Are the EFL doing their job properly?

[Tony Currie]

They are supposed to verify that new owners have the funds to buy a club. Where is the documentation proving this?

I am sure plenty of other clubs will complain about the EFL. They are inconsistent in point deductions and fines, they fail to negotiate the new premier league payments - I am sure there are more.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

How the hell are any of us meant to know?!

We might learn more after the case is heard. It might be a case of the current owners using a loophole in the deal to save millions...just like Prince found one.

 

[ekke287]

Obviously not. Our situation is after six months of vetting of this board and we’re still in this situation.

Wednesday broke the rules on a self imposed deadline and had the punishment removed.

The EFL seemingly have guidelines more than rules, and it’s easy to see why fans get pissed off when it’s not universally applied.

If we’re guilty of breaking the rules, we’ll get punished. It sucks, but it should be the way.

 

[SwissBlade]

They are supposed to verify that new owners have the funds to buy a club. Where is the documentation proving this?

I am sure plenty of other clubs will complain about the EFL. They are inconsistent in point deductions and fines, they fail to negotiate the new premier league payments - I am sure there are more.

There is no transparency

 

[Bladesman]

They are supposed to verify that new owners have the funds to buy a club. Where is the documentation proving this?

I am sure plenty of other clubs will complain about the EFL. They are inconsistent in point deductions and fines, they fail to negotiate the new premier league payments - I am sure there are more.

They do their job at random.

They allowed Storch to outplay them on a points deduction just because Chansiri replied to an e-mail late. Which is the most questionable thing they have done lately.

They have let smaller clubs go to the wall when they didn't owe that much money but been a lot more lenient to other larger clubs.

They should have given us a transfer embargo but allowed us to have a negotiated points deduction.

Our current case falls under a grey area which they may or may not act on. Although if our owners are trying to be devious it doesn't show the EFL vetting to be a great process considering how many months they take to approve a takeover.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

The EFL are pigs in blankets.....they love em.

 

[Kenworthy’s Tash]

They are supposed to verify that new owners have the funds to buy a club. Where is the documentation proving this?

I am sure plenty of other clubs will complain about the EFL. They are inconsistent in point deductions and fines, they fail to negotiate the new premier league payments - I am sure there are more.

What makes you think they didn’t prove funds? There’s a difference between having the funds and choosing whether to pay your debts?

 

[Kenworthy’s Tash]

The EFL are pigs in blankets.....they love em.

Not sure about that, our ex Chief Exec Trevor Birch is the EFL CEO?!?

 

[Jacobsenthecrab]

I don’t think the issue is that the owners don’t have the funds, more that they don’t want to pay up!
Feels like they thought they had bought a nailed-on promotion team and now the goings got tough they want to bail financially.

 

[Silent Blade]

Dont know

 

[Selly]

Clearly they aren`t - you only need to look at what occurred with our porcine neighbours to see that.

Although in the EFL's defence "vetting the owners" is there to ensure there are no obvious red flags (i.e. convictions, banruptcy etc) - it isn`t there to detect whether exceptionally rich people are going to act the cunt when it comes to business matters.

Because if it did try to do that no football club would ever get sold.

 

[dexter101]

Tests before someone buys something is very different to a test on an on going basis.

When they bought is, they proved that they had the funds.

today it could be:

They still have the money sat there waiting, they just don't want to give it for a specific reason/s
They still have money but its not currently accessible
They no longer have the money for a wide range of reasons.

 

[Danny_Blade]

Not sure about that, our ex Chief Exec Trevor Birch is the EFL CEO?!?

Indeed he is, but it doesn't mean to say he's a big Blade or will look upon us favourably either does it?

But on the other hand he may well do.

However, if this gets to a position where the EFL have investigated us and then a decision needs to be made regarding a possible points deduction or whatever else, it goes to an independent panel rather than those sitting at the top of the EFL deciding. Or now that the Independent Football Regulator is in place it may be them that decides instead? I don't really know but we shall all see, if indeed our case ends up going that far.