EXCLUSIVEBurnley might SUE the Premier League for money after they cut Everton’s 10-point sanction for breaking spending regulations
- Everton’s 10-point deduction was reduced to six by the Premier League
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Burnley are receiving legal advice over suing the Premier League for compensation after Everton’s punishment for breaching Profit and Sustainability Rules was confirmed as a six-point deduction last week.
Mail Sport revealed last year that several Premier League clubs were mulling legal action against Everton after they were charged with spending breaches, but that prospect has vanished due to the club’s financial problems.
Burnley are examining the potential of pursuing a financial claim against the Premier League nevertheless, on the basis that they were demoted to the Championship due to what they view as the top-flight executive’s failure to enforce spending limits in real time.
The Lancashire club finished four points behind Everton in 18th place in the 2021/22 season, the final campaign in the three-year period for which their rivals have been punished for overspending, but would have kept up had the six-point penalty been enforced during that season.
As Mail Sport disclosed at the time Burnley and Leeds wrote to the Premier League in May 2022 with a warning that they reserved the right to sue due concern over Everton’s expenditure after they posted losses of £371.8m over three years without being charged.
Burnley are receiving legal advice over suing the Premier League after Everton’s points deduction was cut to six points
Everton’s 10-point penalty for exceeding the Premier League’s spending restrictions has been cut to six following an appeal.
Everton were charged with breaching rules the following March, and now that the case has officially finished with the sentence reduced to a six-point deduction on appeal Burnley are assessing their options.
Burnley’s choice will be predicated on weighing up the costs of pursuing legal action against the potential return should they be successful.
In an interim decision this summer the chair of independent panel that heard Everton’s case, David Phillips KC, decided that their Premier League opponents would be allowed to claim compensation if the club were found guilty.
The Premier League wanted to have Everton’s first case of exceeding spending rules heard last season which given their eventual fine would have seen them relegated, but were overturned by the independent commission who concurred with the club’s claims that the hearing should be delayed.
The Premier League have now altered their rules so that spending cases can be considered promptly following the season in which they occur, as his happening with Everton’s second charge and Nottingham Forest’s, but such restrictions were not in place during the 2021/22 season.
Burnley could argue they were demoted to the Championship because to what they view as the top-flight executive’s unwillingness to enforce spending regulations in real time.
Leeds and Leicester could also have a financial claim depending on the decision of Everton’s second PSR accusation, which will be considered next month and pertains to expenditures over the three years culminating in last season.
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