PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Prestwich_Blue said:
Because they'll just put self-interest over wider issues. This has long been the case in the EFL, where obvious changes for the better that would benefit the collective have been voted down because many of the clubs think that it might negatively impact them at some future point.

If you're not already aware of it, Google 'Tragedy of the Commons'.

Aristotle even recognised the phenomenon over 2,000 years ago "What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than for what they possess in common with others."
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Seen it all now: Aristotle quoted on BM. You won’t find that on RAWK. Well done PB, a touch of class.
 
domalino said:
Nope, I never said a word of that.

I said the Premier League is a collective of 20 companies each looking out for their own interests and doing so incredibly successfully, and that anyone who thinks 1 club is being singled out by the other 19 (or a subdivision therein) and is using the proposal of rules that woud benefit City and do net harm to the "cartel" to convince themselves of that is a conspiracy wack job.
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Can I sign up to this wack job unit?

I would love to believe in a fair football pyramid but it doesn’t exist. Money does exists and those with loads of it and political power normally come out winners. The rest is a make believe fairytale.

Rags to riches every now and again to create the illusion of fairness. The game is rigged to benefit commercial powerhouses who have injected said club with a ton of cash to get the ball rolling.
 
mexico1970 said:
Lest we forget.

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Wanker alert. Can you start posting spoilers before unleashing these corrupt cunts on us? -:)
 
halfcenturyup said:
Fair enough. That's interesting. I will look some more if this actually happens.

So you think it will be based a percentage of a club's revenues? Isn't that how the "cartel" maintains its advantage? The investment to move into the elite must be prohibitive?

And why would you do all this? Why not just stick to UEFA rules and fine for anything over 70% of revenue based on defined financial sanctions? Seems unneccesarily complicated to me at first glance.
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Again, you’re coming at this from the angle of “the PL” protecting the “cartel clubs” instead of being 20 independent businesses voting for themselves.

PL owners want to protect the investment they’ve already made, see it grow by being a fantastic “product” and have a chance to realise it by cashing out in the future.

They want to have some spending rules in place so they personally aren’t bailing out the club every year, they want competitive football across the division but they don’t want to block all investors who could buy the club off them.

FFP did 1 but not the others. They’re now rewriting the rules after 15 years to get all 3.
 
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