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I havde så også et nærmest historisk ringe nedrykkerhold. Er sikker på at Bruce havde fået Jer som minimum med i top-6 hvis han havde været i klubben fra starten af sæsonen..

Offices at Newcastle and West Ham have been raided as part of an investigation into suspected tax and National Insurance fraud, Sky sources understand.

Nearly 200 officers of HM Revenue and Customs were also deployed in the raids, which included the training ground and main offices of Newcastle United at St James´ Park and the London Stadium, home of West Ham.

A number of arrests were made, and Sky Sports News HQ understands that one of those was Newcastle´s managing director Lee Charnley.

A statement from HMRC read: "HMRC has arrested several men working within the professional football industry for a suspected Income Tax and National Insurance fraud.

"180 HMRC officers have been deployed across the UK and France today. Investigators have searched a number of premises in the north east and south east of England and arrested the men and also seized business records, financial records, computers and mobile phones.

"The French authorities are assisting the UK investigation, have made arrests and several locations have been searched in France.

"This criminal investigation sends a clear message that, whoever you are, if you commit tax fraud you can expect to face the consequences. As this is an ongoing investigation HMRC is unable to provide any further detail at this time."

For fucks sake. Naa, saa koerer det jo som det plejer. Saa vidt jeg forstaar er der tale om et muligt transferban samt at goere klubbens renomme endnu vaerre, men saa laenge der er penge kan der ikke blive tale om point-straf eller tvangsnedrykning - er det korrekt?

Svært at sige, da der intet er meldt ud endnu og alle svarer med "no comment at this moment"...

Derfor også svært at sige om det der står her, har noget på sig:
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-united-raid-live-updates-12945468

What do the rules say?

According to the English Football League’s rules and regulations regarding sporting sanctions, clubs could face point deductions in the case of an “insolvency event”.

The rules state:

“If any club becomes subject to or suffers an insolvency event, that club shall be deducted 12 points.

“If a group undertaking of a club becomes subject to or suffers an insolvency event, then the board shall have the power to impose upon the club a deduction of 12 points scored or to be scored in the League competition.”
This would be subject to appeal but the league’s rules say this point deduction is done because of the need to protect the integrity and continuity of the competition and to protect the reputation of the league and the game of football generally.

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When would the points be deducted?

The points would be deducted when the club becomes subject to any insolvency action. If this is before the fourth Thursday in March, the deduction is applied straight away.

If it is after the fourth Thursday in March, the club will start the next season on minus 12 points.

Arh, mon det går så galt?

Men det her har jo ikke noget at goere med solvens.

Ifølge de kloge folk twitter får det ingen sportslige konsekvenser for klubben.

Jeg forstaar godt hvad du mener, men mon ikke det faar konsekvenser at sportsdirektoeren er anholdt en maaned foer transfervinduet.

Spørgsmålet er reelt som dette skattefusk er styret af klubben for at inflatere kontrakter på ulovlig vis, eller om det er foregået på individniveau, men man beslaglægger data hos klubben som kan være bevis. Når den slags sker i England fryser myndighederne ofte al aktivitet og folk får lov at forlade stedet med personlige ejendele i en papkasse til de de siger man kan genoptage arbejdet.