Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Financial fair play rules in the Championship, aimed at encouraging clubs to live within their means, impose escalating fines on those clubs that won promotion to the Premier League while making significant losses. Clubs that made losses but stayed in the Championship will have points deducted. QPR are expected to face a large fine because in the previous season, 2012-13, which resulted in relegation to the Championship, the club lost £65m despite earning Premier League income of £61m. QPR paid their staff, including players, £78m in the year to 31 May 2013.
If in their promotion season QPR did not cut their wage bill enough to compensate for the dramatic loss of Premier League income, and made a loss as high as the previous year, they could face a fine of £54m. The rules impose a fine of approximately £7m for a loss to £18m, then pound for pound above that.
Where's that from? The bold bit is clearly wrong.