Nottingham Forest fans stunned by 'corrupt' Premier League after Chelsea news

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05 Sep 2024, 10:30 am

Nottingham Forest fans have been left raging at the Premier League once again after the latest update on Chelsea's potential financial breaches.

A report from ESPN revealed that the Premier League have cleared the Blues' sale of two hotels to a sister company which will aid their compliance with profit and sustainability rules.

Essentially - Chelsea's majority owners Clearlake Capital will transfer money from one BlueCo subsidiary to another to help avoid the financial restrictions and eventual punishment.

Yet again, belief is growing that the Premier League appears to be doing all it can to assist clubs in avoiding punishments for failing to stay within the rules.

Supporters were previously left stunned after finance expert Stefan Borson revealed a £40million allowance had been given to Man United to help them avoid a PSR breach.

This comes after both Nottingham Forest and Everton were handed points deductions last summer for their own breaches of PSR.

Since those punishments were delivered, fans have insisted most clubs in the division are being governed differently from the big six - and the latest twist serves as further proof of their claims.

Nottingham Forest fans rage at Premier League after Chelsea PSR twist

Forest were deducted four points for their breach of PSR last season, despite having spent two years of the three-year period in the Championship.

Now, fans are beginning to feel more harshly treated with each passing day, having also been shocked as Leicester City managed to win their appeal against their own charge.

Forest supporters have flocked to social media after the recent events, as they labelled the Premier League "pathetic", insisting the latest news is "blatant corruption".

Corrupt!

There are no other clubs outside the "big 6" that would be allowed to do it. Even UEFA have questioned those sales & said no to accepting them in the accounts 😂 https://t.co/o3eQfIUEI5
— Mike (@mike_WHU_641) September 4, 2024

Premier League is corrupt to the core https://t.co/w6pPEr8b5z
— ZEROCOOL (@ZEROCOOL_RJW) September 4, 2024

Blatant corruption, games gone
— Joshua Prince (@_JoshuaPrince_) September 4, 2024

What?? Hotels? To a “sister company”?
This can’t be right. https://t.co/x3S3XVqq6A
— Martiñio (@redmartinio) September 5, 2024

All bets are off spend what you want. Give Everton and Forest those points back, this season.
— Grant Fellows (@GrantFellows2) September 4, 2024

Only right to dock Everton and Forest 10 points https://t.co/bJwPwUWmpM
— SA (@SA_1884) September 4, 2024

“Good faith”? Pls tell that to Chelsea? Selling things to themselves to meet PSR is obvs not in “good faith” but @premierleague and @EFL don’t want to talk about that. You just wanna punish little old @Everton, @NFFC & @LCFC so you can send a warning to little old @NUFC. Pathetic
— Shaunyprawny (@Shaunyprawny1) September 4, 2024

Chelsea selling two hotels to themselves for over £70M so they can avoid PSR breaches.

Leicester avoiding punishment just because they were relegated.

Teams being forced to sell home grown talent because it’s more profitable.

PSR is broken #NFFC
— Ant (@AntD_2010) September 4, 2024

Others, meanwhile, have called for the affected clubs to sue the Premier League given the apparent difference in how clubs are dealt with.

This is going to end with the PL getting sued left, right and centre and then everyone agreeing to settle by scrapping PSR and FFP. I don’t think these financial rules will exist in 5-10 years time across UEFA
— southern27 (@southerntoon27) September 4, 2024

@Everton @NFFC get suing @premierleague https://t.co/fNMM7c6fP2
— Smoke me a kipper (@trebletime23) September 4, 2024

UEFA have said that you can't do this which has got Chelsea panicking to stay under European PSR but the EPL are like "yeah, that's perfectly fine" 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ talk about pandering to specific teams. #NUFC #EFC #LCFC #NFFC #AVFC and others should join together to take the EPL to court
— Adrian (Adi) Langley (@adilangley) September 4, 2024

In other news, Forest fans are raging at Gary Neville after his latest PSR claim.

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