Still nothing for Man City
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckg2m450zgzo
Not much for chelsea neither Mr S
That fine is
Pocket money for them.
Chump change 🪙
Oh no, that's like one less addition to their youth team. How on earth will they manage with only buying 47 players in total next year and not 48? Oh the agony
that'll teach them
Best joke I've heard in a while... 🙄
Box ticked, case closed. Precedent set.
City will get exactly the same thing with a slightly bigger (utterly pointless) fine.
That's like fining me - 2 bob & a mars bar
Apparently the FA may impose a points deduction. Very unlikely - but we will see (let's hope they do!)
#115 ers will escape any points deduction no doubt.
Sky can't have a team like that out of the top flight... can they... ::tongue::
Quote from: Lordedmundo on Today at 10:38:51 AMApparently the FA may impose a points deduction. Very unlikely - but we will see (let's hope they do!)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/16/the-premier-league-is-surprisingly-lenient-did-chelsea-get-off-lighly
If the secret payments were £47m then I'd have fined them the same, + interest from the period in question to now.
And deduct 47 points!
Farcical really - wholesale cheating which enabled them to sign many top players that enabled them to win multiple trophies and they get fined £10m. It makes the entire thing worthwhile from their point of view - and the Directors at the dog track at the time declined to give evidence ::angry::
Just saw on Talk Sport a football finance expert was saying Chelsea won't end up paying anything. The £10m fine is expected to be paid from Abramovic's Ukraine war fund.
Quote from: Jules on Today at 03:01:43 PMJust saw on Talk Sport a football finance expert was saying Chelsea won't end up paying anything. The £10m fine is expected to be paid from Abramovic's Ukraine war fund.
It will actually be paid out of the monies that they hold as a retention against the full consideration agreed with Abramovich for the sale. Therefore the £150m retention will be reduced to £140m which will then be paid to him in 2027. So technically you are correct and Abramovich is paying it