Ive seen reports Leicester, Burnley and Leeds are reportedly planning on sueing Everton.
Now seeing West ham Got sued by Sheffield UTD for Tevez, is there a strong possibility Everton could be actually sued and those teams win a court case?
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I loved Southampton jumping on board with this too.
I’m sure Everton building a stadium and overspending on players cause Southampton to be the worst run football club in England for 2/3 years. Did part of Everton’s budget include paying the wages of Nathan Jones, Ruben Selles, Che Adams, Theo Walcott, Jan Bednarek and Gavin Bazunu?
This is absurd. By this logic, if Man City were to get point deducted or relegated this season, should Arsenal (or Liverpool) sue because the points deduction didn’t occur in previous seasons and cost them the title?
Lawyers will certainly have a go. Whether they succeed or not, that’s up to the courts. It has been done before and it’s usually expensive.
You have to be able to make a case that the cheating directly screwed you over, so if you’re complete crap and would have been relegated anyway it’s a long shot.
They should be compensated in some way. There needs to be more clear disciplinary sanctions though.
Didn’t a few clubs attempt to sue Derby the other year when they had points deducted
That would be fun. Also in the unlikely event that City get punished could they be sued by everyone who missed out on titles, cups, CL football
It would be a true popcorn moment.
City would be looking at hundreds of millions, if not billions of damages. Imagine if City had pushed you down a spot and you lost £1m a season, that’s 20 clubs X £1m per year. That’s before relegation, missing out on European football, TV money/competition prize money. Even if City settled, it would push them into financial oblivion and probably administration - if FFP hasn’t already.
City have to win, losing even small will destroy them.
It’s hard to put an exact number on the value of being in CL, but it’s easily 10s of millions, more depending on how far you go. For the last 13 seasons, they’ve qualified for the CL, thereby pushing another team out. You’ve got to be looking at £500m in liability there.
That’s all with the massive caveat that a court has to find this sort of suit to actually be viable. It’s a difficult case to make, and I wouldn’t want to go up against City’s legal team.
Suing them for what?
Bringing in players in a way outside the FFP rules, resulting in an unfair advantage over teams that were relegated. The idea would be to sue for the presumed lost revenue of not being in the PL.
I read the commission report pretty sure its stated that this wasn’t a deliberate accounting error(fraud) and that they didn’t get any onfield sporting advantage
So if they sue I’d imagine that report will be evidence
Whilst not being able to quantify the extent of the sporting advantage, the IC recognised that one “must be inferred”.
“sporting advantage will have been enjoyed for each of the seasons on which the PSR calculation was based – in this case, because of Covid, four seasons”
While they accept Everton’s breach was not deliberate but that is likely irrelevant for compensation purposes where the sporting advantage and causation is established.