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Leicester City PSR breach.

Boz33 said:
Be quite interesting to see the punishment for what may well be over 100m quid overspend.
If it’s nominal, like 8 points and reduced to 6 on appeal, I’d say that’s a green light to massively overspend for teams, and work on the principle that those points can easily be made up by having the better players available from the over spend to win more games
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Forest have already set the precedent other EPL clubs will follow. All Leicester have to do is comply with the investigation, help out where they can and the EPL will reduce any points deductions accordingly. It'll go from a significant encumbrance to their league survival, and a decent preventative for others to repeat their errors, to a dainty slap on the wrist.
 

ThreadBumper said:
Forest have already set the precedent other EPL clubs will follow. All Leicester have to do is comply with the investigation, help out where they can and the EPL will reduce any points deductions accordingly. It'll go from a significant encumbrance to their league survival, and a decent preventative for others to repeat their errors, to a dainty slap on the wrist.
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Forest were a much smaller scale over spend, something like 20m?
Leicester look to be in at around 100m.
Now depending how Leicester fair will give far better indication of what the penalties will be for a decent overspend
 
Boz33 said:
Be quite interesting to see the punishment for what may well be over 100m quid overspend.
If it’s nominal, like 8 points and reduced to 6 on appeal, I’d say that’s a green light to massively overspend for teams, and work on the principle that those points can easily be made up by having the better players available from the over spend to win more games
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The PL have confirmed that if clubs deliberately do it then the punishments will be more severe. How they go about proving deliberate intent is another matter though.
 
David M said:
The PL have confirmed that if clubs deliberately do it then the punishments will be more severe. How they go about proving deliberate intent is another matter though.
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And that’s the key, proving it. Clubs could always say they anticipated offloading players to balance the books but bids didn’t come in
 
Fleagle said:
Fair point.

Although this is punishment for their useless cheating between 2020 and 2023 at the end of which they got relegated. I’m not sure anyone has ever managed that particularly impressive double of a PSR breach and relegation. It’s a breach and promotion that’s the more frequent issue and I don’t think the EFL has managed to do anything about their successful effort last year. But it’ll be a start.
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That’s the Brendan Rodgers effect
 
Boz33 said:
And that’s the key, proving it. Clubs could always say they anticipated offloading players to balance the books but bids didn’t come in
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But it's the same in retail. Shops get product and hope to sell it on to customers. They don't, they take the loss. Enough losses and they could go out of business.

Allowing a club to say "We spent heavily as we thought we'd sell x player for £yy million. But it didn't happen" is a terrible argument. But it sums the EPL perfectly. Utter clown show.

Whole top level of the game is now more a trip around the Monopoly board. But nobody gets to "Go To Jail". And the accountants are the only ones assured of keeping their jobs.
 
ThreadBumper said:
But it's the same in retail. Shops get product and hope to sell it on to customers. They don't, they take the loss. Enough losses and they could go out of business.

Allowing a club to say "We spent heavily as we thought we'd sell x player for £yy million. But it didn't happen" is a terrible argument. But it sums the EPL perfectly. Utter clown show.

Whole top level of the game is now more a trip around the Monopoly board. But nobody gets to "Go To Jail". And the accountants are the only ones assured of keeping their jobs.
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Football isn’t like any other business really, if it were no one in their right mind would buy a club. Owning a club basically consists of making yourself poorer year on year except for a few clubs. And the only way of making a decent wedge is when you sell it to the next sucker that wants to make himself poorer😂
 
What so basically some other body which does have jurisdiction will put the charges back on and they dick about for another year of challenges and appeals?
 
HoffTTM said:
What so basically some other body which does have jurisdiction will put the charges back on and they dick about for another year of challenges and appeals?
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Sounds like a winning plan to delay being hammered at some point.
Every year they dodge it there’s every chance rules will be altered again, crackers really. It should be the leagues a whole doling punishments so there’s no escape by dropping out or being promoted to the prem
 
jarrowdiamond said:
So because they were in the EFL at the time they were charged they've got away with it, very weird.
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It's even more opaque than that. Leicester are relying on the time gap between the end of the season (when they ceased to be a PL member) and their year end to claim that the PL can't determine whether or not the breach occurred while they were a PL club, on the grounds that an indeterminable element of their accounting loss is attributable to the 6 weeks or so of the 22/23 accounts year when they weren't in the PL. Frankly, from an accounting standpoint, that's bollocks; it wouldn't be beyond the skill of a half-decent forensic accountant to unpick the transactions and come up with a proper revised accounting figure. They've got away with this on the most technical of technicalities, and the review panel have fallen for it. It stinks worse than a month old box of kippers.
 
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