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Everton hit with a -10 point deduction by the EPL, via the recommendation of an independant commission.
Obviousl they are going to appeal this, and they do have grounds. After all, the situation has been brought about by the pandemic initially and then the war in Ukraine, as the UK government suspended all Russian business and investment in the UK, which killed a £200m deal that Everton had with a Russian company who were going to be the sponsor (indl naming rights) for the new stadium that Everton are building.In light of all this, Everton had been working with the EPL with regrds these matters and had pretty much a zero spend in terms of signing new players over the last 2 transfer windows as a result.
The penalty seems high because of this, but alswhen Portsmouth went into administration in 2009/10 they were only docted -9 points, when so many people lost jobs and all sorts. So to be pegged even more than that seems odd in a historical context, but there are reasons, it would seem,
The EPL and the independant commission was set up for not just this matter, but to show that the game is being governed properly and independant of requiring government oversight, but also as there are much larger and much more damning cases in the wings being lined up against Man City and Chelsea. Everton were open with the EPL about their situation while both of those clubs have refused to co-operate at all, and if found guilty on all counts those 2 not only face points deductions but potentially direct relegation. But even if that isn't the case, at this point there is zero interest for those clubs to be open with the EPL about their situations (or any other club in future for that matter) instead of obfuscating and delaying, when seen whats happened here, even when someone does comply with the EPL.
Think the EPL is also being hardline about this Everton case in that they were shown to be weak and ineffective when the news broke about the Euro Super League, that Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man U & Spurs had conspired to defect to leave the EPL to be part of that competition and only backed down by fan pressure by the fans of their own clubs in concert with the overall backlash against them. They got out of that scot free and without a single scrap of punishment by the EPL, simply by paying a nominal combined £22m 'to the goodwill of the game'... that amounts to less than £4m on average across those 6 clubs, which is a proverbial drop in the ocean at those clubs.
So the EPL taking this current stance I suspect is in a large part both to show they have teeth and depending on how they proceed in those aforementioned cases against Man City and Chelsea in mind and the potential for even bigger penalties to come in those.
The curious thing to note about this Everton decision also is, they only just narrowly avoided relegation last season, so will be interesting to see the reaction of Leicester in partucular, but Leeds also, both of whom were relegated and that 10 point deduction happening last season would've seen Everton finish below them both (but still ahead of Southampton).
There are a lot of moving parts here, but don't think we've heard the end of this.
Obviousl they are going to appeal this, and they do have grounds. After all, the situation has been brought about by the pandemic initially and then the war in Ukraine, as the UK government suspended all Russian business and investment in the UK, which killed a £200m deal that Everton had with a Russian company who were going to be the sponsor (indl naming rights) for the new stadium that Everton are building.In light of all this, Everton had been working with the EPL with regrds these matters and had pretty much a zero spend in terms of signing new players over the last 2 transfer windows as a result.
The penalty seems high because of this, but alswhen Portsmouth went into administration in 2009/10 they were only docted -9 points, when so many people lost jobs and all sorts. So to be pegged even more than that seems odd in a historical context, but there are reasons, it would seem,
The EPL and the independant commission was set up for not just this matter, but to show that the game is being governed properly and independant of requiring government oversight, but also as there are much larger and much more damning cases in the wings being lined up against Man City and Chelsea. Everton were open with the EPL about their situation while both of those clubs have refused to co-operate at all, and if found guilty on all counts those 2 not only face points deductions but potentially direct relegation. But even if that isn't the case, at this point there is zero interest for those clubs to be open with the EPL about their situations (or any other club in future for that matter) instead of obfuscating and delaying, when seen whats happened here, even when someone does comply with the EPL.
Think the EPL is also being hardline about this Everton case in that they were shown to be weak and ineffective when the news broke about the Euro Super League, that Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man U & Spurs had conspired to defect to leave the EPL to be part of that competition and only backed down by fan pressure by the fans of their own clubs in concert with the overall backlash against them. They got out of that scot free and without a single scrap of punishment by the EPL, simply by paying a nominal combined £22m 'to the goodwill of the game'... that amounts to less than £4m on average across those 6 clubs, which is a proverbial drop in the ocean at those clubs.
So the EPL taking this current stance I suspect is in a large part both to show they have teeth and depending on how they proceed in those aforementioned cases against Man City and Chelsea in mind and the potential for even bigger penalties to come in those.
The curious thing to note about this Everton decision also is, they only just narrowly avoided relegation last season, so will be interesting to see the reaction of Leicester in partucular, but Leeds also, both of whom were relegated and that 10 point deduction happening last season would've seen Everton finish below them both (but still ahead of Southampton).
There are a lot of moving parts here, but don't think we've heard the end of this.
