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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: DMnumber4 on February 23, 2018, 01:31:25 pm
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Leicester City have agreed to pay the Football League £3.1m to settle the league’s long-running claim that the club breached financial fair play rules when they made a £21m loss in their 2013-14 season. Leicester won promotion from the Championship that season after their owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who owns Thailand’s duty-free company King Power, had invested more than £100m since his 2010 takeover, and subsequently they won their unlikely Premier League title in 2016.
More here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/21/leicester-settlement-football-league-ffp (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/21/leicester-settlement-football-league-ffp)
Taking points from teams who were playing within the rules - financial doping at it's finest.
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It's not something that is going to be remembered when people talk about the freak season of 15/16
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The three releagated clubs should split that as compensation
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The only way to stop clubs breaking financial fair play rules is to relegate them.
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The three releagated clubs should split that as compensation
You could equally argue a case that Derby County, finishing third, should be compensated, perhaps even more so given the amount of money they would have got from being in the PL and missed out on.
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The three releagated clubs should split that as compensation
You could equally argue a case that Derby County, finishing third, should be compensated, perhaps even more so given the amount of money they would have got from being in the PL and missed out on.
Good point
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Yes I do but it is water under the bridge now move on, not do us any good moping about it
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No I don't. And if I did, I'd call myself a Sheff United fan. They still bang on about Tevez
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I don't see it as a fit and proper punishment for flouting the rules and giving themselves an unfair advantage. Is a retrospective punishment a deterrent? I think not.
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No punishment at all, frankly.
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A retrospective punishment should always involve a hefty fine - one to be distributed to grassroots and non league. Plus a points deduction at the very least, at the very minimum 10, and in some cases, like this one, a relegation for the following season - which has the extra bonus of ruining all joy for the current season :evil:
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It's not punishment at all. They need to look at club's accounts ongoing in a season .......Man Citeh massively flouted the rules a couple of seasons ago and got away with it.
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Leicester have just posted record profits;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43262780
So the "fine" is just small change to set against the gains made from cheating.
Football is a corrupt industry, concerned mainly with preserving the opportunities to game the system.
Sporting ethics, becoming a contradiction in terms these days!
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Didn’t Bournmouth bends the financial rules to get themselves into the PL as well.
They too will have reaped the rewards.
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But everyone f**king fawns over them as "the little club that could", conveniently ignoring that, and the fact that they were/are backed by Russians who are hardly short of cash.
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Sheff Wed just posted a loss of £20.8 million to add to a £9.8 million loss last season.
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Other Championship clubs in the region - Sheff Utd lost £5.6 million, their accounts will look healthier next year with increased crowds and Championship money. Barnsley made a profit of £13.2 million wiping out any previous debt carried over. Leeds have not filed their accounts yet but last year they lost £8.9 million, i think this years include the Woods money.
Its a tough league to consolidate in if thats Rovers goal, fast becoming the Premier League 2 with some of those figures.