Everton hit with ANOTHER two-point deduction after breaking PSR rules leaving troubled club on brink of relegation zone
EVERTON have been handed a second points deduction leaving them just above the relegation zone.
The Toffees have been slapped with a two-point deduction for breaking Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) last season.
It's the second deduction they have been hit with this season after being docked six points - ten before a successful appeal - earlier in the campaign.
The Toffees were charged by the Premier League for their fresh PSR breaches back in January and have been awaiting their punishment ever since.
And now The Premier League have announced that their wait is over confirming they have been handed a two-point penalty - taking their total deduction this season to EIGHT POINTS.
A Premier League statement read: "An independent Commission has given an immediate two-point deduction to Everton FC for a breach of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSRs) for the period ending Season 2022/23.
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"Over a three-day hearing last month, the independent Commission heard evidence and arguments from the club in respect of a range of potential mitigating factors for its admitted breach of £16.6m, Including the impact of its two successive PSR charges.
"Having done so, the Commission determined the appropriate sanction to be a two-point deduction, taking effect immediately.
"The independent Commission reaffirmed the principle that any breach of the PSRs is significant and justifies, indeed requires, a sporting sanction."
The hit drops the Merseyside club from 29 points in 15th place down to 27 points in 16th - just two points above Nottingham Forest and Luton Town in the relegation zone.
Everton were already in a relegation scrap before their new punishment, but will now feel that survival is an uphill battle in the remaining seven games of the season.
The Premier League's PSR regulations allow clubs to lose £105m over a three-year accounting period and Everton have now been found to have breached that threshold for two consecutive periods.
Everton's six-point deduction earlier in the campaign came after they breached the allowed £105m threshold by £19.5m
The extent of their breach for this second charge has been confirmed
Nottingham Forest - who were charged on the same date as Everton in January - were handed a four-point deduction for their breaches of £34.5m across a three-year period.
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The Reds have confirmed they will be appealing the decision in a similar fashion to how Everton appealed their first deduction.
Everton manager Sean Dyche has already urged his team to focus on the "controllables" during their relegation dog-fight and focus on their results instead of any points deductions.
Speaking after a 1-0 win over Burnley on Saturday, he said: "I've reminded the players we can control the controllables.
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"We've had another step forward to change that [by beating Burnley], I'm not saying we have every answer.
"But it is a very important victory I think that's another step forward in the mentality to take the rest of the season on.”
