The Premier League has made Nottingham Forest the second club to be punished for breaching profitability and sustainability rules (PSRs). After Everton were docked 10-points earlier in the season, later reduced to six upon appeal, Nuno Espirito Santo's side have now lost four themselves.
The decision, revealed on Monday, drops Forest into the relegation zone with Luton rising out of it by just one point. Like Everton, Forest will appeal the outcome and hope to see a reduction in their sanction.
It comes in the same week thatthe league is set to come under increasing pressure from the government to finalise a new financial deal with the English Football League (EFL) after a fresh model of its own was confirmed last week. PSRs are also set to change in the coming years too.
However, having previously never taken the fight to its own clubs,the league has now charged three teams with breaking regulations in the past 18 months. The Toffees were the first to be judged to have gone over the £105million loss-making threshold over a rolling three-year period when they were charged in March 2023, though Manchester City's own case was revealed before then.
The reigning champions were left shocked when the league handed them 115 charges of wide-ranging misdeeds over a 10-year period ending in 2018. Totally separate and different to the cases of Everton and Forest, City's trial is yet to take place with no public date having been announced.
Much like has been the case with each update in these important cases, they are greeted with questions over why City are yet to be prosecuted. The same will happen again here as City are put under the microscope.
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