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Financial Fair Play investigation

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Walken said:
Destroying clubs for years because of the current owners, sometimes permanently? You think thats the correct course of action and the EFL have it right?

Keep your fingers crossed though, guess loads more, throw a few financial words in and hopefully you get your wish and we get obliterated, hundreds lose their jobs, the new stadium goes under and the city misses out on desperately needed jobs and revenue.

Yes the EFL have it right.
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Remember all the rhetoric coming from the pundits about the scab 6 and how any punishment is unfair if it punishes the fans. Will they all be rushing to our aid?
 
Mr Popodopolous said:
This is a test case but I think the EFL have the right idea tbh.

What would you propose as fair? This is truly uncharted ground...the rules are harmonised ironically the PL are keen on this state of affairs.

I don't see that any PL clubs should be dealt with any more lightly than a Championship club, do you? If found guilty obviously.
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Championship doesn't make £3billion a year based on the teams in it.

The minute you start hitting teams like the EFL does, that's when said teams begin to leave to a super league, and you ain't a £3billion a year brand.
 
Villa_Fan said:
You are correct, there is nothing similar to with the DCFC and EFC issues. The bottom line is DCFC knowingly and deliberately falsely accounted for the sale of the ground and used amortisation methods which are not allowed in England. They did this to try and cheat the system and they tried to deceive the FA. They were caught cheating and rightly had the book thrown at them. EFC was not trying to cheat, EFC just overspent and got too many bad / old players and a string of managers that didn't work out for them. EFC were stupid/unlucky, DCFC were premeditated cheats
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Absolutely spot on.

Let's hope the punishment (if any) refelects that too.
 

allen said:
Yeah. No chance there's a takeover while that guff is going on.
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As stated I am reliably informed the deal is done.

My understanding of this investigation into us is more to do with window dressing to satisfy some outstanding queries at a time when the Premier League is petrified of government intervention following the recent White Paper into the game. There's no chance of any material penalty this season in terms of a points deduction.

Rick Parry the EFL Chair has made clear their revised funding deal is all but done and is itself a cover for the Premier League to present the football world as one happy family. The top clubs are literally giving away a billion pounds to create that illusion.
 

Johnnytotal said:
What punishment did the scab 6 get ?
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Their punishment was a revamp of the Champions League qualification rules that makes it easier for them to qualify if they miss out on the top four.

Actually not a lie by the way.

Two additional places are reserved for the two countries with the highest coefficient score in current season. This season, fifth place in the Premier League and second in the Dutch Eredivisie would go direct to the Champions League group stage.
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davek said:
Surely all the following accounts will demonstrate is the trajectory of here the club is going after 2021/22...which will be a reduction in the club's losses...just as next years accounts will show a further reduction.

I think that trajectory should be allowed to give context to how the club operated in 2021/22.

It'd be asburd if that wasn't given weight.
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It would suit us right now, but it would just be something every single club would do.

Spend like it’s going out of fashion and then claim “We overspent, but look, we are heading on the right trajectory now”

They won’t give any traction to that at all.
 
Walken said:
Destroying clubs for years because of the current owners, sometimes permanently? You think thats the correct course of action and the EFL have it right?

Keep your fingers crossed though, guess loads more, throw a few financial words in and hopefully you get your wish and we get obliterated, hundreds lose their jobs, the new stadium goes under and the city misses out on desperately needed jobs and revenue.

Yes the EFL have it right.
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I fully agree with the sentiment but the football world has changed with the amount of money involved. When u see Man Utd with a value of 5Bn or 6Bn it will be money that determines the outcome rather than what is morally correct. Burnley lost about 100m due to relegation and has threatened to sue the PL because of the alleged breaking of the rules by Everton. I think the outcome of this will be based on how the PL can remove any potential liability from themselves. The best way for that is for the PL to find EFC has not broken any P&S rules. But, if there is clear evidence of rule breaking they will hand down whatever punishment gets them out of the firing line imo
 

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