Can someone sum of what Everton have done wrong? I mean by what numbers have they spend too much?
You’re allowed to lose 105m over 3 years, you can lose more than that and have add backs for certain items, women’s team, covid et al. It’s actually a bit more nuanced than that but that’s basically it.
Almost all of the league would have breached without covid add backs, there is an established 9 point max now I think(from precedent, which they ignore anyway..). We’d have been better off if nobody was allowed covid loses.
Everton’s first breach was 19.5 million the second breach was 17m or so. Forest breach 35m lead to a 4 point deduction before the appeal Everton got 10. Double the breach 40% the punishment. So both of Everton’s total loses similar to Forest after 1. Note they are not building a stadium. Forest could only lose 83m or something due to them being in the championship, presumably this rule exists due to the high risk of them going down, smaller revenue streams via an established premiership team etc.
Everton’s net spend over the last 5 years is 18th 20m or so Forest 200m Burnley 80m.
Everton’s wage budget is 10th. Given Everton’s larger wage budget than Burnley, the spend on transfers and players is similar over the last 5 years to Burnley. Leicester city had one of the highest wages budgets in the world 14th or something at peak. They’ve been cheating for years.
Make what you will about claims of sporting advantage from the above given Everton are building the stadium + lose of revenue from the Ukraine war and increased costs of stadium materials and interest etc.
The main issue is Everton had a league finish average of 7th from 2005 to say 2017/18. They were a threat to the top 6. When in Europe they tried to buy a squad and had a couple of bad seasons + bad signings. This resulted in us getting into p&s issues compounded mainly by Ukraine war and the stadium tipping us over the edge as well as player X. This is what the rules are designed to do. Similar happened to Leicester. If you believe they’re there for any other reason than to maintain a cartel well, I disagree strongly, like I would just ignore anyone who didn’t think that.
We have had to sell our players cheap to absolute garbage like Newcastle who are clearly financially doping. Gordon Richarlison et al. Much like Forest and Leicester selling cheap.
If you want to find any logic or consistency in their approach to sanctions you can’t. It’s all based on Forest & Leicester grassing whilst cheating and threatening to sue, scapegoating and avoiding a regulator whilst pretending they’ll do something about Man City & Chelsea. Corrupt as anything you will see hence Newcastle owners approval and sponsors.