NFFC Financial Talk

[wassy04]

Sorry guys but think some comments are veering towards the Derbyesque Mel Morris is innocent type.

P&S is looking at a rolling 3 years in isolation. If your argument about sporting advantage applied then by the same logic Everton could claim their squad cost is a fifth of Liverpool’s and they should be able to spend £800m to be able to compete with their neighbours.

We theoretically had the same allowable loss as any other promoted team and by breaking that allowable loss we could have gained an advantage on them.

Im not denying the rules are unfair or that the system is hopelessly skewed towards the bigger teams. However that is the monster we created back in 1993 and unfortunately the monster we are aiming to be a  part of.

Don't know of many claiming we are innocent. What I see is people criticising what appears to be an instant point deduction and feeling it is incredibly harsh (I am one of those). Plenty of other punishments can be dished out including fines, transfer bans etc.. depending on the severity of the breach which would also show enforcement of rules and act as a deterrent to others.

Chelsea for example have taken the piss spending a billion in a short space of time. That is so much worse than what we or Everton have done so I would expect them to receive a harsher punishment when the time comes

Interesting you group Everton in with us now as before our charge the majority if not all fans were demanding Everton be punished for a similar offence to us (myself included). I still believe Everton's was worse than ours but they are in the same ballpark.

I agree with SM, the rules were there we chose to not follow them for whatever reason, regardless of how flawed they are. If our case was the rules are unfair then we are in trouble! 

I did read yesterday they voted in the new rules for 2025 onwards with a transition year to match UEFA's rules. 70% of turnover can be spent on wages or something like that.