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West Brom Face Potential Points Deduction

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  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 5,384
    All this talk about points deduction etc...I mean, are we all sweetness and light regarding this...🤔
    You’re allowed to lose 39m over 3 championship seasons (some things don’t count to this like spending on academy and stadium I believe). We should be fine but talk of us spending £18m this summer like I’ve seen some say is utter bollocks as then we’d be right up against the line in year 3 
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,647
    Ridiculous that there are so many potential changes to the points per team in the last few games of the season - it could affect how teams approach a game or games. Imagine finding out you only needed to draw to stay up when you thought you needed to win, so instead of playing for a draw, you went for the win, only to lose and get relgated
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 16,250
    All this talk about points deduction etc...I mean, are we all sweetness and light regarding this...🤔

    EFL will probably give us a 10 point deduction as punishment for blowing so much money on utter guff this summer.
    I'm surprised they haven't given every team a points deduction so as not to appear nasty and unfair to those lovely Wendies.
  • All this talk about points deduction etc...I mean, are we all sweetness and light regarding this...🤔

    EFL will probably give us a 10 point deduction as punishment for blowing so much money on utter guff this summer.
    We have already given ourselves a 10 point deduction in any case for signing all the utter guff
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,327
    Taken from the BBC article: "If found guilty, West Brom face a points deduction which, according to the EFL's sanctioning guidelines, would be applied this season and potentially mean they drop into the relegation zone."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjd8997l1zno
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 48,103
    I think there are two issues which are significant for West Brom. Firstly the guidlines state the points reduction should take place in the season after the breach which is this season and secondly and more importantly Leicester and Sheff Wed have had points deducted this season. The problem here is Leicester who could be disadvantaged if the reduction is not applied for this season as their deduction has been. But it is so late in the season with an almost certain appeal it has become a real mess for the EFL.
  • siblers
    siblers Posts: 2,258
    Get them deducted and get them relegated

  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,373
    WSS said:
    Technically it has to be this season doesn’t it? I can’t imagine Leicester or any club relegated and less than six points behind West Brom would be too happy otherwise.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 27,373
    The possibility that all 3 relegated teams could be teams that have had points deductions is farcical and should really bring government attention. More needs to be done to make clubs live within their means. The owners clearly don’t care about points deductions. 
    Maybe with a proper football regulator…
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 700
    ... wage costs can get out of control, especially with dead wood that you can't get rid of, because their wages are so high.
    Uh oh! We could be in trouble then.

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,524
    The argument is that if they have been overpaying players and exceeding FFP  THIS SEASON, then surely they have cheated the other teams in the division this season and any points deduction or fine should be this season not next? I am sure Wendies and Leicester will both see that as fair considering their fate.
    We suffered at the hands of Wendies a few years ago when their deduction was delayed to the following year.
    This.

    In 19/20 we lost to Sheff Wed when Stephen Fletcher scored a last minute goal. A player they bought for millions & probably paying him a big monthly salary. Something they really couldn't afford. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,524
    CafcWest said:
    Taken from the BBC article: "If found guilty, West Brom face a points deduction which, according to the EFL's sanctioning guidelines, would be applied this season and potentially mean they drop into the relegation zone."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjd8997l1zno
    Reading the original article it says there are other penalties that could he applied instead of a points deduction, such as a transfer embargo. 

    My thoughts are that it's too late for the EFL to apply any points deductions this season so will apply them next year and/or will give them a transfer embargo of some sort.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,496
    edited April 13
    What was our loss for last season?  £16m-odd wasn't it?  Will need to rein that in to avoid over £39m in 3 years maybe.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,928
    What was our loss for last season?  £16m-odd wasn't it?  Will need to rein that in to avoid over £39m in 3 years maybe.
    We’ll be in the premiership by then & the EFL can’t touch us.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,759
    Just relegate them automatically, along with Leicester and Sheff Wendy
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,928
    sam3110 said:
    Just relegate them automatically, along with Leicester and Sheff Wendy
    This is the only way clubs won’t over spend and break the rules.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 71,595
    sam3110 said:
    Just relegate Millwall automatically, along with Leicester and Sheff Wendy
    Correction
  • CafcWest said:
    Taken from the BBC article: "If found guilty, West Brom face a points deduction which, according to the EFL's sanctioning guidelines, would be applied this season and potentially mean they drop into the relegation zone."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjd8997l1zno
    Reading the original article it says there are other penalties that could he applied instead of a points deduction, such as a transfer embargo. 

