| All down to the lawyers now...... 10:38 - May 13 with 5127 views | QPR1882 |
This is set to go on for months and months........
Queens Park Rangers have challenged the legality of the Football League's financial fair play (FFP) rules. With the Football League they have issued a joint statement to confirm that legal proceedings are under way.
An arbitration panel has been set up, thought to be composed of three QCs. Neither party will reveal when the panel will deliver its findings. Should the panel find in favour of the Football League, QPR are expected to be charged with breaking the spending rules and will be exposed to fines close to £60m.
The club would then engage in a second battle and seek to challenge the accounting principles of the FFP regulations. The club is confident that it wlll be able to reach a settlement on a lower sum. The Football League has played down suggestions that it could send QPR to the National League (formerly the Football Conference).
Despite receiving £24m in parachute payments next season, the club's income is likely to fall by £50m after relegation. |  | | |  |
| All down to the lawyers now...... on 21:37 - May 13 with 1156 views | Lblock |
This is probably likely to be an agreed "undisclosed" settlement and something that will allow the fixture computer to spit it such trips as Rotherham v QPR on New Years Eve... could be a points deduction or transfer embargo for one window..... quite likely some suspended sanction dependent on next set of accounts.
If the league lose and FFP is shown to be flawed then anyone else who has played by them or been sanctioned (is this Man City or were they done by UEFA???) would be able to reclaim fines and sue for damages on "wrongful sanctions" I'd of thought.
It's a lose lose situation for us.
However it's one f'eck up by Bungle Tone I dont blame him for. I've no idea how the fock you're supposed to sort out your budget in the space of 3 months after being relegated from the Prem Gray Train. |  |
| Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal |
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| All down to the lawyers now...... on 22:23 - May 13 with 1091 views | QPR_John |
| All down to the lawyers now...... on 21:01 - May 13 by stowmarketrange |
They can always get round it with a points deduction,and that could be applied at any time. |
How, we would be challenging FFP so while that goes on the FL could not penalise us |  | | |
| All down to the lawyers now...... on 23:24 - May 13 with 969 views | ganjR |
Sorry if already posted, but: I read somewhere that Ferdinand has said that we can't sign anyone until we know what the FFP outcome is.
If we fight it all summer, we could end up a mess like Blackpool.
As if a SH/T season and relegation isn't enough.... |  | | |
| All down to the lawyers now...... on 01:44 - May 14 with 868 views | dsr_burnley |
| All down to the lawyers now...... on 21:37 - May 13 by Lblock |
This is probably likely to be an agreed "undisclosed" settlement and something that will allow the fixture computer to spit it such trips as Rotherham v QPR on New Years Eve... could be a points deduction or transfer embargo for one window..... quite likely some suspended sanction dependent on next set of accounts.
If the league lose and FFP is shown to be flawed then anyone else who has played by them or been sanctioned (is this Man City or were they done by UEFA???) would be able to reclaim fines and sue for damages on "wrongful sanctions" I'd of thought.
It's a lose lose situation for us.
However it's one f'eck up by Bungle Tone I dont blame him for. I've no idea how the fock you're supposed to sort out your budget in the space of 3 months after being relegated from the Prem Gray Train. |
If QPR had been able to show mitigating circumstances, that they were trying to get things under control, the "contracts signed before we knew the rules" thing would have been a valid argument. But QPR signed, if my memory is correct, 19 players on permanent deals or on loan during the Championship season, when they already knew they were way over the limits. The FL isn't going to take the pre-signed contracts argument.
Some clubs - Burnley for example - had to make sacrifices to comply. We had to sell Charlie Austin, for example, partly because of the FFP rules (and partly because we don't have a super-rich owner who can pour in silly money and not care how it's spent). Maybe it's not particularly nice of me to think that just because we had to follow the rules, so should others even if it makes them suffer; but it's only human. QPR were sticking two fingers up at the rules all through the season. No wonder the FL isn't happy. | | | |
| All down to the lawyers now...... on 02:08 - May 14 with 853 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| All down to the lawyers now...... on 01:44 - May 14 by dsr_burnley |
If QPR had been able to show mitigating circumstances, that they were trying to get things under control, the "contracts signed before we knew the rules" thing would have been a valid argument. But QPR signed, if my memory is correct, 19 players on permanent deals or on loan during the Championship season, when they already knew they were way over the limits. The FL isn't going to take the pre-signed contracts argument.
Some clubs - Burnley for example - had to make sacrifices to comply. We had to sell Charlie Austin, for example, partly because of the FFP rules (and partly because we don't have a super-rich owner who can pour in silly money and not care how it's spent). Maybe it's not particularly nice of me to think that just because we had to follow the rules, so should others even if it makes them suffer; but it's only human. QPR were sticking two fingers up at the rules all through the season. No wonder the FL isn't happy. |
Mate save your breath.
Personally I couldn't agree with you more, but you will just meet blame shifting, and flimsy excuse making on here.
We should swallow our medicine and get on with being a proper club like yours .
All the best next year mate. I hope you win promotion back. |  | | |
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