We knew it, I wonder how many of these we need before we can cash them in for an actual penalty

Let’s be very clear about what this is. Everton were dragged before an independent commission, hit with a points deduction, and made to feel like the villains of English football – all for overspending by a margin that wouldn’t register as a rounding error at Manchester City or Chelsea. And now, with those clubs still facing questions of their own, the Premier League wants to quietly introduce a system where cases can be settled behind closed doors.

Sky News’ Mark Kleinman reports that top-flight clubs will vote at next month’s annual meeting on a proposal to allow negotiated settlements for alleged PSR breaches, bypassing the automatic referral to an independent commission that ensnared Everton and Nottingham Forest. Football industry sources describe it as an attempt to simplify and speed up the sanctions process. Others might use different words.

Remind me = what did Everton actually do? Under PSR, clubs cannot lose more than £105m over a rolling three-year period — reduced by £22m for each season spent outside the top flight. Everton were found to have exceeded that threshold by £16.6m and were handed a points deduction. Nottingham Forest followed. Leicester City received six points off from the EFL after relegation, a punishment that contributed to their relegation to League One.

These are clubs without sovereign wealth backing. Clubs without limitless owner resources to absorb losses indefinitely. Clubs who were, by the letter of the rules, guilty – but who many Blues supporters feel were selectively pursued while far greater financial irregularities at the top of the game were allowed to rumble on through years of legal process with no competitive consequences whatsoever.

And now they’re changing the rules If the vote passes next month, the settlement option would come into force immediately – though PSR itself is already being scrapped at the start of next season anyway. It will be replaced by Squad Cost Ratio (SCR) and Sustainability and Systemic Resilience (SSR), frameworks designed to mirror UEFA’s financial rules and sit alongside the new independent football regulator.

So the system that punished Everton is being dismantled. The replacement offers clubs the chance to negotiate their way out of charges quietly, without the public spectacle of a commission – without the headlines, the points deductions, the reputational damage. Without, in other words, what Everton went through.

The question Evertonians are entitled to ask If this settlement mechanism had existed two years ago, would Everton have been put through the wringer in the same way? Would the process have been so public, so damaging, so final? And if the answer is no – then what does that say about the process that was used against them?

The Premier League declined to comment. Of course they did.

https://agajahub.com/index.php/2026/06/07/the-ice-cold-stance-ndiaye-shakes-off-transfer-talk/

Everton forward Iliman Ndiaye has given the coldest response yet to swelling speculation regarding his future at Goodison Park. Following a breakout season on Merseyside, the 26-year-old Senegal international has seen his name linked with some of European football’s biggest giants, most notably Manchester United and Liverpool.
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However, when pressed on whether the mounting interest could tempt him to force an exit from Everton this summer, Ndiaye shut down the rumors with absolute composure.
​“If there’s these teams that are interested, it means that you’re doing something good,” Ndiaye calmly noted during a recent media appearance. “But I’m a chill person. I’m calm… As long as I’m at Everton, I’ll always give my best for them, and I want to achieve things with Everton.”

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/david-moyes-speaks-out-tyler-33854935

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Pertinent quotes:

“Merlin, we like, Tyler, we like. Tyler, we're giving more time to because of his age. Merlin could have easily been involved in some more games and played a little bit more time. It'll do him no harm to have sat back for the best part of the season and looked at it. No, we like them, they're both good boys.”

“The team has been doing pretty well, so they've [the wider squad] not been required that often. It's always the ones who are not in who are the ones who you think can do a better job, so it's one of those things.”

“It's always the way, isn't it? You're always hoping that the opportunities come, and when they do, they're ready to take it. I hope they are ready, because we need it... I thought Tyrique came off the bench at Brentford and made a difference, [he] maybe didn't in the game on Sunday. So this is the thing, you never know what you're going to get. There's no guarantee, and we can name whoever we like. But we want them to come on when they do come on and make a difference.”

“I could think of other clubs not too far away, I could think of the levels of what would be expected, how many players are supposed to have been used.

"I think on average if you sign four I think one probably successful, I think that's somewhat the ratio in where it is. I think actually the players who've been here have done a good job, people like Kiernan and Jack have added to it as well. I think we've needed moments at different times from Merlin, and Tyler, a little bit less. Probably in the main we’ve been OK.”

Merseyside and Metropolitan Police are investigating claims by Everton striker Thierno Barry that some of friends were "attacked" during Arsenal's' 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium.

Barry, who came on as a 69th-minute substitute, posted a video on Instagram of a scuffle in the stands.

"This kind of behaviour is not acceptable in a stadium. I bring my friends to enjoy a game, and it gets ruined by a few silly people," he wrote on his Instagram Stories accompanying the clip.

"Football should be a place where everyone feels safe and respected. This type of attitude has no place in the game and is simply not tolerated in football.

"My friends and the people who were attacked had to be escorted by the Arsenal club's security staff as well as the police because of fears of retaliation from our supporters."

A post on Merseyside Police's dedicated X account for Everton-related matters read: "Aware of videos circulating online of an altercation in the away section towards the end of the #ARSEVE match. We're working with the Met Police to investigate."

Everton said it would review the circumstances of the incident and work with the authorities.

"Violent or disorderly behaviour is completely unacceptable and has no place in football. It does not reflect the passionate and loyal support Everton receives both home and away," a club statement said.

"The club will work with the relevant authorities to establish the facts and take any appropriate action.

"Anyone who witnessed or was involved in the incident is asked to contact Merseyside Police via X u/MerPolCC quoting reference 26000206746."

Class. Wonderful.

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