The EFL can do one…

[PaulinOx]

They really don’t like us do they

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/sep/18/efl-wants-to-charge-leicester-with-financial-rules-breach-if-club-relegated

[Nalis]

They've got about as much authority over us as the Fijian Ice Hockey board

[st albans fox]

Not a surprise 

we can’t have it both ways 

 

Guess we reckon we have a better chance of promotion with an efl points sanction that we do staying up with a PL one 

 

mr di Marco will be the only certain winner 

[Vacamion]

 

Don't want to be the voice of doom on this sunny day, but if we get relegated they will roughly pump us.

 

So let's not get relegated.  

[Glorious Leicester Fan]

FFP is a joke. That said, as a club, we cannot continue to live precariously and use ‘ legal technicalities to escape financial/footballing mismanagement. We will eventually get caught out. 

Edited 18 September 2024 by Glorious Leicester Fan

[Ric Flair]

4 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Not a surprise 

we can’t have it both ways 

 

Guess we reckon we have a better chance of promotion with an efl points sanction that we do staying up with a PL one 

 

mr di Marco will be the only certain winner 

Not sure how they can plump for the £83m losses though vs £105m. Not sure what their thresholds are when it comes to points per amount over the maximum losses.

[Nolucklcfc]

So basically don’t get relegated 😁

[AKCJ]

“You can’t have clubs going up and down, and getting away with breaches scot-free on the grounds they’ve changed divisions,” an EFL source told the Guardian. “It’s ridiculous. Promotion and relegation is a fairly well established concept.”

 

Do the rules state that mate?

[Pliskin]

We’ve shown how much of a farce the whole system is…. Neither the EPL or the EFL could find their arse with both hands. ****ing useless the lot of them. 

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Nalis said:

They've got about as much authority over us as the Fijian Ice Hockey board

Not if Steve Cooper has anything to do with it

[smudgerfox]

“You can’t have clubs going up and down, and getting away with breaches scot-free on the grounds they’ve changed divisions,” 
 

What business can cope with the loss of over £100-million revenue overnight?  Basically you have four months at most to re-gear the finances- basically selling everything thats not tied down. And that’s sustainability? 
 

All you can do is get to the PL and make no effort to stay there - as we saw lsstcseason 

[Corky]

Don't have a problem if it happens. It was them and the PL not working together that allowed an escape before. Football is loophole central currently with clubs trying different means of circumventing punishment. We were always going to argue against as any club would.

[Les-TA-Jon]

32 minutes ago, Nalis said:

They've got about as much authority over us as the Fijian Ice Hockey board

The EFL rules are better drafted than the PL ones 

 

the EFL can charge PL clubs with punishments, unlike the PL’s inability to charge EFL clubs 

 

we’ve successfully proven that we were an EFL club not a PL club. Therefore EFL can and probably will charge us. 
 

the only thing that’s uncertain is what thresholds will apply to us and when the punishment will apply (the EFL cannot apply a punishment whilst we’re in the PL) 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Well well well if it isn't the consequences of our own actions!

[urban.spaceman]

“The EFL is determined to ensure the regulations are enforced regardless of whether Leicester had actually done anything wrong”

[Gamble92]

“You can’t have clubs going up and down, and getting away with breaches scot-free on the grounds they’ve changed divisions,” an EFL source told the Guardian. “It’s ridiculous. Promotion and relegation is a fairly well established concept.”

 

MAKE SURE IT'S MENTIONED IN YOUR ****ING RULES THEN

[Ric Flair]

I think the EFL need to tread extremely carefully with this. In a situation where there wasn't a past between club and league you wonder whether in this scenario there's any merit for the EFL to pursue this, therefore it's potential bias.

[urban.spaceman]

"Oh pack it in EFL you silly bastards"

 

[ClaphamFox]

More proof - if any were required - that the club will need to act decisively if we’re in the bottom three at the end of October. 

[StanSP]

Hopefully Nick De Marco hasn't changed his number... 

[Spiritwalker]

The EFL are a bit like the Black Knight in the Holy Grail.

[Master Fox]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

“The EFL is determined to ensure the regulations are enforced regardless of whether Leicester had actually done anything wrong”

Really?? Christ almighty , can this get any more embarrassing?? 

[fox_favourite]

We've made them look a fool with their flawed rules, so this is the EFL stamping their feet like a petulant child. 

 

They need to look at themselves and their rules with the EPL. Thats not our fault, that's their issue.

[Gamble92]

It always amazes me how if I tell anyone who supports a Barnsley or Burnley (or that kind of EFL fodder) that I support Leicester they always bringing up 2002/03 administration or even the Pearson promotion season where we were close to breaking rules. 

 

It feels like there's this sense that we are always "cheating" and they're all obsessed with it. Rather than looking at the bigger picture of what these rules actually represent. 

 

I also think that the initial period of being pleased for us winning the Premier League soon turned into absolute jealousy from fans of clubs our size. We are definitely more hated than we were. I haven't seen it said much but I think the Forest and especially Coventry rivalries have become much bigger as a result of that. Not a chance Coventry sells out against us before all the success we have had. 

[coolhandfox]

Sabre rattling at its finest.

 

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.