Hiten Patel

West Brom
#COYB Smethwick STH

[Hiten Patel @thehitman84]

When you scrolling through your pictures from the night before and you remember you met a legend #wba @CaptainBrunty

[Alistair Jones 𓅪 @AliJones9]

WBA fans. As some of you know I'm trying to get @WBA to rename The Millennium Corner to The Brunty Corner. There is not a better or more fitting tribute to a true legend of our club. Can I ask as many of you to retweet as possible to endorse this idea. #wba #Brunty

[Hiten Patel @thehitman84]

@EyaWeGew @WestBromAholic Wolves

[Portsmouth FC @Pompey]

🔜

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Talent may make people notice you,

But kindness makes you unforgettable

[Shilen Patel @shilensays]

What a crowd. What a club! #COYB💙🤍

[Daniel Hewitt @DanielHewittITV]

So Albion are deducted points:

-for making charitable donations to its community foundation

-based on a RETROSPECTIVE adjustment to its accounts AFTER the EFL changed the rules

-without being told how much they exceeded the limit

-with no published judgement

No words. #wba

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

So a club can sell its hotel to itself, sell its women’s team to itself, but West Brom are punished, they believe, for legitimate “in-kind” donations to the Albion Foundation, its charity partner that saves lives. Albion also believe the alleged PSR breach is “less than £2m”

[Andy Jones @Andyjoneswrites]

#wba fined 2pts for £2m overspend, much of which was charity work which the EL retrospectively punished.

Chelsea guilty of 36 separate illegal payments of £48m for players like Hazard, Willian, Matic, Luiz which helped them win trophies.
No points deduction or transfer ban.

[Hiten Patel @thehitman84]

@BetWrightUK @BBCSport Let us know what you think when you've read the reason for the deduction

[Alistair Jones 𓅪 @AliJones9]

So, we are getting punished for breaches surrounding our CHARITY arm after the EFL decided to change their policy into what can and can’t be deducted, and changed the rules after.

Then give us a 2 point penalty without telling us how much we’ve actually breached by.

Disgrace

[WBA The Rainbow Stand 𓅪 @TheRainbowStand]

A shopkeeper runs a 'Buy 3 get 1 free' deal and tells everyone it’s fine.

Later, he suddenly decides the deal never counted and says customers owe him money.

People then get in trouble with police for theft.

Essentially what the @EFL have done to us.

[Sunil Patel @sjpatel212]

EFL investigating massive overspends by clubs to gain an unfair advantage

Vs

EFL investigating charitable donations by the Albion under a retrospective rule change

#wba

[Chris Hall @CJHall83]

Just in case anybody is any doubt as the level of absurdity of this charge…

We’ve been deducted points for making donations to a CHARITY!!

You really do hate the game and the people who follow it don’t you @EFL?

#wba

[Howard Martin 💚🏏⚽️ @HJMKent]

So, tomorrow Derby will beat Oxford, Portsmouth will beat Leicester, Baggies will beat PNE, and I'll wake up in bed with Amanda Holden & Kylie! Sorted! #Wba

[Matt Johnson @MattJohno1989]

@DavidPiesing63 @DeanoTheBaggie @RobDorsettSky @JPercyTelegraph @GoldbergRadio @BuzagloToBalis @AliJones9 As a Sheffield Wednesday fan I’m very interested in this. Where your argument falls down is you are speaking from a place of common sense backed up by fact and evidence. There is no place for this at the EFL. Hope you get a better outcome than us. Much love from #swfc

[David Piesing @DavidPiesing63]

@RobDorsettSky @JPercyTelegraph @GoldbergRadio @BuzagloToBalis @AliJones9 Hang on - the club had to borrow money BECAUSE Lai had literally stolen (I use that term without hesitation) money from the club with the Wisdom Smart “loan” that was made unlawfully by his stooge (then sole director of the club), Ke Xu, in blatant breach of his fiduciary duty to only act in the best interests of the company (being the football club) which that “loan” made to Wisdom Smart very clearly was not!

I sent several emails to Ke Xu about this (I have copies), pointing out his blatant breach of fiduciary duty and demanding to know as a shareholder what he was doing to enforce repayment from Wisdom Smart. Every email was totally ignored. I also sent emails about it to the club’s auditors, Azets (I still have copies) who were obviously very interested. Crucially I sent an email to Rick Parry (Chairman) and Trevor Birch (Chief Executive Officer) of the EFL on 20th January 2023 about Lai’s “loan”, which led to two video calls with their “very interested” colleagues Mark Rowan (Chief Communications Officer) and Nick Craig (Chief Operating Officer) in May 2023 about all the shenanigans. I made them aware of facts regarding the Chinese ultimate beneficial ownership of the club which neither they nor the Premier League (who originally approved Lai as “fit and proper”) knew nothing about. Because of those illegal acts by Xu, as Lai’s puppet, money unlawfully disappeared from the club, leaving it days away from going into administration.

If the club may potentially now suffer a points deduction some 3 years later directly because of the club having no option but to pay interest on expensive MSD loans taken out by Lai to literally keep the club in existence because he was unable to repay his own unlawful Wisdom Smart “loan”, then this would be a disgraceful gross injustice by the EFL and must be fully exposed and challenged. No sane person would deem that to a breach worthy of a points deduction. The EFL was made fully aware of the situation regarding that Wisdom Smart loan and if they cannot now locate their emails to refer to, I do still have them all.

The EFL has had an absolute stinker here on multiple fronts (as did the Premier League before them) and they need to recognise that and immediately dismiss any charge against the club.

[Chris Hall @CJHall83]

@rjcroton @cricketbetting @BBCSport Spot on, it’s simply not punishing the right people and we gained no real sporting advantage from our expenditure.

Our expenditure came from an owner being more interested in his other ventures and at times he was using club money to fund them

[Hiten Patel @thehitman84]

@LewisCox_star Saturday suddenly feels like a must win.
Hopefully Cov beat Blackburn Friday night and we have 2 games in hand on them then.
Part of me wants Portsmouth to beat Leicester now and send them further into the mire

[Hiten Patel @thehitman84]

@LewisCox_star If we've broken rules then we deserve punishment. Appropriateness and timing is the talking point.
The way Mozza has already put fight into the players, this might galvanize them even more... hopefully

[West Bromwich Albion @WBA]

@Wolves All of us at West Bromwich Albion are sending our love to Diogo and Andre’s family, friends and loved ones, alongside everyone associated with Wolves at this tragic time.

May they rest in peace. ❤️