10-04-2024, 10:27 AM
(10-04-2024, 07:44 AM)DR Forest Wrote:(09-04-2024, 08:39 PM)Jean_claude_killy Wrote:(09-04-2024, 06:15 PM)jurgen rober Wrote: It wasn't just the promotion bonuses that the EFL allowed but also the £12m+ for Covid, which lets face it is a realistic figure, not £2.5m as allowed.
I did a back of the fag packet calculation and we lost over 16m in gate money during Covid, and yet a claim for 12.5m, which was originally passed by the EFL, was rejected by the PL
There’s those moving goalposts again….
If you were in the EFL you can only have £13m a year losses, the PL £35m.
If you were in the EFL you can only have a ‘set fee’ of £2.5m for covid (despite having attendances 25-30k a game) but in the PL fill your boots almost 100 times more.
Oh, and when you go over your measly limit, it’s ‘more’ than the Everton breach so the potential for a high points deduction is greater.
I don’t know about the promotion bonuses but if they were ratified in one league and not in the PL then there’s clearly a case that the transitional arrangements for promoted clubs aren’t equitable.
Jeez, even wassy should be able to see it’s a stacked deck! Lol
In other news, Kieran maguire continues to prove what a self-important publicity seeking pr1ck he is.
Apparently now has said our wages were out of control and we have lost all sympathy for our breach.
From whom exactly, Kieran?
Once again selective accounting ignoring the overall facts in the case- ie having a legacy championship squad of wages who weren’t good enough, plus limited time to attract a whole new squad for the PL (after the playoffs) plus not being established and without a core squad to attract new players there’s clearly a salary premium that was required. I’m not justifying some of the waste or coin tosses that came up tails not heads, but FFS this guy boils my piss. The salary total will be much more in line next season once the chaff has been fully shaken out.
I’d love to see someone like Darren Fletcher invite him for a high profile interview and ambush the c**t. Rant over!
The losses for our first year back were 34.5m which is inside the limit - Maguire and Fletcher can say what they want about being out of control, the facts speak for themselves.
The reason we have breached the rules is down to the PL not accepting issues previously ratified by the EFL.
If those issues have been ratified incorrectly then it is down to the EFL to punish us and not the PL.
Then there is the notice we were given which only rubbed salt into the wounds