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I was just wondering, in light of FIFA fining chelsea £450 k ish for a completely different offence how does our fine of £40 Million by the EFL stacķ up against how other clubs have been fined?...I hear mention of Brum being investigated for FFP breaches and I think I heard that Man City are being looked at by EPL (might be wrong on last bit)...but has amy other team been fined anything near 40 Million or more?
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Sorry, Sleeping Giants- a bit on a sidenoted, but how close are BIrmingham from getting punished for bringing in Pedersen on illegal terms, or something like that ? Anyone else in the know concerning this one??QPR
Best team in the world
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SWINDON TOWN'S FULL FINE LIST
Late for match report: £250
Late for coach report: £250
Late for report/training/gym/pre-activation: £20
Late for meetings/videos: £20 + £5 per minute
Late for a pre-match meal: £50
Late for injury assessment/not turning up: £25/£50
Not having lunch with team after training: £20
Refusing to eat lunch/pre-match: £50
No flip flops in shower: £10
Urinating in shower: £10
Not having an ice bath after training/game: £20
Leaving training kit on pitch: £10 per item
Losing water bottle: £10
Losing GPS unit: £2,500
GPS non-read: £50 training/£100 game
Phones going off in team meetings: £50
Phones in treatment room: £10
Phones in gym area: £25
Losing physio equipment: Replace
Dirty boots for matches: £50
Failure to attend community appearance: 1st offence 50 per cent, 2nd offence 75 per cent, 100 per cent
Not reporting an injury: £100
Not reporting an injury and unable to train next session: Subject to staff
Not wearing the correct attire (matchday/trips): £50
Not attending a team night out: £250
Not singing on initiation: £100
No birthday cakes: £20 + cakes next day
Failure to return physio equipment when asked (24 hours' notice): £20 + £5 each day
Asking for strappings etc once pre-activation has started: £20
Not attending media duty in correct club attire: £20
Failure to attend specialist/scan appointment: £100
Wonder what QPR's fines are ?
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to be fair, we didn't really get fined £42m... our punishment was dressed up as that, but the real fine was in the region of £15m, more than half of the punishment was the conversion of debt into shares (which we had been doing in any case) and the scheduling of the debt repayment over 10 years without interest, means that it's really less than the advertised £20m when expressed in today's money.Originally posted by Sleeping Giants View Post
that said, it's a big punishment and bigger than anything that any british club has ever had.
sheff weds are probably also in the brown stuff, their accounts for the last couple of years don't look too great.
if you have time, the article below is worth a read.
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Thanks for replies. I'm not aware of any club being punished financially more than our fine....seems a bit wrong when you think bigger clubs doing same thing but the biggest fine (that ai know of) is handed to a relatively small club...almost like there was some sort of agenda but eh we did do wrong so can't really complain.Comment
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it's kind of difficult... two things to bear in mind:Originally posted by Sleeping Giants View Post
1 - the rules we broke (and tbf we knowingly broke) were probably the harshest rules in world football at the time.
2 - bigger clubs (like man city, psg etc) have richer owners, higher profiles, bigger global reach etc and much more leverage.
i don't honestly think that there was an agenda against us (and even if there was, imo we didn't exactly help ourselves by spending way beyond our means, when we knew what the rules were). the bigger problem is that there wasn't a clear, common understanding of what financial fair play meant (fair play implies a common unbiased playing field - ffp doesn't do that, it does basically the opposite - it entrenches advantage to clubs with higher incomes) and that the rules were not consistent between the various competitions.
qpr were the wrong team in the wrong place at the wrong time... and that's typical for us.Comment
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