6 + 2 Point Deductions

[blulouie]

City charges are not too dissimilar if not actually worse...over inflated sponsorship deals to ensure they meet the financial regulations...without those crazy commercial deals they got, especially at the start of everything, they wouldn't have been able to build the squad they have today.

Agreed
But they are dealing with an Oil state here , they want this kicked into the long grass.

Much easier to punish a club that's not a threat to the Snake 6 but big enough to make a statement.

Nothing will happen to City , it will be tied up for years.

 

[Bebeto]

Agreed
But they are dealing with an Oil state here , they want this kicked into the long grass.

Much easier to punish a club that's not a threat to the Snake 6 but big enough to make a statement.

Nothing will happen to City , it will be tied up for years.

Well it is apparently scheduled for next season and could take a couple of years then before any final judgement...with appeal and everything, it is true that it could be a few season yet...

 

[Gallaeo]

They've made this up as they've gone along and have painted themselves in so many corners its unbelievable.

But as theyre judge And jury they wangle themselves out of their own impasses - So the original punishment will stand - to show that they weren't wrong in the first place.

They will then try to claw back some positive PR by...tempering justice with mercy or some such bubbles...and suspend 5pts

Because they're vindictive they'll hope we step over the line with our next set of accounts
...which  Is possible.
Then hit us with another 10 plus the suspended 5.

Surely with the 2019 accounts going and sales,in 2023 theres no,way we can breach again?

 

[Goat]

Surely with the 2019 accounts going and sales,in 2023 theres no,way we can breach again?

Whilst there is a degree of scare mongering, IF and thats a huge IF, IF 777 on paying "20m a month" to keep the lights on, that does not scream financially secure football club.

Transfer spending is only a small aspect of the spending this football club does.

I think a few will get a shock when our latest accounts are published.

 

[blulouie]

Well it is apparently scheduled for next season and could take a couple of years then before any final judgement...with appeal and everything, it is true that it could be a few season yet...

There's nothing in law to say they can't charge them with 1 of the 115 charges right away.
They are advocating fast tracking anyone breaking the rules.
Here's their chance.

Will they ?.....I bet they won't.

 

[degsy]

Surely with the 2019 accounts going and sales,in 2023 theres no,way we can breach again?

Whilst there is a degree of scare mongering, IF and thats a huge IF, IF 777 on paying "20m a month" to keep the lights on, that does not scream financially secure football club.

Transfer spending is only a small aspect of the spending this football club does.

I think a few will get a shock when our latest accounts are published.

That's my whole point - nobody knows...but the PL have had some sort of oversight for a time now, they must have a gist of our general direction.
Remember that one set of Auditors did a runner - or was that just coincidence?

iirc, this whole thing works on a rolling 3yr deal.
We've been pinged for yrs A, B & C.

Year A drops off
it's now yrs B, C & D.
We Think year D Should be better and put us under...but if we've...yet again...claimed for something their accountants don't like,
...and its all about opinions here, their opinion seems to automatically Trump ours - mainly because they want it to.
Because being the 'Designated Scape-Goat' our face doesn't fit.

Hope for the best - but expect the worst seems to apply

 

[riddick]

I don't understand how we can't appeal or...ANYTHING if this isn't changed. The Premier League decided to make a random punishment that ONLY affects us. No other team. And they apporved the sanction in the MIDDLE of the process. In what world is this not damaging the reputation of the club? Screw the league, sue them outside of the scope.

 

[MrGrumpy]

That's my whole point - nobody knows...but the PL have had some sort of oversight for a time now, they must have a gist of our general direction.
Remember that one set of Auditors did a runner - or was that just coincidence?

iirc, this whole thing works on a rolling 3yr deal.
We've been pinged for yrs A, B & C.

Year A drops off
it's now yrs B, C & D.
We Think year D Should be better and put us under...but if we've...yet again...claimed for something their accountants don't like,
...and its all about opinions here, their opinion seems to automatically Trump ours - mainly because they want it to.
Because being the 'Designated Scape-Goat' our face doesn't fit.

Hope for the best - but expect the worst seems to apply

It’s actually 4 years as the covid year got added in

 

[TGW89]

Apparently we can’t go to CAD or whatever it is City went to, what ever the outcome of the appeal sticks

Maybe Everton can't but WE can. Let's say one of the newbs completely werewolfs, we hit a slump, get relegated and the club goes bust all because of this 10 pts - no stadium, no extra jobs in the North Liverpool area, no Euro 2028.

Exactly what the PL want, right? Surely, the City of Liverpool can absolutely ruin the Premier League in a class action.

 

[msb]

They can't do that...it will be far too obvious. If one charge is 10 points, city with 115 will have to be at the very least 115 points...one point for every charge...and even if they manage to get reduced to let say 80 charges, it will still probably be 80 points you would think meaning dead certain to be relegated.

In the adjudication for us, it was 6 points for guilty and then 1 point per £5M rounded up.

so 80 guilty charges is 480 point deduction plus the penalties added.

never going to happen.

 

[hallamblue]

There's no chance City will be penalised. They've set a date to stop people citing the unfairness that while we get a points deduction they get nothing. Chelsea are a different matter as they aren't linked with the Middle East. I can see them getting a points penalty, maybe at the end if the season when it won't affect them.

 

[mahermi1]

Surely with the 2019 accounts going and sales,in 2023 theres no,way we can breach again?

Supposedly over the last five years we are in the bottom three nett spend, if it happens again we might as well fold the club.

 

[NathDogg]

Don’t really care what happens to the scab 2 involved in P&S breaches, they have been cheating the system along with the other 4 cartel members for years and sod all has been done. P&S and FFP was them scumbags pulling up the ladder on the rest of us to stop competition.

However, What pointing out the possible punishments for city and Chelsea does highlight, as some of you have already done superbly in this thread, is the absolute mockery and absurdity of the level of our punishment and points deduction in relation to the breach/offence.

I still don’t know what they were trying to achieve by hitting us so hard, aside from maybe showing they can be tough and manage their own cesspool without regulation, but it’s backfired spectacularly but all they have done is highlighted that they are completely corrupt and inept.

 

[blueloon]

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[pfim]

City charges are not too dissimilar if not actually worse...over inflated sponsorship deals to ensure they meet the financial regulations...without those crazy commercial deals they got, especially at the start of everything, they wouldn't have been able to build the squad they have today.

They’re worse. Shadow contracts to managers and players implies they knowingly broke the rules.