The Club That Keeps On Giving - Cardiff City New Embargo

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009922820776575416

Cardiff City say transfer embargo over late accounts will be 'removed'

Cardiff City are under a transfer embargo for "non-submission of annual accounts", but say the situation will be resolved in the coming days.

www.bbc.co.uk

Um bongo.

I said it on the other thread, but I wonder if they decided they would be better off facing an embargo than a points deduction for allegedly going over their spending limits for League One

I said it on the other thread, but I wonder if they decided they would be better off facing an embargo than a points deduction for allegedly going over their spending limits for League One

If they are found to have broken the rules, I can't believe the Football League would let them get away with gaming the system like that. They should be given a new deadline to get them in and if they don't, they'll get a points deduction, with extra points docked on a schedule until they get them in for assessment.

There needs to be a whole different level of punishment applied to clubs who very obviously try to game the system.

They hammer the likes of Sheffield Wednesday for their owners being crap and incompetent (rightly so by the way) but then you have teams like Cardiff and Leicester who very obviously sit down, have a look at the rules and think how can we bend this, how we can get around it, what are the loopholes we can use. They should be ransacking clubs like this, points deductions, six/seven figure fines, promotion bans, the lot. Scummy behaviour (no pun intended).

Um bongo.

Being in my mid 40’s is it childish that I would absolutely live them to be deducted a shit tonne of points?

Being in my mid 40’s is it childish that I would absolutely live them to be deducted a shit tonne of points?

Absolutely not, and if you are being childish then I'm coming on the swings with you brother

There needs to be a whole different level of punishment applied to clubs who very obviously try to game the system.

They hammer the likes of Sheffield Wednesday for their owners being crap and incompetent (rightly so by the way) but then you have teams like Cardiff and Leicester who very obviously sit down, have a look at the rules and think how can we bend this, how we can get around it, what are the loopholes we can use. They should be ransacking clubs like this, points deductions, six/seven figure fines, promotion bans, the lot. Scummy behaviour (no pun intended).

I agree absolutely, I remember when Leeds tried to game the system by going into administration after they were already relegated to League One. The FA responded by applying the points deduction to the next season setting a precedent that they won't let teams try to be clever with the rules.

They tried to go after Leicester when they broke spending rules to get promoted a few years back but the Premier League turned their noses up at them saying they had no authority to deduct points from a Premier League side. The Premier League quickly changed their tune when Leicester got relegated and they tried to deduct points from them and Leicester tried to argue that they had no authority to deduct points from an FA team.

Teams that try to rules lawyer this kind of stuff deserve to be hammered down into the stone age (and the conference league too by my opinion)

 

[bakajack]

I wonder what the chances were that they were looking at losses severe enough to be slapped with a points penalty which would hurt their chances of promotion back to the Championship next season?

 

[CygnusX1]

They’ll probably blame Nantes

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Has this thread gone a bit weird for anyone else? Display-wise

 

[bakajack]

Has this thread gone a bit weird for anyone else? Display-wise

Yeah every reply seems to have been merged into Darran's original post

 

[bakajack]

Looking at the League One table

Honestly speaking even if they got slammed with a 15 point deduction (which only teams in administration get) they would probably still make the play offs. Even a 9 point deduction would still leave them in the playoffs as the league table stands now

But for the club to be late to file last seasons accounts as an "administrative error"?
That excuse stinks worse than my dogs farts

 

[eteb]

Something is wrong though. They had one of the highest wage bills in the champ last year and didn't record any major sales, so how are they financing that in league 1 ?

 

[monmouth]

Something is wrong though. They had one of the highest wage bills in the champ last year and didn't record any major sales, so how are they financing that in league 1 ?

Didn't they get rid of some big earners? O'Doody, El Khazi and a few more? I thought that's why they were playing their youngsters? But, as you say, there is almost certainly something they are trying to 'fix'.

A lot might hang on this Nantes judgement, and I don't think that is cut and dried against them. Even if they 'just' get the transfer fee, or half, returned.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

If Birmingham didn't het stung by FFP with the amount they spent in league 1, the scum aren't going to be punished very severely.

 

[monmouth]

If Birmingham didn't het stung by FFP with the amount they spent in league 1, the scum aren't going to be punished very severely.

The rules were changed because of that weren't they?

 

[Neath_Jack]

Cardiff goal kick routine goes horribly wrong | Trott gifts goal to Orient!
https://www.skysports.com/share/13492871

 

[Londonlisa2001]

The rules were changed because of that weren't they?

Yep.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Looking at the League One table

Honestly speaking even if they got slammed with a 15 point deduction (which only teams in administration get) they would probably still make the play offs. Even a 9 point deduction would still leave them in the playoffs as the league table stands now

But for the club to be late to file last seasons accounts as an "administrative error"?
That excuse stinks worse than my dogs farts

We are behind on our companies house filings as well mind…

It’s not necessarily ‘hiding’ info. They may just be as utterly crap as us.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

The rules were changed because of that weren't they?

There's hope then

 

[monmouth]

We are behind on our companies house filings as well mind…

It’s not necessarily ‘hiding’ info. They may just be as utterly crap as us.

Wish we’d had a few Um Bongos given some of what we’ve bought.