    My thoughts are that it's too late for the EFL to apply any points deductions this season so will apply them next year and/or will give them a transfer embargo of some sort.
    So were they late producing their accounts? If so this should count against them? If not - why has it taken till now for the EFL to find this out and investigate it?
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,351
    Am I right to assume you can as owners throw money at it as a gamble to get promotion (and suffer losses) for a couple of seasons (maybe) but the only way to mitigate that gamble if unsuccessful is to write the debt off / not show it as a loan to the owners?
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 4,250
    What was our loss for last season?  £16m-odd wasn't it?  Will need to rein that in to avoid over £39m in 3 years maybe.
    Losses in L1 don’t apply isn’t it? I thought that was the whole thing of Birmingham and Ipswich huge spending at that level to build upper champ teams outside of the spending controls?

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  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 4,250
    I think there are two issues which are significant for West Brom. Firstly the guidlines state the points reduction should take place in the season after the breach which is this season and secondly and more importantly Leicester and Sheff Wed have had points deducted this season. The problem here is Leicester who could be disadvantaged if the reduction is not applied for this season as their deduction has been. But it is so late in the season with an almost certain appeal it has become a real mess for the EFL.
    Wasn’t wigans deduction in 19/20 also incredibly late in the season though?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,524
    I read on the BBC that losses of £2m over the £39m allowed incur a 3 point penalty and £4m over it's a 4 point penalty, but can be reduced by 1 point if the loses are shown to be decreasing (which in WBA's case they were). 

    So max deduction is likely to be 2 or 3 points.....if any.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 19,039
    I read on the BBC that losses of £2m over the £39m allowed incur a 3 point penalty and £4m over it's a 4 point penalty, but can be reduced by 1 point if the loses are shown to be decreasing (which in WBA's case they were). 

    So max deduction is likely to be 2 or 3 points.....if any.
    As Tesco customers allegedly say " Every little helps ! " 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,619
    Do you think the FA/EFL whoever will give us a six point increase, out of sympathy for the cloggers we've keep ungainfully employed in the past few seasons?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 71,595
    I read on the BBC that losses of £2m over the £39m allowed incur a 3 point penalty and £4m over it's a 4 point penalty, but can be reduced by 1 point if the loses are shown to be decreasing (which in WBA's case they were). 

    So max deduction is likely to be 2 or 3 points.....if any.
    The new WBA owners have been working really hard to bring the losses down, they inherited a real mess from the previous owner.

    2 points might make all the difference though. 
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,246
    Do you think the FA/EFL whoever will give us a six point increase, out of sympathy for the cloggers we've keep ungainfully employed in the past few seasons?
    has anyone noticed JRC's boots look funny, kinda cloggy?
  • What was our loss for last season?  £16m-odd wasn't it?  Will need to rein that in to avoid over £39m in 3 years maybe.
    Losses in L1 don’t apply isn’t it? I thought that was the whole thing of Birmingham and Ipswich huge spending at that level to build upper champ teams outside of the spending controls?
    So maybe that's why we didn't invest too much in the summer as we were a year ahead of our target to get promoted and by the time we won the play-offs it was too late?
  • Point deduction has been our best player this season by a country mile!!!
    Point deduction again ole ole ole........
    I wonder if he can play RWB?
  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 1,738
    What was our loss for last season?  £16m-odd wasn't it?  Will need to rein that in to avoid over £39m in 3 years maybe.
    Losses in L1 don’t apply isn’t it? I thought that was the whole thing of Birmingham and Ipswich huge spending at that level to build upper champ teams outside of the spending controls?
    No they don’t only rule that applies in L1/L2 the Salary Cost Management Protocol (“SCMP”) where there is a maximum wage budget on the squad relevant to your revenue. In theory you can spend however much you want on fees in that league but no sane owners would want to spend millions and millions more than they have to