Everton deducted 10 points for PSR breach (reduced to 6) | Deducted further 2 points for second breach

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There’s not many in their squad they’d get a decent fee for.

Id imagine Pickford, Branthwaite, Onana and Garner would all get a decent fee for them.
 

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I completely understand the need for clubs to spend but Forest signed over 40 players!

It's just greed, stupidity and a careless attitude towards signing players.

Fulham and Bournemouth were promoted at the same time as Forest and managed to stay up whilst complying with the rules.

I actually think Forest have got off incredibly lightly with only 4 points being taken off.
Fair point.
 

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They will appeal again and the FA will reduce it by 4 points again, meaning that Everton will be given two extra points.
 

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Why are they fecking with Everton and giving them points deductions in succession, constantly disrupting their season instead of compiling all they have on them and hitting them at once?

This being levelled at them during an ongoing season is ridiculous when it's a number run on so many charges.
 

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Wait till they’ve relegated City first
Not the point deductions as such, just the constantly shifting goalposts during the season, especially now during the run-in.

I feel like these types of things should be applied and stuck to at the start of the season, rather than them just being slapped on randomly whenever decisions happen to be made, and then reviewed and changed afterwards.
 

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Expected it was going to be a further 2. Our statement despite saying we are going to appeal feels a bit weird and quite weak if you're going to.
 

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Why are they fecking with Everton and giving them points deductions in succession, constantly disrupting their season instead of compiling all they have on them and hitting them at once?

This being levelled at them during an ongoing season is ridiculous when it's a number run on so many charges.
This is why the whole thing is a mess and I feel like people are ignoring the psychology of these decisions and ongoing processes in a season. Not just on us but other teams around us.
 

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This is why the whole thing is a mess and I feel like people are ignoring the psychology of these decisions and ongoing processes in a season. Not just on us but other teams around us.
It's scandalous. Especially with the elephant that is so big it can't even fit in the room.
 

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This is why the whole thing is a mess and I feel like people are ignoring the psychology of these decisions and ongoing processes in a season. Not just on us but other teams around us.
We've had this discussion before.

What time is there to appeal these if they do it between seasons?

The other solution here is you completing a season, thinking you've survived relegation, then being docked 12 points and dropping into the Championship with no time to appeal.
 

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The authorities actively trying to influence the relegation battle

We truly are in the sports entertainment era of football
 

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Prediction time. They are only oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on about 15 charges including obstruction and non co-operation. They will get a 40-point deduction, in the 2025 season. They will be fined 90 million euros. Past trophies will not be stripped.
 

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Two points is a weird number.

They really just plucking shit out of thin air.
The whole thing has been handled terribly (although I can't get on board with suggestions it should be done between seasons).

The Premier League came up with a methodology to calculate the deduction, and landed at 10 points. The independent panel rejected that methodology, but still arrived at 10 points.

Two separate bodies arrived at 10 points being fair, using separate methodology, then Everton appealed and it was reduced to six, which presumably involved a third methodology. Forest were then deducted four points and Everton a further two for what I believe are effectively the same offences. Who knows how they arrived at those figures.
 

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Prediction time. They are only oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on about 15 charges including obstruction and non co-operation. They will get a 40-point deduction, in the 2025 season. They will be fined 90 million euros. Past trophies will not be stripped.
Ooo like it.

Prediction: they are oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on the majority of charges, but will claim significant mitigation. They will get a 5 point deduction, an apology from the FA/EPL/Prime Minister and the UK will sell an aircraft carrier to the UAE.
 

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Prediction time. They are only oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on about 15 charges including obstruction and non co-operation. They will get a 40-point deduction, in the 2025 season. They will be fined 90 million euros. Past trophies will not be stripped.
If they give them the sentence before the season ends, then the points deduction will be for this season.
 

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We've had this discussion before.

What time is there to appeal these if they do it between seasons?

The other solution here is you completing a season, thinking you've survived relegation, then being docked 12 points and dropping into the Championship with no time to appeal.
The problem is mainly that there is no seemingly definitive way of how to deal with things. Either in the season or in the summer. It doesn't matter because each IC is interpreting the rules differently for both different clubs and the same club. It's just stupid and I don't think it's fair on anyone.
 

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Very weird and feels really harsh on Everton. I feel they should juts take it and move on though.

They will stay up anyway and they have some winnable games against Chelsea, Brentford, Luton and Sheff Utd.

Take the 2 points, draw a line under it and move on.

If City don't get spanked with a big deduction in the next season then it's a farce.
 

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Prediction time. They are only oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on about 15 charges including obstruction and non co-operation. They will get a 40-point deduction, in the 2025 season. They will be fined 90 million euros. Past trophies will not be stripped.
It will be something ridiculously low like this. The FA are too weak to make an example of City, and they are too worried about the knock on effect of stripping titles and so on. Makes a mockery of the whole process. Teams like Newcastle can potentially go out and over spend, knowing the next season they will face a points deduction and accept than and factor it in to a rebuilding season.
 

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Shouldn't they get a higher amount of points deducted for a 2nd breach?
As if you get lower points off each time, you might as well rack a few up.
 

