Togger Blue
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Just a hunch, but the first post on page 1 of this thread may have something to do with it? *Admittedly, it doesn't specify any particular action.
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HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £30m
I think a fine would always have been suitable for a single technical breach (as opposed to smashing through dozens of rules over multiple periods as other have been charged with) if found guilty.
But need to be careful saying that because it’s a stadium/tax issue that caused our breach therefore it shouldn’t be a sporting penalty, it can’t work like that. We are committed to the stadium costs, those costs are unavoidable, so if we wanted to not breach the limit we should have reduced player costs (by far the biggest other outlay we have), in which case a sporting penalty would be more appropriate. You can always work it back and just say a club should have spent less on players/wages, regardless of what individual item breaks the camels back. If the rules permit sporting penalties, then it doesn’t matter what you spent your money on, you could always have just spent less on players and ensured compliance.
But as above I don’t think it would ever come to points anyway.
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
Unfortunately it's not really relevant as far as I can see as it refers the the independent regulator being brought in in the future. It won't be deciding our current case.
Azza
Player Valuation: £80m
This has absolutely nothing to do with us.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
It would be very strange if the most current instruction and guidance on penalties issued before a penalty was given wasn't considered.
Having said that, given that we should be presumed innocent, we should be expecting zero penalties from this.
Marc bolan
Player Valuation: £5m
25 october day of reckoning 
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
If the old regulator - the PL - is being superseded they're not going to go from that to a weaker regulatory system. That would be ridiculous.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
So points deductions aren’t gonna be given out by the independence regulator, but can they still be given by the FA and Prem?
And from what I read its also a proposed idea and not been brought in?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Just read the Sky report: I'd say there's an element here of speaking softly and carrying a big stick in terms of them saying "the PL still call the shots on sanctions but if they want our advice we'll give it".
We'll see.
not really
last time fa gave a points deductions was to boro for failing to play a game or something in 1997
fa will be too scared to go up against us
We are aware that this is the proposed regulator that is not yet operational and has nothing to do with our woes, right?
PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
This is terrible news for those desperately hoping for a strict punishment of one small tax line breach. The independent commission is even less likely to go out of their way to do something the proposed long term regulator doesnt recommend for even serious cases.
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