Queens Park Rangers will not be barred from Championship

[Friendsoffulham]

Queens Park Rangers will not be barred from the Championship despite being accused of breaching Football League regulations.

QPR are alleged to have spent more on salaries than rules allowed when they were in the division two seasons ago.

The London club have been relegated from the Premier League after just one season back in the top flight.

A Football League spokesman said that QPR would be "welcomed" into the Championship.

QPR revealed a £9.8m loss in March but £60m of loans were written off by owner Tony Fernandes and other shareholders.

If the Football League refuses to find the loans acceptable under its Financial Fair Play rules, QPR could be fined by up to £58m.
Football League Financial Fair Play

Championship clubs were permitted losses of £8m (£5m funded by shareholders) in 2013-14

Clubs promoted back to the Premier League who exceeded those losses are subject to a fine

There is a sliding scale on the next £10m of losses, with a maximum fine of £6.681m

Once losses exceed £18m, the fine is imposed on a strict pound-for-pound basis

Should there be an overall loss of £30m, the fine would be almost £19m. If it was £50m, the figure would be nearly £39m

Excluding QPR from the Championship was an option open to the league if the club refused to pay any fine that is eventually imposed.

The club have begun legal action questioning the validity of the rules but the matter may not be resolved before the new season starts on 8 August.

A Football League spokesman said the process is ongoing but added: "In the meantime, the club will be welcomed back into The Football League this summer ahead of it competing in the 2015/16 Championship season."

Football League clubs have already decided to alter their Financial Fair Play rules from 2016-17 .

"With a potential fine and relegation from the Premier League, QPR are facing the loss of about £100m next season," said football finance expert David Bick.

"Getting losses under £8m is a matter of urgency for next season, otherwise they will end up with a transfer embargo ."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32742194

[Buffalo76]

Shameful news  :dft007:

[Wearethewhites]

Of course they will welcome them into the Championship, they want their 58 million, they ain't stupid.

[Roberty]

With the rewards for getting into the Premier League so high in the future it would pay to over spend and then pay the fine

Just as long as we did get promoted of course

[cookieg]

Given that the outcome isn't going to be until after next season starts it looks as if the FL don't have the bottle to the tell QPR to pay up or carry on dropping all the way through. They have probably done a deal to smooth things over.

[Woolly Mammoth]

It's another Local Derby

[Steven Ageroad]

It's another Local Derby

It will be a Mammoth game!!

[Woolly Mammoth]

It's another Local Derby

It will be a Mammoth game!!

Two Mammoth games.

[grandad]

I bet you the League will bottle it. The Hahas are sticking two fingers up at them.

[The Enclosurite]

What with the Blackpool decision and now this the Football League have really shown themselves up in the last few days.

[Artful Dodger]

Well lets get Khan's wallet out and forget this FFP crap and go and buy our way to the Premier league! Clearly it's all rubbish from the football league if they aren't prepared to stand up to QPR and enforce their own rules so why should any other club abide by them. Assuming the rumour is true....

[Sgt Fulham]

Well lets get Khan's wallet out and forget this FFP crap and go and buy our way to the Premier league! Clearly it's all rubbish from the football league if they aren't prepared to stand up to QPR and enforce their own rules so why should any other club abide by them. Assuming the rumour is true....

We could do it a lot cheaper than QPR too if we made some sensible purchases. However, in recent years sensible and Fulham haven't really gone hand in hand...

[Woolly Mammoth]

Well lets get Khan's wallet out and forget this FFP crap and go and buy our way to the Premier league! Clearly it's all rubbish from the football league if they aren't prepared to stand up to QPR and enforce their own rules so why should any other club abide by them. Assuming the rumour is true....

If you intend to get Khans Wallet out, you will need a pair of pliers to cut through the barbed wire, and watch out for moths.
Not forgetting the Code to unset the Alarm. 

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

Well lets get Khan's wallet out and forget this FFP crap and go and buy our way to the Premier league! Clearly it's all rubbish from the football league if they aren't prepared to stand up to QPR and enforce their own rules so why should any other club abide by them. Assuming the rumour is true....

Another person expecting a sugar daddy to buy them presents.

[love4ffc]

To me you either have rules in place with consequences  or you just don't have rules.  Obviously the FA has no real authority here and are speaking out both sides of their mouthes.   


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[Forever Fulham]

This is very odd.  The league will set the schedule of games for all of the teams for next season, get them locked into that schedule.  QPR will likely slow roll its challenge of the FFP rules to ensure the matter hasn't been fully resolved through whatever appeals might be available.  QPR will likely play a number of games in the Championship before final resolution.  If QPR loses in the end, how will the league treat the wins and losses of games next season in which QPR played before that decision was rendered?  And once that decision is rendered, will QPR be denied the right to continue playing games against Championship opponents?  This is an important question, because QPR's roster will likely be stocked with starters whose wages got the club into trouble with the rules in the first place!  An advantage to QPR?  Yes.  So, let's say QPR's roster of presumably underperforming but still EPL talent rolls over its Championship opponents next season.  They win, say, the first 10 games of the season, before appeals are exhausted, and before they must pay the fine or be barred from further play within the league.  They look at the effect their stocked roster is having against Championship opponents, and they say, "OK, sure, we'll pay the fine," because at that point they see the great likelihood they will be promoted back to the EPL at end of season.  The fine becomes the cost of doing business.  Now, can you see the squirrel in this picture?  They win even by losing the case and paying the fine.  They don't have to divest of players whose wages broke the debt ceiling. 

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

To me you either have rules in place with consequences  or you just don't have rules.  Obviously the FA has no real authority here and are speaking out both sides of their mouthes.   

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Football League rather than FA.

[Burt]

It's another Local Derby

It will be a Mammoth game!!

Two Mammoth games.

I will have to take you to tusk on that, as we will also play them in the League Cup.