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Originally Posted by Ksyrup
So Leicester appears to have withstood a poor second half of the season to secure promotion back to EPL and likely to win the EFL title outright (they lead today 3-0 with about 20 minutes left and with a win would secure the title).
I don't know (or care to know) much about soccer's various rules and such, but an article I mostly read a week or so ago (until my eyes glazed over) suggests that they are in big trouble for next year - so much so that it seems like another year or two in EFL to sort their crap out might be preferable to instant promotion. Apparently they are in violation of financial rules and based on precedent, likely looking at starting next year more than 4 points in the hole. And based on whatever rules are in place, they may be precluded from signing any of their players whose contracts will be up at the end of this year - including Jamie Vardy. Further, either finances or penalties are going to restrict them from signing too many players before next season starts and may require that they sell off their best remaining players (like Dewsbury-Hall).
That all seems like it puts a big, fat damper on promotion.
Anyway... congrats?
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Reports are that the embargo is an EFL embargo, so once we are officially an EPL team (6th June) we can sign/resign as normal…
Except we still need to make savings by 30th June to avoid more breaches of the EPL PSR rules.
What it will likely mean is that we will sign Fatawu, Vardy will likely move on unless he takes a significant drop in wages, and KDH plus others will need to be sold.
And -6 seems to be the consensus starting position
Staying down wouldn’t have worked, as it would have just been kicking the can down the road on the PL punishments, while the EFL embargo and future breach of their rules would have meant more significant and immediate penalties there, massively reducing the likelihood of being competitive
What hasn’t been clarified (as we haven’t officially broken any EFL rules yet, hence one of the legal challenges- we are likely to, but haven’t actually failed yet) is what happens if/when we get relegated agin: will there be future EFL deductions? Probably