The punishment for losing too much money is getting kicked out of the place they’d be able to recoup the money? Why would a transfer ban not be a better fit for the crime?
Because a club going into administration completely fucks the whole division and pyramid. You can’t just have a team stop playing half way through the season.
So the punishment is as severe as it is to prevent teams out spending their means.
Everton are a little unlucky cos 200m of their losses was from a Russian investment firm having to bail out of sponsorship rights on their new stadium, becuase the Premier league introduced sanctions at the start of the Russian Ukraine war (same reason abramovich had to fuck off).
The crazy thing is that if the club has taken a loan for the stadium from a bank, they’d be fine. But because they took it from the owner, they’re fucked.
Well it makes perfect sense when you look at it i the way it was designed.
FFP was concocted by by your ‘Super Clubs’ to ensure that the likes of City, PSG and Chelsea didnt ever break the Status Quo again. If the PL didn’t enforce FFP, your ‘Super Clubs’ would have left the PL and made their own league.
So no club can now transition up (watch out Newcastle) and the PL and FL only act when they are told to act or forced to act. At least 3 other clubs in the PL have broken FFP in the last few years and they have not been punished, however, and here is the kicker for Everton fans, your club has broken FFP AND SHOWN SOME AMBITION. This has ruffled feathers as with a potential new 60k stadium and new American money they pose a threat. The PL lapdog has been told to bite and so it has.
So in this sense, FFP is working perfectly by fining and deducting points when it goes against all logic of protecting the football club.
I mean a transfer ban and a cash flow management plan would only make sense if you wanted to protect the club.
Lets be honest its not really a punishment. One win and they are back out of the relegation zone. A ten point deduction in either of the last two seasons would have done them but I highly doubt it will mean they are relegated.
It’s a slap on the wrist and at the end of the season they will probably just finish a few places lower than they would have done anyway. It’s mostly a financial penalty as they will lose some prize money but that’s all.
The punishment for losing too much money is getting kicked out of the place they’d be able to recoup the money? Why would a transfer ban not be a better fit for the crime?
Because a club going into administration completely fucks the whole division and pyramid. You can’t just have a team stop playing half way through the season.
So the punishment is as severe as it is to prevent teams out spending their means.
Everton are a little unlucky cos 200m of their losses was from a Russian investment firm having to bail out of sponsorship rights on their new stadium, becuase the Premier league introduced sanctions at the start of the Russian Ukraine war (same reason abramovich had to fuck off).
The crazy thing is that if the club has taken a loan for the stadium from a bank, they’d be fine. But because they took it from the owner, they’re fucked.
It’s fucking stupid.
That’s hirrifying
Well it makes perfect sense when you look at it i the way it was designed.
FFP was concocted by by your ‘Super Clubs’ to ensure that the likes of City, PSG and Chelsea didnt ever break the Status Quo again. If the PL didn’t enforce FFP, your ‘Super Clubs’ would have left the PL and made their own league.
So no club can now transition up (watch out Newcastle) and the PL and FL only act when they are told to act or forced to act. At least 3 other clubs in the PL have broken FFP in the last few years and they have not been punished, however, and here is the kicker for Everton fans, your club has broken FFP AND SHOWN SOME AMBITION. This has ruffled feathers as with a potential new 60k stadium and new American money they pose a threat. The PL lapdog has been told to bite and so it has.
So in this sense, FFP is working perfectly by fining and deducting points when it goes against all logic of protecting the football club.
I mean a transfer ban and a cash flow management plan would only make sense if you wanted to protect the club.
Lets be honest its not really a punishment. One win and they are back out of the relegation zone. A ten point deduction in either of the last two seasons would have done them but I highly doubt it will mean they are relegated.
It’s a slap on the wrist and at the end of the season they will probably just finish a few places lower than they would have done anyway. It’s mostly a financial penalty as they will lose some prize money but that’s all.