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Everton club statement:

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In January 2024, Everton were charged by the Premier League for breaching the permitted Profit and Sustainability thresholds for the assessment period ending 2022/23.

The matter was referred to a Premier League Commission, which has today announced Everton will receive an immediate two-point deduction. While the Club’s position has been that no further sanction was appropriate, the Club is pleased to see that the Commission has given credit to the majority of the issues raised by the Club, including the concept of double punishment, the significant mitigating circumstances facing the Club due to the war in Ukraine, and the high level of co-operation and early admission of the Club’s breach.

Everton remains committed to working collaboratively with the League on all matters relating to PSR but is extremely concerned by the inconsistency of different commissions in respect of points deductions applied.

The Club would like to place on record its thanks to the Fan Advisory Board and other fan groups for their submissions during this process, and to all Evertonians for their ongoing patience and unstinting support.

The Club and its legal representatives have begun the preparations to appeal the Commission’s decision.

No further comment will be made at this time.

Everton given an additional two point deduction for breaching PSR.

That's got nothing to do with luck or the moronic notion that referees are favouring United. The main reason that United are 6th is because Chelsea and Newcastle have been just as shit. United, Chelsea and Newcastle have been so shit that even 5th place is out of reach for all 3 clubs with 7 games left to play (8 games for Chelsea).

16 hours ago, House Cambodia said:

Is Potter on the way?

Heh

United have been on the end of a shit load of poor refereeing decisions all season. This belief that United have somehow had so much luck throughout the season is a delusion of the biased.

2 hours ago, House Cambodia said:

Was Hendo captaining them?

Is Potter on the way?

Heh

Hendo is injured so wasn't in the squad.

Can we all laugh at Ajax? They got obliterated 6-0 by Feyenoord today. Their heaviest defeat ever in the Eredivisie.

Also want to give a bit of praise to Kambwala. He was thrown into the deep end (only his second start in the PL) with all of our CB injuries but stepped up today and put in a solid performance.

20 minutes ago, Mexal said:

Pretty weak penalty. He actually never touched him and Elliot’s trailing leg hooked him. I’ll take the dropped points but have no idea how VAR didn’t even spend a second on it like they do every Havertz tackles.

https://x.com/nonewthing/status/1777009151543013715?s=46&t=S9IqtHPqFubF4uuPMeayuA

It looked a bit soft (like the Madueke one against Chelsea) but I'm not a fan of VAR getting involved unless it is blatantly obvious that something is or is not a penalty. Both of these cases are neither stonewall nor a case of 'definitely not a pen'. For 50/50 calls like these two the on field decision should stand. Unfortunately for United the on field decision was for a penalty both times.

Kompany has shown his naivety this season. Poor game management and the team are constantly giving away daft goals all in the name of a doomed philosophy when Burnley would have been much better served by a more pragmatic approach.

On a separate note, from what I've seen of Burnley this season, Trafford is not ready for this level. He's still a young keeper so there's every chance that he can improve but right now Kompany was right to (belatedly) drop him as he should not be the starting keeper for any club at Premier League level let alone getting England call ups.

United have conceded more shots in 2024 than any other side in Europe's top 5 leagues.

For the season to date, only Sheffield United have conceded more shots than United in Europe's top 5 leagues.

Ten Hag has failed tactically this season. He's obviously able to set the team up to be more compact (like last season) so he is deliberately choosing to play suicide-ball this season and apparently sees nothing wrong with that.

Newcastle are just going to increase Saudi Arabia affiliated sponsorships over the next few years which will increase their spending power. Related party sponsorships aren't really being strictly enforced by either UEFA or the Premier League. Newcastle already have a squad good enough to at least compete for the top 4 or 5. The only reason they aren't this season is because of the injuries.

ETA. this thread should probably be merged with the one PG opened yesterday. There's three open football threads right now. @mormont

22 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said:

He, at the end of last season I thought of which the teams that were still in the PL were likely candidates for relegation based on their performance and Chelsea was coming to mind among a few others, except I knew they couldn't fall because of their budget and pool of raw talent they acquired with that money. This season is proving me right. There is enough raw talent in the team for them to keep afloat, because otherwise as a team they might be relegation fodder. And there is nothing happening this season to give me hope for the next season. And if they get penalized with points deductions they might be serious trouble.

It's pretty unlikely that they will be getting a points deduction and even if they do, it's unlikely that the points deduction will be big enough to put them in a relegation battle. There's also been other reports saying that Chelsea should be okay on the PSR front. They will also most likely sell some academy players before June 30 - according to reports, Newcastle intends to make Lewis Hall's move permanent so that's already going to be £28m + £7m in add-ons for Chelsea.

1 hour ago, Corvinus85 said:

By the way I'm not sure how to feel about this thread title. But my life philosophy leans towards the it's better to laugh than cry mentality.  

Look on the bright side. Chelsea's problems, much like United's, are like 'first world problems'. Sure, both have been shit relative to their expenditure but neither are in any real danger of facing serious consequences like relegation or going bust and both have still won a few trophies which is still better than the vast majority of football clubs.

Arsenal winning would be the least objectionable outcome. I'd still have City as marginal favourites for the title though purely because they've repeatedly proven their ability to hold their nerve in tight title races.

Yeah, it's not just purely down to goals conceded. Arsenal snuff out opponents attacks better than any other side in the league this season. Opponents don't tend to create much against them. Think if Arsenal had a keeper who was close to Alisson's level they'd be under 20 goals conceded.

Arsenal's defence this season could be the difference maker for them. Last season they still had the tendency to concede a few soft goals but this season the entire defensive unit has been immense (clearly the best in the league).

Lascelles has ruptured his ACL. Expected to be out for 6-9 months.

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Annoying to concede so late on but on the balance of play, we were extremely fortunate to escape with a point. Brentford absolutely battered us.

The penalty was bullshit but Phillips has once again put in a disaster class. He's been nothing but a liability for West Ham.

2 hours ago, Corvinus85 said:

So then Rodgers or Benitez back to Liverpool? 

Ruben Amorim was next on their list according to reports.

Good man.

Hopefully the Leverkusen squad doesn't get picked apart.

12 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

I'm not a big fan of creepy weirdos, but this is fucking ridiculous. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68679506

Rubiales could also be in hot water over the deal to play the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia. Spanish police raided RFEF offices last week as well as a property owned by Rubiales. Seven people have been arrested and five others (one being Rubiales) are currently under investigation as part of a corruption, improper asset management and money laundering investigation.

It didn't make much sense to me that Southgate calls up Branthwaite but doesn't give him a single minute of game time across two friendlies. Stones even went off injured early on against Belgium and Dunk was having an absolute 'mare. Could've brought Branthwaite on in the 2nd half at least.