More FFP charges but what about Man City?
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It is close to a year — 49 weeks and counting — since the Premier League handed Manchester City a charge sheet with 115 breaches of its financial rules across NINE different seasons.
Just yesterday, the Premier League brought charges against both Nottingham Forest - and for the second time this season - Everton... All before the reigning Premier League champions are to even see a hearing begin?
So, what’s going on? Is PSR (Profitability & Sustainability Rules) really about promoting sustainability, meeting arbitrary deadlines or maybe just maintaining the status quo? And is the Everton ruling to blame for an unusually quiet January transfer window?
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic's David Ornstein, Adam Crafton and Matt Slater.
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| 0:35.1 | It's close to a year, 49 weeks and counting since the Premier League handed Manchester City, |
| 0:43.7 | a charge sheet with 115 breaches of its financial rules across nine different seasons. |
| 0:50.7 | Just yesterday, the Premier League brought charges against both Nottingham Forest and for the second time this season, Everton. |
| 0:58.1 | All before the reigning Premier League champions are to even see a here and begin. |
| 1:03.2 | So, what is going on? Are PSR rules really about promoting sustainability, meeting arbitrary deadlines, or maybe just maintaining the status quo. |
| 1:13.9 | And it's the Everton ruling to blame for an unusually quiet January transfer window. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm Ia Oakeem O'Me. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 1:34.1 | Thank you. Look, we've got a heavyweight lineup for today's podcast. |
| 1:37.2 | We've got the Avengers together, and I'm joined by the athletics, David Ornstein, who broke this story actually over the weekend and also Matt Slater and |
| 1:41.7 | Adam crafting. |
| 1:43.1 | David, let's start with Everton. |
| 1:44.8 | Look, being charged again, didn't they just recover from what a 10-point deduction, |
| 1:49.9 | which actually left them at the brink of relegation a couple of months ago? |
| 1:54.5 | Yeah, let's lay out the situation as succinctly as possible. |
| 1:59.4 | The Premier League has a financial fair play model. It's now |
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