Historic sanction in the Premier League, 10 points less for Everton for skipping financial fair play: "It is disproportionate and unfair"

The Premier League has sanctioned Everton with 10 points less for skipping financial fair play. The English league considers that the Liverpool club had exceeded the salary limit during the last three years by more than 20 million euros and has made that tough and historic determination.

This begins with an official complaint from the league that was transferred to an independent commission for study at the beginning of the year, according to the Premier itself in a statement.. The Liverpool club admitted to having exceeded fair play in the 2021/22 season, but denied having done so in other periods.

After a hearing last October, which lasted five days, the commission concluded that Everton had had losses of 124.5 million pounds, around 142 million euros, when the league itself only allows 105 million pounds, 120 million euros. So the commission decided to sanction the club with the loss of 10 points with immediate effect.

This reduction places Everton with 4 points after 12 games, the same as Burnley, which is the last classified. The Liverpool club, which is not going through its best season, could thus be relegated to the Championship this year although salvation, at the moment, is only five points away..

Everton has only been relegated twice in its entire history to the Championship, or English Second Division, the last time that happened was in 1951.

At the club, they do not plan to sit back and have already announced that they will appeal the sanction.. In a recent statement they say they feel “dismayed and disappointed” by a “disproportionate and unfair” sanction..

Everton maintains its innocence and warns that it has been “open and transparent”. They do not at all recognize the accusation that they “did not act with the utmost good faith” and believe that the sanction imposed by the commission is not a “fair or reasonable reflection of the evidence presented.”

In the statement they also mention that they will follow “with great interest” the decisions made in the other open cases related to the Premier League's Profit and Sustainability Rules in clear reference to the investigations that are being carried out regarding Chelsea and to Manchester City.