At the end of October, the Telegraph reported that Everton FC was threatened with a twelve-point deduction because the Liverpool club had violated the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules. In mid-November a severe penalty (deduction of ten points) was actually imposed. But the Toffees’ nightmare doesn’t seem to end.
“Everton Football Club is both shocked and disappointed by the decision of the Premier League Commission,” the Liverpool club said in an official club statement on November 17th. It is the opinion that “a completely disproportionate and unjustified sporting sanction was imposed”. So it’s no wonder that the club wants to appeal to the Premier League, as they say.
By deducting ten points, Everton FC slips from 14th to 19th place in the table and thus slips deep into the relegation battle.
Previously, the club had a poor return with 14 points from twelve league games. After the penalty, the Toffees only had four small points left, and they are now level with bottom club Burnley FC at the bottom of the table. However, Burnley has the worse goal difference.
The English football league accuses Everton of having made financial losses of 347 million euros over the past three years. The permitted limit is only 120 million euros. The league had already announced in March that it was conducting closed-door proceedings against the club.
But that may not be enough: According to information from the Daily Mail, the club is threatened with the deduction of a further nine points. As part of Financial Fair Play, the clubs Burnley, Leeds United and Leicester City, which were damaged by Everton’s excessive investments, are to make claims for damages of 110 million euros each to Everton.
If the claims are found to be legal and Everton cannot pay them, it would probably cause the next points shock.
The entire statement from Everton FC regarding the deduction of the first ten points verbatim:
Everton Football Club is both shocked and disappointed by the Premier League Commission’s decision.
The club believes that the Commission has imposed a completely disproportionate and unjustified sporting sanction. The club has already announced its intention to appeal the decision to the Premier League. The appeal process will now begin and the club’s case will be heard in due course by an appeal committee appointed in accordance with Premier League rules.
Everton insists the information it provided to the Premier League was open and transparent and the integrity of the process was always respected. The club does not accept the finding that it failed to act in good faith and does not believe that this was an assertion made by the Premier League during the course of the proceedings. Both the severity and severity of the sanction imposed by the Commission do not fairly or adequately reflect the evidence presented.
The Club will also follow with great interest the decisions made in all other cases relating to the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules.
Everton cannot comment further on this matter until the appeal process is complete.