Sean Dyche, the manager of the Everton football club, feels that the Premier League team isn’t deserving of the 10-point penalty imposed on them for breaching financial rules.
Last Monday, Sean Dyche and his squad dropped from 14th to 19th place in the Premier League standings after English football officials deemed them in violation of financial fair play regulations.
Everton’s new position in the league table is unaffected, despite their explicit intention to appeal the penalty.
Coach Sean Dyche of Everton asserts that his position “hasn’t changed” in spite of the suspension and that his team is prepared “for the next challenge” ahead of Sunday’s Premier League matchup against Manchester United.
“Like everyone in these parts, I was shocked,” the coach remarked. Everyone in football seemed shocked [by] the noise wave.
“The magnitude of it. The word “disporportionate” is being used, and it goes without saying that we will take offense at it.
“It doesn’t change the focus, which is getting things straight on the field, winning for the team, and having different performances,” he continued.
“We were performing well and were headed in the right direction; the punishment has motivated us to move forward once more. My job hasn’t changed, but up until the appeal, the current situation has made it more challenging.
“The league table is one thing; the final league table is the truth,” I told the group. Because the deduction requires us to work harder for longer periods of time, it improves what we are doing. These are the football regulations.
Everton stated that the primary cause of the financial breach is interest payments for their new £760 million stadium in Bramley Moore Dock.
Despite the club’s argument that there were mitigating circumstances, the investigating panel rejected the club’s claim that such interest payments were sufficient “add-backs” for profit and sustainability calculations for the fiscal year 2021–2022.
Given that the majority of the club’s supporters feel they were unfairly punished, a number of supporters have organized a large-scale anti-Premier League demonstration that will take place on Sunday, November 26, 2023, before to the Everton vs. Manchester United match at Goodison Park.