I suspect that paying very expensive lawyers for an appeal that will undoubtedly last another 3 years followed by suffering a limp punishment of a cash fine and a suspended transfer ban will be judged as optimal.
I'm hoping the lawyers fees count against FFP too.
That would seem apt as huge lawyers fees are not something a properly run club would be facing.
And when do the fit and proper person tests look at the directors & leadership team?
They owned up to financial doping by the previous owner and cooperated.
Whereas one of cityβs 115 charges was obstruction and failure to cooperate with the investigation.
I think I would like a cartoonishly enormous points deduction, like six hundred points. Like when people get sentenced to a hundred and seventy years in prison, just meaninglessly big numbers.
It's easy to say that when you've never had the chance to commit a vast litany of financial crimes. Maybe be a little more gracious to the massive money machine?