Fascinating information on these Premier League golf equipment.
With Burnley, Leeds and Leicester now set to sue Everton for tons of of tens of millions of kilos.
This follows the Premier League appointed impartial fee discovering the Goodison membership responsible of breaching FFP guidelines and deducting them ten factors.
The Mail say that their sources have informed them that Leeds, Leicester and Burnley met on Friday for talks and reaffirmed their plans to sue Everton.
They’re set to sue for a complete of £300m, £100m per membership, that quantity a tough estimate of what every of Burnley, Leeds and Leicester imagine they’ve misplaced by being relegated to the second tier.
The Mail in October 2023 revealed that Burnley, Leeds and Leicester had written a joint letter to the Premier League, notifying them of their plans to sue if / when Everton had been discovered responsible. The three golf equipment got here collectively after Everton escaped relegation by solely two factors in Could.
The Mail now reporting:
‘Leeds and Leicester had been relegated to the Championship and Burnley have leant their help as they continue to be satisfied that Everton’s spending breached monetary guidelines the earlier season after they had been relegated.
The three golf equipment have repeatedly expressed unhappiness that the Everton case was not handled final season and are understood to really feel much more strongly following the responsible verdict, as a factors deduction within the earlier marketing campaign would have relegated them.
The [Premier League Everton] punishment brightens the highlight on each Manchester Metropolis and Chelsea and a former advisor to Metropolis tweeted that the precedent set by Everton’s penalty may later end in relegation for each Premier League heavyweights.’
That is the factor, the Premier League lastly punishing a membership that has blatantly damaged the foundations, it has for positive opened up a can of worms, an actual Pandora’s field of potentialities.
All of us (STILL!) await the Manchester Metropolis verdict and punishment (IF discovered responsible) after the Premier League charged them with 115 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN) breaches of the foundations in February 2023. Fairly wonderful that they’ve eluded justice all of those years for the laughable means they’ve ran their membership however after this Everton punishment, simply what is going to Man Metropolis get IF discovered responsible??? As The Mail report additionally says, hopefully Chelsea will even discover their luck eventually operating out as properly.
As for in the event you discover the thought of Everton being pressured to pay compensation to different Premier League golf equipment to be a fantastic one, suppose once more.
No ensures of what’s going to occur BUT after West Ham cheated the system with the Tevez factor and stayed up in 2007, Sheffield United finally acquired £18.1m from the Hammers.
A decade and a half later and soccer inflation having been astronomical in that point, then Everton ending up having to pay £100m (or extra!) to every of Leeds, Leicester and Burnley, doesn’t sound fairly so outlandish.
