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Not a chance this succeeds.
Brooo, it was 20m over three years and the prem then signed had to sign of on our signings from the on. Its fucking disproportionate beyond comparison
Daily Fail
Wish they would unite like that in taking a stand against FA and corrupt refferes
I can’t wait to see how much man city get sued for for prem title prize money and UCL qualification money over the last decade.
I welcome this
This doesn’t compare to what city have. Still waiting on that issue which really should be addressed immediately with all those charges.
That’s ridiculous. The losses are taken over a 3 year period for a start
This is stupid. If anything, Everton were a more successful club before breaching FFP rules. Spending money in violation of the rules did not cause them to avoid relegation, arguably poor spending got them into the relegation fight to begin with.
Interestingly enough, there is a precedent for this.
After Sheffield United were relegated below West Ham in the 06/07 season, they sued The Hammers since West Ham’s “signing” of Javier Mascherano and more importantly Carlos Tevez was in clear breach of third party ownership rules in the Premier League. West Ham finished 3 points above Sheffield United with an inferior goal difference. Tevez literally scored the winning goal in a 1-0 victory on the final day of the season to keep West Ham up.
Sheffield United originally sued to try and have West Ham relegated instead of them, but failed. So instead they sued West Ham for monies lost by no longer being in the Premier League, and West Ham settled out of court for £20m. One can only surmise that the reason they settled out of court was because they expected they would probably lose if it went to court.
Thus, Burnley, Leeds and Leicester have a reason to think they might be able to financially benefit from suing Everton. However, realistically only 1 club could have avoided relegation had Everton had their points deduction sooner, and Burnley were relegated a season before Leeds and Leicester. Last season Leicester finished above Leeds, so really only Leicester should be the one suing Everton. As for Burnley, if they want to claim that Everton should have faced their points deduction in the 21/22 season then that’ll be interesting.
Happened with Middlesbrough and Wycombe suing Derby county also. The terms of the settlement were never revealed there. Middlesbrough suing was especially egregious as they sued because Derby made the play offs instead of them, they weren’t even guaranteed to go up if Derby hadn’t finished above them. They didn’t sue Villa either who also broke the rules but because they were promoted were then out of the EFLs reach.
Steve Gibson decided to take the easy route and sue a club on the brink of liquidation who didn’t have the funds to fight back.
The problem is they have to argue that Evertons’s league position improved as a result of their breach. Considering how badly the club has been mismanaged it’s a difficult task. For West Ham it can clearly be shown that their signing of Tevez in particular resulted in them staying up.
The more clear-cut thing with the West Ham case is that it was to do with specific players who played in games and influenced outcomes. When Everton have been charged due to things like incorrectly attributing interest payments on a loan to build their stadium, it’s not such a strong case for them having gained a sporting advantage which influenced results to the point that teams were relegated unfairly.
This is correct. Although Tevez scoring on the final day was irrelevant to WHU staying up, as a draw was sufficient for them. But they did settle.
if it was settled out of court, is there legal precedent? seriously, i dont know how this works.
This seems like the equivalent of a penalty and red card. It’s the FA or PL’s job to punish and regulate so that clubs don’t sue each other like this.
That’s how it should be but particularly when it comes to premier league clubs they don’t do what they’re supposed to. Teams in the championship and below do get punished regularly and more swiftly for breaking the rules. Realistically I don’t think any team is getting close to £100mil from Everton.
And still nothing on city
If it was upheld, then if City are ever charged, every team that lost out on cups or titles those years would have a case. He’ll every team in the CL who got thrashed by City but who ended up 3rd in group would have claims.
Won’t happen, but that would be awesome…
City will be doing well to get all 115 claims dismissed.
It’s only going to take 1 year of FFP breach to get multiple claims, £70m for missing out of CL. £30m for Europa, position money, possible subsequent year claims.
How much should we sue City for then? Billions upon billions? Fucking stole the league for years!
They all know if they successfully ruin Everton the chances of them getting back up/staying up goes up massively lmao
Leicester got a FFP fine in 13/14, the year they got promoted to the PL. Surely by this logic there are 23 other teams in the Championship they owe money to.
We paid it still broke even won the league and dipped how can they moan😂