Groundhog Day for Everton - but Premier League FFP rules are not fit for purpose

As Everton and Nottingham Forest defend themselves against charges of breaching the Premier League's Profit and Sustainability Regulations, the rules are already outdated - and it's not a good look

Everton fans are furious with yet another round of Premier League sanctions

The focus for January is often on clubs targeting new players that can help them earn more points for the season, not about clubs potentially having points they have already earned taken away from them.

But this is the Premier League in 2024, the world’s biggest, most watched, most lucrative and most powerful club competition in the world. For Nottingham Forest it is new territory, their spend on players in the summer of 2022 done so at the time as a cost of business, one worth the risk if it meant giving them a greater chance of staying as part of the elite 20 clubs.

For Everton it is Groundhog Day and they are Bill Murray. Less than two months on from the result of the independent commission’s hearing into Everton’s breaches of the Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability Regulations, the club are back in the crosshairs of the League after being found to have been in breach once more.

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