As the rules are meant to stop financial doping and clubs becoming insolvent through living beyond their means, I fail to understand the punishment too.
Everton have clearly suffered from poor signings and being unable to move them on due to covid. they have made some cut backs, have sold a LOT of talent and are clearly not insolvent or having an unfair advantage.
this is excessive and strange precedent to set
Everton walked so City and Chelsea can run 😊
There are a lot of people who dont understand the situation. Everton have the third LOWEST net transfer spend in the window over the past 5 years. The premier league litteraly told everton they had not broken any rules earlier this year. The prem is panickng about an independent regulator and trying to look tough.
EPL trying to look tough now cause they’re getting lubed up to it up the ass from Citeh
A 10 point deduction for losses exceeding allowable losses by 19.5M related to stadium expenses… Seems fair, doesn’t it. We broke the rules, but we could’ve just said f*ck the rules and had much more losses, but instead we sold Richy and others for half of what we could’ve to try and mitigate losses.
If this doesn’t get reduced to at most a 6 point deduction I will be absolutely furious
You absolutely could not have sold richarlison for double what u got. U already robbed spurs blind at 60million
It’s not what he’s worth to spurs, it’s what he was worth to us
Yeah but he was never a 120million player. He was decent for you but come on, that would have made him the most valuable transfer in prem history at the time, by a fairly large margin
Oh no, not saying that. Certainly not a £120m player, but absolutely a £60m player in terms of his value to us
I think you miss the point here
Be really interesting to see what happens with Man City and Chelsea. I think it’s hard to have a real opinion on this until we see the fallout from that. More severe punishments for those and this might feel okay. If they get similar or lower punishments then it’s a kick in the teeth. Feel for the Everton fans if I’m honest.
Premier league is corrupt AF
This happening to Everton is like beating a limping horse. Its not like they massivley exploited the rules to gain advantage. They just shit with money
I hope this is just the first piece to fall. The punishment may not seem as excessive if they punish City and Chelsea proportionally to Everton. I just have very little faith that they will. Hope to be wrong
What a fkn joke.
This is all nonsense.
Everton were found to be evasive and “less than frank”, mislead the Premier League and were found, specifically, by the Independent Commission to have breached the requirement for upmost good faith (an aggravating feature for the IC).
On the other hand, the notion that Everton’s cooperation was mitigation was dismissed by the IC.
Feel is the correct term
They ate being justly punished in a way that wont relegate them.
If its the start then so be it.
Man Citeh and chelsea also need to be docked points.
Maybe auto relegation. Would be a fun championship
It’s cold in Liverpool tonight. Minus 10.
Frankly if a team attempts to deceive the league they ought to be automatically relegated.
Everything else is a footnote.
I’m less concerned with what Everton did than the fact that they tried to hide it. There needs to be the utmost transparency and if a club is evasive, if they are dishonest, hit them hard.
In this case the punishment means nothing anyway. Everton are not getting relegated and they weren’t winning shit anyway. Pretending it’s an outrage is ridiculous.
I like Carragher but this article is silly. Everton’s accountants overbook their books. It’s right the FA/Premier League finally start punishing these clubs and letting them get away with it with tough penalties.
It Everton think their punishment is harsh, think of Luton’s -30pt deduction. That was certainly a disgrace as that effectively relegated them before the season started.
Just got to see now if the Prem. League have testifies the size of watermelons to punish city. Not through finance as they can afford it. I’d give them a double relegation so show the authority actually means business.
Can’t wait for the point reduction for Chelsea and man city. 17th place will be alot easier for Everton then!