BomberBowyer
Vital Reserves Team
It isn't the same thing.
By the looks of things, if we break FFP it will be because we have either got our sums wrong or understood the rules wrong. The club are saying they have complied. The numbers suggest they may (just) have complied. The club have clearly been attempting to comply by some of the actions they have taken.
Cheating would be deliberately breaking FFP and then trying to conceal it, or, as in Derby's case, flagrantly breaking the rules and claiming you have a clever workaround by selling your own ground to yourself.
But it sounds like we're claiming the Johnson sale was our way of avoiding overspending but missed the deadline by 2 months. Not sure any credible accountants could argue this was not " flagrantly breaking the rules and claiming you have a clever workaround" by not knowing there was a deadline because you wanted to maximise the sale price.