Premier League warned process in Everton PSR case ‘destroys’ their biggest asset

Everton have endured a gruelling battle with the Premier League already, and the first of two appeal processes is yet to even start.

This season represents an almighty slog for Sean Dyche, his players and the club’s legal team, all of whom have it all to do with five months of the campaign remaining.

But, all they can really do is dig in and hope for a positive outcome, working as hard as they all can to shine in their respective fields.

And now, elsewhere, it feels like more and more big names are coming out to show solidarity with the Toffees.

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Andy Burnham is one such name, who continues to defend the club with immense consistency. The Mayor of Greater Manchester attests that this is a defence not just for Everton but the entire lower half of the division, and now The Esk has detailed why.

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As a highly well-read individual with a passion for the financial side of the game, there are arguably few better placed to offer updates of interest to a fanbase desperate for positivity.

And whilst he has admitted to arguing with David Ornstein over the validity of their latest breach, he would later turn his attention back to the Premier League.

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Speaking to The Toffee Blues, he would lead an impassioned speech outlining how the statutes which have overseen Everton’s punishment are wrong on so many levels. So much so that it is damaging the viability of their organisation.

He noted: ‘Are these rules fit for purpose? Well, the CEO is not of sufficient quality, as demonstrated at the hearing and on many occasions previously, and it’s not also clear that the rules themselves are not fit for purpose.

‘Clearly Everton has a real issue because we’re the ones that are getting penalised on this occasion, but the Premier League have got a real issue going forward because we might end up in a situation whereby three or four clubs all get punished in the same season, and you end up with three or four clubs out of 20 all having points penalties applied to them at some point in the middle of a season.

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‘As long as your name is not Manchester City, that could be any one of the other 19 clubs, and that just destroys the branding of the Premier League.

‘How can the Premier League be considered to be the best league in the world, best domestic club league in the world, if it has rules which, maybe a quarter of the league end up with a points penalty because they have broken financial regulations. It’s nonsense, complete and utter nonsense.’

Everton were a poor target for the Premier League
If the Premier League were desperate to show their strength and bully a weaker team riddled with financial issues, they certainly chose wrong with Everton.

After all, they must not have taken into account the unrelenting fanbase that follows them, and have not let the division breathe since their ruling.

Protests have been plentiful and powerful, from painting Goodison Park in a sea of pink corrupt flyers to flying a plane over Manchester City’s match against Liverpool.

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Even recently saw them light up various local monuments with projections detailing their anger.

This is not due to end anytime soon too, thus proving why Everton were the wrong target for the Premier League to try and make an example out of.