BluessinceHydeRoad
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A couple of very well made points however you are coming at this soley from the point of view of Man City. In the hypothetical scenario where Man City are challenging FFP in Switzerland or Brussels or wherever UEFA will say they legislate for hundreds of clubs across Europe, just because Man City are the exemption to the rule it doesn't mean the rule should be changed. They will say that legislation has worked and produce mountains of evidence to prove their point. Man City themselves are evidence of a club competing right at the very top of the game while operating within the FFP parameters for the last few years.
Based on where City are now I don't see them going down that route, I think it will end at CAS win lose or draw.
What City would be showing is that FFP cannot achieve its declared aims. It is a ludicrous Alice in Wonderland style fantasy to suggest that the financial stability of a club can be improved by outlawing certain revenue streams and telling clubs that it isn't allowed some of its revenues from deals with non-related related parties. This is to take us into the realms of a curious dream world that tells us financially stable, very wealthy clubs are actually unstable because UEFA says so! Other clubs, whose debt is increasing every year, are models of financial prudence because UEFA decrees it. The FFP picture is a fiction and it has nothing to do with financial stability. If it aims at financial stability why is it called financial fair play? Why do UEFA raise no questions about Bayern's or Juve's genuinely related sponsorship deals worth far more than any we have? Why did Platini only ever talk about City's spending? Why did he admit to Martin Samuel that he gave in to constant pressure from the G 14 to introduce limits on owner investment because they couldn't compete with Abramovitch or Sheikh Mansour? FFP was introduced to protect the G 14 from competition. UEFA introduced FFP to benefit a handful of clubs not "the game" and it cannot discriminate against City in anyone's interests. "We have our rights."