City & FFP | 2020/21 Accounts released | Revenues of £569.8m, £2.4m profit (p 2395)

[Manchester_lalala]

Another great article from Martin Samuel. He’s understood what FFP was all about from day one.

 

[chesterbells]

And there's the reason that Real have been left high & dry.

Trust nobody.

Absolutely, why should city's owners be taken for a ride by a backstabbing bunch like that. Glad they pulled the plug on stadium sponsorship.

 

[Bald fraud]

Can’t wait for ffp mk 3!

 

[scousemanc]

We've got the 5th highest income of any club in the world, don't we?

I say bring on FFP 2.0. What have we got to worry about?

If you read the article it will tell you exactly what we have to worry about. The restriction will be based on net transfers each season and not related to income.
Bloody good article by the way.

 

[Peggy's a blue]

Another great article from Martin Samuel. He’s understood what FFP was all about from day one.

Spot on! I remember reading an article by him about FFP a couple of years ago. He was saying the elite want to pull up the drawbridge before the city’s of this world joined them.
I also remember him saying how difficult it would be to attract buyers to clubs that were not in the elite. He quoted Villa who were up for sale at the time, he was spot on. Who would want to buy a club you were prevented to invest in because of ffp, the whole thing stinks.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

This will just keep us at the top but won't last long

 

[eyejay51]

If you read the article it will tell you exactly what we have to worry about. The restriction will be based on net transfers each season and not related to income.
Bloody good article by the way.

Won’t solve the “Chelsea” type situation, whilst they still find a way of selling average players for vastly inflated fees, thus still giving them the upper hand in net transfer value.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Spot on! I remember reading an article by him about FFP a couple of years ago. He was saying the elite want to pull up the drawbridge before the city’s of this world joined them.
I also remember him saying how difficult it would be to attract buyers to clubs that were not in the elite. He quoted Villa who were up for sale at the time, he was spot on. Who would want to buy a club you were prevented to invest in because of ffp, the whole thing stinks.

All you see is Villa fans complaining about FFP on Twitter. Wolves fans are the same, as are plenty more clubs. More people are aware why FFP was created now. It’s not UEFA’s and the top clubs little secret anymore.

 

[domalino]

If you read the article it will tell you exactly what we have to worry about. The restriction will be based on net transfers each season and not related to income.
Bloody good article by the way.

Which will put the academy into overload as a source of money, and probably just make us sell players a bit younger when they still have some value left.

 

[bumbleblue]

All you see is Villa fans complaining about FFP on Twitter. Wolves fans are the same, as are plenty more clubs. More people are aware why FFP was created now. It’s not UEFA’s and the top clubs little secret anymore.

And when most were pointing at us and laughing we were the only ones warning we would be the last to try and scramble up a closing drawbridge.

 

[domalino]

All you see is Villa fans complaining about FFP on Twitter. Wolves fans are the same, as are plenty more clubs. More people are aware why FFP was created now. It’s not UEFA’s and the top clubs little secret anymore.

The italians can't stand it. Roma can't launch a title bid because every year they have to sell someone big to stay out of FFP trouble.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

The italians can't stand it. Roma can't launch a title bid because every year they have to sell someone big to stay out of FFP trouble.

One club I do enjoy being hold back by FFP is Milan. They were one of the main ball players in getting the whole process set up.

 

[chicagoblue23]

The new FFP plan won't have any effect on City. The money in the game will just transfer from the selling club to the incoming players wages. That seems pretty obvious to me.

I suppose some teams will no longer have the incentive to sell. But they still wont be able to get away with paying their players a fraction of the new market rate in wages. At least not for very long.

 

[deano ou812]

My only concern is that these constant attempts to halt our progress,could have shiek mansour deciding enoughs enough and prepare to sell up,god knows what goes on behind closed doors at meetings like the G14 or actual contact between say city and real or Barca all nicey nicely then when it’s over stabbing you in the back,I’m sure he’s frustrated I know we as fans are..

 

[Dicko69]

Samuel hit the nail on the head when he says that no matter what they think up to try to stop us, the people running our club are smarter

 

[scousemanc]

The new FFP plan won't have any effect on City. The money in the game will just transfer from the selling club to the incoming players wages. That seems pretty obvious to me.

I suppose some teams will no longer have the incentive to sell. But they still wont be able to get away with paying their players a fraction of the new market rate in wages. At least not for very long.

Good point. You would expect them to have considered that. Maybe thats FFP mark 3!

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

All you see is Villa fans complaining about FFP on Twitter. Wolves fans are the same, as are plenty more clubs. More people are aware why FFP was created now. It’s not UEFA’s and the top clubs little secret anymore.

It was the blindness of the clubs who voted for FFP when not existing members of the elite corps that will now bite them on the arse.

Shortsightedness of some chairmen and greed by the likes of Arsenal , Liverpool, United et al who voted in this pile of shite.

City and PSG becoming powerful will be causing the bent fuckers at UEFA nightmares .

 

[Manchester_lalala]

My only concern is that these constant attempts to halt our progress,could have shiek mansour deciding enoughs enough and prepare to sell up,god knows what goes on behind closed doors at meetings like the G14 or actual contact between say city and real or Barca all nicey nicely then when it’s over stabbing you in the back,I’m sure he’s frustrated I know we as fans are..

No chance our owners would pack up because some desperate pricks don’t want us at their party. We’ve got past the most difficult stage of FFP, it should be a breeze from here.

 

[Metalartin]

Reminds me of a tweet I saw earlier:



We have Liverpool, United with Arsenal possibly joining them in splashing the cash this Jan so they can all shut the fuck up if we buy much needed cover at CB and DM.

 

[deano ou812]

No chance our owners would pack up because some desperate pricks don’t want us at their party. We’ve got past the most difficult stage of FFP, it should be a breeze from here.

Yeah but these fuckers will just keep amending the rules to suit their needs,I couldn’t imagine being an owner and having these cnuts constantly thinking up ways to hamper us..