They refused to cooperate. It makes up some of the charges. But yeah, why they weren’t acted upon earlier or investigated quicker isn’t on at all. If it hadn’t been for the hacked emails nothing would have happened at all.
As someone else said it's because Man City where full on cheating hiding money making up money and so on, and then like you say when they got caught refused to help dragging it all out.
Everton and Forrest have basically just overspent and been dumb enough to post the losses. But Everton have spent to such a ridiculous point they are fucked.
Forrest might get away with it because losses they incurred in the championship are part of this (everyone in the championship loses shit loads) and they actually would have been under if the Johnson deal happened a week earlier or something.
I can see Everton getting another deduction and Forrest a smaller one if not just a warning/transfer ban