Nottingham Forest points deduction: Wyness can’t believe new twist – ‘it’s going to be ripped up’
Keith Wyness has slammed the “ham-fisted” change in Premier League financial rules which will affect Everton and Nottingham Forest.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the 66-year-old – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – claimed other clubs “won’t be punished for something Everton and Nottingham Forest have been nailed for”.
Premier League clubs voted on Monday (11 March) to introduce new financial regulations which will cap spending on wages and transfer fees to a percentage of a club’s overall revenue – which will reportedly be around 85%.
The change will replace the current Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR)- which had previously permitted clubs to lose only £105million over three years.
‘It doesn’t seem fair’, says Wyness on Nottingham Forest rule change
Everton have already been handed a six-point deduction for a breach of PSR rules, and the Merseysiders were charged – alongside Nottingham Forest – for a separate breach earlier this year.
Wyness suggested other clubs may escape punishment with the rules set to be “ripped up”.
He told Football Insider‘s Insider Track podcast: “It’s very frustrating.
“If any other clubs are about to go over the threshold in their three-year cycle, those rules are going to be ripped up.
“What Everton and Nottingham Forest have been judged on, that no longer applies to other clubs.
“It just seems a very ham-fisted way to have handled this. It doesn’t seem fair.
“These ceilings have been moved upwards, and other clubs won’t be punished for something Everton and Forest have been nailed for.”
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