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Birmingham facing points deduction/

Birmingham facing points deduction/

This will be put off for years and they will get away with a paltry fine as per QPR and Villa when the authorities eventually get round to dealing with it.
 
Pilchard;n3418492 said:
This will be put off for years and they will get away with a paltry fine as per QPR and Villa when the authorities eventually get round to dealing with it.
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Yep, clear violation of league laws and the EFL don’t take a strong stance.

Its okay to cheat provides you’ve got decent lawyers
 
I have no quarrel with Birmingham but they will get away with it because they are a "big" club. Would we be treated as leniently as I expect they will be? These clubs will never learn until some big clubs start to be properly penalised. As a result football inflation will continue at a disgusting and non sustainable rate leaving clubs like ours struggling to keep up
 
Didn't they deduct 40 points off Luton or something thus relegating them? Amazing how Leicester, Leeds et al never got anything like that punishment, can't think why!
 
Proper fans should have a national protest, games being completely screwed over something needs to change. Greedy self serving bastards.
 
Aitch;n3418580 said:
Not sure how accurate this guide is, but it shows what clubs owe to the banks or their owners. We lie midtable inbetween Leeds & Birmingham owing 30 million, presumably all to TH

https://oddschanger.com/football-new...s-banks-owners

Stoke are top owing 122 million, followed by Blackburn at 112. Rotherham are debt free
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And Blackburn have just splashed out some more cash today, taken from BBC Sorts site:
Blackburn have completed the permanent signing of Nottingham Forest's Ben Brereton, with fellow striker Danny Graham agreeing a new contract.

Brereton, 19, initially joined Rovers on loan in August but has now signed until 2022 for a fee worth up to £7m.
 
When I read a report like this I ask myself : why did they ignore the regulations ?

Someone suggested that the owners believed their rule-breaking would be overlooked. Still risky though.

Then I read this : "
  • Blues were then sixth in the Championship, under then manager Gary Rowett, who was sacked two months later, with the club outside the play-off zone only on goal difference."
Is this an attempt to repeat what Bournemouth did about 2 years ago ? Basically, to hell with the rules - if we aren't in the Football League any more, they can't touch us.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46765090
 
I don't understand why there isn't a standardised punishment that you automatically get if you break these rules. Surely teams would be more deterred from over-spending if they knew it was an automatic 15 point deduction that couldn't just be argued down to a fine, put into effect next time they're in the league if the premier league remains a safehouse for rule breakers.
 
Automatic - yes, agreed.

I can't quite recall what has been decided will happen to Bournemouth.

At one point, I read that their relegation from the Premier League would make them a L2 team as a punishment !
 
As an update, I see no sign that the L2 punishment received any traction.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36189779

This article says that Bournemouth was fined 7.6m and that was for increasing their staff wage bill by 20m.

The 20m was spent so that the club could receive an even greater amount as a member of the Premier League. The fine doesn't seem proportionate and hardly a disincentive.

Maybe there is still a further sanction to come ...

Edit: the fine was negotiated down to 4.75m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.F.C...l_Fair_Play_violation_during_promotion_season
 
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Rothwellwhite;n3418622 said:
Didn't they deduct 40 points off Luton or something thus relegating them? Amazing how Leicester, Leeds et al never got anything like that punishment, can't think why!
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30 points.
 
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