Premier League has charged LCFC with an alleged breach of PSR

[VLC86]

1 hour ago, RonnieTodger said:

What was the point in paying Nick De Marco to get us off the hook, when we barely made an effort to stay up?

 

Our summer window hardly smacked of ambition. May as well have taken the hit last season. 

The reality of not having a proper strategy.

 

Appoint a cheap manager making it look like you expect to drop with a points deduction, then spend stupid money and dish out more big contracts, to then not get a points deduction and try pathetically to stay up by appointing a poor manager and not backing him.

 

Basically, the managerial appointments were always at odds with the recruitment, probably down to not following through on one plan.
 

I said at the start, should have spent **** all and bravely fought which might have saved us another year down in the championship.

[ACF]

Read somewhere on X that staff weren’t being paid?

[Aleksz]

2 hours ago, hackneyfox said:

It isn’t the EFL who determine the outcome, how are you not aware of this?

 

Ok, now highlight the bit where I said they do?

Edited 19 November 2025 by Aleksz

[STUHILL]

35 minutes ago, ACF said:

Read somewhere on X that staff weren’t being paid?

I read somewhere on X that the earth is a triangle

[urban.spaceman]

23 minutes ago, STUHILL said:

I read somewhere on X that the earth is a triangle

Wait isn't it?!

[don_danbury]

2 hours ago, ACF said:

Read somewhere on X that staff weren’t being paid?

i heard the same from oldbob 

[ACF]

3 hours ago, STUHILL said:

I read somewhere on X that the earth is a triangle

I believe it

[CrazyKopCorner]

9 hours ago, gurru991 said:

For me the whole thing is just plain embarrassing. Knowing what the rules are & still screwing up is a reflection of how poorly our club is run.

Yes to cheat and still be ****ing rubbish is a total embarrassment 

[Oldblueyes]

How this all highlights the fiasco of that late transfer fax event. It proved then of the incompetence in the clubs management, so not surprised now.

[LCFCJohn]

28 minutes ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

Yes to cheat and still be ****ing rubbish is a total embarrassment 

I don’t even think there was any intention to cheat the PSR rules in the first place. Just sheer incompetence and mismanagement.

 

I still think Aiyawatt and Rudkin haven’t figured that wages are included. I can picture them getting really angry, not spending anything on transfers whilst making sales, whilst simultaneously doubling Luke Thomas’ wage…

[CrazyKopCorner]

5 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

I don’t even think there was any intention to cheat the PSR rules in the first place. Just sheer incompetence and mismanagement.

 

I still think Aiyawatt and Rudkin haven’t figured that wages are included. I can picture them getting really angry, not spending anything on transfers whilst making sales, whilst simultaneously doubling Luke Thomas’ wage…

I agree - sheer incompetence of the highest order 

[PhillippaT]

4 minutes ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

I agree - sheer incompetence of the highest order 

More like outcompetence  

[Cropwellfox]

We need to worry about a transfer ban far more than a points deduction, given the rancid state of the squad and our best player only on loan with a shockingly small option price. As said above watching James in the prem with Cov next season with a fire sale of the few other assets we have would be gut wrenching 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

I think the clubs biggest defence is that they didn’t go out to cheat (like some clearly have done) but they’re just really incompetent and got signing after signing spectacularly wrong. We actually tried to adhere and fit within the rules (the windows where we didn’t buy and really needed to) and prior incompetency meant we’ve effectively punished ourselves. Have we benefited from pushing the boundaries or breaking the PSR rules? If the answer is no, how can it be morally right to punish us further for just being really really inept?

[CrazyKopCorner]

39 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

I think the clubs biggest defence is that they didn’t go out to cheat (like some clearly have done) but they’re just really incompetent and got signing after signing spectacularly wrong. We actually tried to adhere and fit within the rules (the windows where we didn’t buy and really needed to) and prior incompetency meant we’ve effectively punished ourselves. Have we benefited from pushing the boundaries or breaking the PSR rules? If the answer is no, how can it be morally right to punish us further for just being really really inept?

Incompetence / stupidity is not usually a defence - Hopefully they make an exception in our case 

[CosbehFox]

8 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

What was the point in paying Nick De Marco to get us off the hook, when we barely made an effort to stay up?

 

Our summer window hardly smacked of ambition. May as well have taken the hit last season. 

Yep. Might as well just gonna **** it and smashed the rules ala Forest. 

 

We’ve gone halfway house all of this. 

[CosbehFox]

44 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

I think the clubs biggest defence is that they didn’t go out to cheat (like some clearly have done) but they’re just really incompetent and got signing after signing spectacularly wrong. We actually tried to adhere and fit within the rules (the windows where we didn’t buy and really needed to) and prior incompetency meant we’ve effectively punished ourselves. Have we benefited from pushing the boundaries or breaking the PSR rules? If the answer is no, how can it be morally right to punish us further for just being really really inept?

Youe argument falls down when we used a loophole to avoid a charge so rather than accepting that and moving on. 

 

We subsequently a year later, were late with the accounts submission. 
 

So we’ve not really shown any actual learning to the process 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

I don’t even think there was any intention to cheat the PSR rules in the first place. Just sheer incompetence and mismanagement.

 

I still think Aiyawatt and Rudkin haven’t figured that wages are included. I can picture them getting really angry, not spending anything on transfers whilst making sales, whilst simultaneously doubling Luke Thomas’ wage…

The end of year accounts fiddle for a loophole suggests otherwise 

[Trav Le Bleu]

8 hours ago, VLC86 said:

The reality of not having a proper strategy.

 

Appoint a cheap manager making it look like you expect to drop with a points deduction, then spend stupid money and dish out more big contracts, to then not get a points deduction and try pathetically to stay up by appointing a poor manager and not backing him.

 

Basically, the managerial appointments were always at odds with the recruitment, probably down to not following through on one plan.
 

I said at the start, should have spent **** all and bravely fought which might have saved us another year down in the championship.

Not defending the club particularly, but surely the reason we got a poor manager was because we had the deduction looming over us? Same for player signings.

 

Had the charges been sorted during close of season, as they should be for anyone (doing it mid-season is just ridiculous), then I think we'd have been able to recruit a better standard than we did.

 

So, maybe we did break the rules. Sort it out then!

[LCFCJohn]

25 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

The end of year accounts fiddle for a loophole suggests otherwise 

I should have worded better. I don’t believe there was an initial intention to break the rules to gain. Incompetence saw us overspend and give large contracts out. The loop holes came after. 

[Ric Flair]

We've ordered spaghetti bolognese with double mince and then claimed we're vegetarian and tried to pick the mince out. I ain't having it.

[Finnegan]

5 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

We've ordered spaghetti bolognese with double mince and then claimed we're vegetarian and tried to pick the mince out. I ain't having it.

 

 

[AjcW]

Double mince would be a cracking drag name!

[Pliskin]

7 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Wait isn't it?!

Clearly messing, everyone knows it’s flat!

[Stadt]

“But but but Man City”

 

Don’t give a shit about them, most of those charges are from 10 years ago when the rules have changed so much since. We just missed out on the £80m allowable loss threshold by a mere £120,000,000. 
 

We deserve to have the book thrown at us.