Project Zeus
Steve Chettle
I’ve read the full report now.
4pts to me is fair and shouldn’t be appealed.
We only got mitigation based on early notification/plea and excellent co-operation and that’s saved us two points from being a full six.
Our other mitigations are crap, particularly when our finance guy Bonser notified the club in Sept 2022 and then again in Dec 2022 that we would breach unless we sold.
We instead spent more in January and left the Johnson sale too late. They’ve decided we ended up having sporting advantage for the entire 2022/23 season.
Take the -4pts, and try and win a few games.
The whole "sporting advantage" angle is completely devalued by the fact that we were allowed to lose £39m less than every other PL club. And that's without the fact that we were also the only club who hadn't competed in the Premier League recently and needed to buy a PL squad. We wouldn't have breached if their rules actually encouraged fair sporting integrity.
It basically boils down to how unfair the rules are versus our conscious breaking of those rules.
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