Profit and Sustainability Rules: Premier League points deductions here to stay for financial breaches

6 comments

1. Good, what’s the point in being able to pay your way out of an offence relating to breaking financial rules?

   I agree the rules need some refinement but to change them in the way that was proposed seemed absolute insane and just gives blank cheque clubs no consequences.

2. There should be a proportionate and proportional approach depending on controllability of losses etc 

3. >*”Sports News* has been told there was support for such a scheme [fines instead of point deductions] among some large and small Premier League clubs, **but the majority – and the Premier League itself – are adamant that idea is a non-starter**”

   The knives are out.

4. Leicester won the league, won the FA Cup a few years later, sell a star player almost every summer and still fell foul to this.

   It’s so transparently obvious that these ‘rules’ are here to stop so called little teams getting ideas above their station.

5. Financial penalties for organisations that can afford to ignore financial rules has always been ridiculous. Man city’s eufa fine after initial punishment was reduced to 10m had Sheikh Mansour, reaching down the back of his sofa to find enough change to pay it. Points and/or retroactive punishment is the only thing that makes sense.

6. Finally a good decision made on a football related topic!