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The problem is mainly that there is no seemingly definitive way of how to deal with things. Either in the season or in the summer. It doesn't matter because each IC is interpreting the rules differently for both different clubs and the same club. It's just stupid.
This is an issue distinct from the idea that it's bad to do it mid-season though, which is something you've said a few times now.

As I said to you last time we discussed it, the psychology aspect may well be present even if you did it between seasons. Everton get docked 12 points for next season and appeal. That appeal process doesn't get completed until the season is underway and it's suddenly hanging over everyone's heads. This also ignores the obvious unfairness to the side that gets relegated in Everton's place the season before.
 

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This is an issue distinct from the idea that it's bad to do it mid-season though, which is something you've said a few times now.

As I said to you last time we discussed it, the psychology aspect may well be present even if you did it between seasons. Everton get docked 12 points for next season and appeal. That appeal process doesn't get completed until the season is underway and it's suddenly hanging over everyone's heads. This also ignores the obvious unfairness to the side that gets relegated in Everton's place the season before.
There are roughly 80 days within the summer to sort things out.
 

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Prediction time. They are only oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on about 15 charges including obstruction and non co-operation. They will get a 40-point deduction, in the 2025 season. They will be fined 90 million euros. Past trophies will not be stripped.
Yes. They do this to make a point that the system works. Essentially, they are setting precedent. Then they will slap City with one bad season and a bad transfer window as punishment. A small price to pay for winning however many titles they have won. City can then carry on business as usual for the next 15 years, until the next time. Or unless they introduce the "luxury tax", which simply prevents City from breaking the rules in the first place allowing them to do as they please. The government, and by extension the Premier League, will do whatever it takes to protect City. No one is risking a diplomatic incident over a football club.
 

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Prediction time. They are only oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on about 15 charges including obstruction and non co-operation. They will get a 40-point deduction, in the 2025 season. They will be fined 90 million euros. Past trophies will not be stripped.
City will be found not guilty but fined £200k, and given a five point deduction, for bringing the game into disrepute and for failing to provide evidence when requested.

Then the new rules for a luxury tax will come into force and City will suddenly disclose that Haaland is actually paid an extra £50 million a year through what used to be a subsidiary, but is now being paid by City themselves.
 

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Haha seem like the FA are just using Everton as the crash dummy at this point...seeing what happens and cleaning it up afterwards.
 

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Shouldn't they get a higher amount of points deducted for a 2nd breach?
As if you get lower points off each time, you might as well rack a few up.
Think it depends on the severity of the breach. Like if you are cauught breaking the law and sentenced to 10 years for murder, it shouldn’t automatically follow that you get 12 more years added for committing a second breach through jaywalking.
 

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Shouldn't they get a higher amount of points deducted for a 2nd breach?
As if you get lower points off each time, you might as well rack a few up.
It being a second deduction in the same season probably why they went the opposite way here.
 

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Shouldn't they get a higher amount of points deducted for a 2nd breach?
As if you get lower points off each time, you might as well rack a few up.
In its written reasons the independent commission accepted the club's arguments for mitigation in relation to the fact the club has:

  • Already been deducted points this season
  • Loss of club revenue because of the suspension of a sponsorship deal with Russian company USM
  • An early admission of guilt
...
 

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So we have now establish a pattern of four points on average per infraction. That means City will be deducted 452 points. 114 points in the Premier League next year, 138 points in the Championship the following, then 138 in League One again. That´s 390 points off. I guess that means they can fight for immediate promotion from League Two, if they win all 46 matches against a 62 point deduction. I mean that´s what will happen right. :nervous::rolleyes:
 

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Bloody child's play. Either give them the deduction at the end of the season or for the start of the next season (probably the former to make it fair on teams like Luton)

Deducting points then giving them back then deducting shows they don't know what they're doing.
 

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This is a mess, if Everton appeal and stay up by a point. Then whatever relegated team will probably take action against the league and possibly even Everton.

The whole thing is a farce, it should be dealt with off season and with no right to appeal or change once the whistle blows to start the first game of the season.
 

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The problem is mainly that there is no seemingly definitive way of how to deal with things. Either in the season or in the summer. It doesn't matter because each IC is interpreting the rules differently for both different clubs and the same club. It's just stupid and I don't think it's fair on anyone.
The logical thing for me is they just say any points deductions come at the start of the subsequent season and all appeals have to be wrapped up by season's end. It should be quite a rare occurrence now it's being enforced and also it shouldn't take long at all to go through an appeal, it's really binary if you did or did not breach the cap and then they just need to settle on a standard points deduction/punishment. There'll be an initial wave of clubs getting caught now and then it'll just die off unless they make the punishment pathetic and clubs willingly breach it.
 

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Prediction time. They are only oiling the machinery with this fecking around with Everton/Forest. Manchester City will be found guilty on about 15 charges including obstruction and non co-operation. They will get a 40-point deduction, in the 2025 season. They will be fined 90 million euros. Past trophies will not be stripped.
So they will still probably finish higher in the league than us.