The Premier Leagues insistence that any monies raised by these fines ( if they are ever paid) should be given to charity and not split amongst the championship clubs certainly muddies the water, and in itself could be considered a restrictive practice by virtue of the fact that they are preventing clubs from a source of income. It also raised the question why would they insist on this? Such amounts of money by Premier League standards is peanuts, when you consider that the clubs spent over £800 million pounds on players during this transfer window, and that figure doesn't include wages which will take that spending to well over a billion pounds. So £60 million approximately in fines would give each club who stayed within the FFP rules less than two million quid each why would the premier league bother?
