We’ve been punished enough by the regulations in ways people don’t even recognise.
Never forget how close we were twice to the oblivion of relegation. Many factors contributed to that but it’s impossible to look past being forced to sell James Richarlison Digne Gordon Gueye and replace them with cheap players and loans as a massive reason for this.
The only reason this occurred is because we were trying to comply with the regulations. Whilst the top 6 could just spend to an unlimited budget we sacrificed any opportunity at sporting success in order to comply.
We’ve been punished more than enough already by the regulations which in effect have cost us Ancelotti as a manager, all those players listed above, and put stringent limits on FIVE transfer windows already which will probably end up being 7 by the time we’re back in compliance. A paltry fine is about all I would begrudgingly accept as ‘fair’, any points deduction at all is an utter disgrace and there’d be absolutely no logical basis for a transfer ban either. Clubs should be punished for P&S violations by being limited in what they can spend in future windows and we’ve done that for three consecutive seasons now.
We’ve absolutely decimated the club trying to comply with a set of guidelines that serve no purpose whatsoever and still it’s not enough for them and they want to punish us further.
Honestly what even is the crime? A sporting advantage? The entire league is set up for the benefit of 6 teams who have every advantage possible to them yet despite us spending huge amounts less than all of them we somehow tried to gain a sporting advantage?
This ruling if upheld is the death knell for the premier league, the mist has been removed and finally people can see what I’ve always known: the PL see the other 14 clubs as cannon fodder to just sit there quietly and take their beatings predictably, if one gets out of line they’ll absolutely decimate them, they can’t afford their golden carriage to be rocked one bit.
i don't disagree with much of this, your points of the 6 teams is absolutely spot on, we could be accused of being a negative there, because we were there once, or twice, but i think that would be weak, they must have broken 'the rules'. The Liverpoo's and Man Us or Citys, and / or Chelsea's can't disagree with this surely, and should therefore be vociferously investigated, and therefore charged ?!
But, are we not hamstrung by the flagrant disregard for building a team properly by our owners, particularly with his so called interference? , and not understanding the rules that are in front of us, particularly before we started spending, after having so many years of having almost literally, (or thats how it felt) nothing to fight with in terms of a pot to buy players? (Magaye Gueye anyone). We then had literally loads of money, spent it on 64 Number 10's and various other players, some (very few) very good, Pickford, some not so (many), Keane is an easy example... we just made our own bed in some respects.. don't you think?
All of this may have cost us Ancelotti, but would he still have gone anyway? Gordon i'm really not bothered about, i think he will be a Craig Hignett of the premier league, too good, for the championship, not good enough for the premier league, for those who remember.
However, i am not arguing with what you say per se, and it's easy to pick arguments if you want, i think overall you're right in the sense of the 10 point deduction is wholly wrong, it has to be reviewed and reduced.
To allow it to stand will be just completely wrong.
