UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[kaz7]

when did he say that

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore hopes defending champions Manchester City face a stiffer challenge in the coming season.

City sealed the title with five games to spare last term and finished 19 points ahead of second place.

"It doesn't take away from City's excellence, but we want the season to go to the last," said Scudamore.

"I'd like multiple trophies needed in various locations on the last day because we don't know how it will end."

Scudamore, who will end a 19-year tenure in December,added: "I'd like someone to get a little bit closer to Manchester City.

"Clearly, given the way they played last season, they look like the team to beat

He wouldnt have said that if the dippers had won with their big margin


Last season he said this

'It's an incredible situation and Liverpool will probably not win the league and that's very sad in some ways

Before that the brands need a succesful rags team

Never has he said us winning the title is a good thing

 

[The Colonel]

The only way to avoid legal action imo is to void all league seasons.

Handing a title to one club and not others will lead to the courts it is that simple.

That said i couldn't really give a rats arse what they do such is my interest in football right now.

let them eat each other for all i care.

I think that the only way is to continue the leagues whenever considered safe to do so, and take the consequences with UEFA (whom would probably fall into line anyway)

 

[Tracking back]

when did he say that

He's made reference to this on a couple of occasions.

The last time he mentioned something about how the premier league are working towards putting in measures that enable "different" clubs to win the league.

They never seemed to worry too much when the rags were winning it every year. I've been saying it for years now. The premier league has a single unified mantra "Anyone but Manchester City".

 

[stonerblue]

The reality is that football needs saving from itself. The majority of football in England lives hand to mouth in abject poverty - sentimentally preserving national structures it cannot afford. A major restructure of lower league football is long overdue... Bury, Oldham and Macclesfield are the tip of the iceberg. At the upper end Football is awash with revenues from TV but there was never a guarantee that the tv windfall would last forever. Moreover, football has become greedy, wasteful and bloated and hasn’t spent its income that wisely. Ridiculous transfer fees, ludicrous agents fees and wages that simply can’t be justified on any measure - sees clubs effectively mortgaged to the hilt - clubs like United have pre spent the next 3 years Sky income and more already - Sanchez is on £2m a month and he’s got just over 2 years left on his contract - that’s circa £50m pre committed on someone who’ll probably never play for them again. This day of reckoning was always coming and football is over exposed - even football crazy people like me have tired of the sheer number of televised games, biased punditry, idiotic media coverage, VAR etc.. the game isn’t in particularly good health and needs to retreat from the corporate bollocks and reconnect with its grass roots. Football is not in a great place and unfortunately it’s has a bunch of corrupt fuckwits running it - so the future could be bleak because I see no visionaries in fact the majority of people at the PL, FA and UEFA are struggling just now to contemplate basic reality or even a sense of decency in the midst of a global pandemic.

Fantastic post

 

[ganganvince]

when did he say that

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/45111142

 

[remember arthur mann]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/45111142

 

[Kenward Garg]

My teachers at school applied it to me regularly.

Same here. I’ve always had “issues” with authority.

 

[Kenward Garg]

He didn't say that. Thought he implied Manu winning was good for the product.

You’re right. It was implied.

 

[Bald fraud]

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore hopes defending champions Manchester City face a stiffer challenge in the coming season.

City sealed the title with five games to spare last term and finished 19 points ahead of second place.

"It doesn't take away from City's excellence, but we want the season to go to the last," said Scudamore.

"I'd like multiple trophies needed in various locations on the last day because we don't know how it will end."

Scudamore, who will end a 19-year tenure in December,added: "I'd like someone to get a little bit closer to Manchester City.

"Clearly, given the way they played last season, they look like the team to beat

He wouldnt have said that if the dippers had won with their big margin


Last season he said this

'It's an incredible situation and Liverpool will probably not win the league and that's very sad in some ways

Before that the brands need a succesful rags team

Never has he said us winning the title is a good thing

Because they don’t make any money from us winning simple as

 

[Kenward Garg]

As many of the posters are hinting we are seeing more and more clearly that, hidden by the verbose, legalistic phraseology in which clause after clause of FFP is couched, lies the truly farcical reality of these "regulations". UEFA was never a body which had the credibility or authority or right to regulate the financial activity of football clubs, those "officials" who laid down its aims and objectives (the true ones never to be revealed to anyone) were a bunch of dishonest, self-seeking rip-off merchants and those drafted in to draw up their regulations were chosen carefully to ensure their loyalty to the plan. What emerged was not a code of law or anything like it but a scheme with one target and only one, and it had nothing to do with financial stability. I was not surprised when, in 2013 and '14 I did not read the opinion of one single serious legal analyst who thought that these regulations could withstand a challenge in court, but they have limped on painfully and irrelevantly, as debt in the game and particularly the debt carried by Europe's "biggest" (and smallest!) clubs grows and grows, as UEFA grits its teeth and takes up the cudgels to try and restore financial stability to a club with no debt and burgeoning revenues by showing a fierce determination to punish it a second time for something it had only done the first time because of sharp practice by UEFA. But then a real crisis comes along, a truly existential crisis that has paragons of virtue such as Liverpool! and Spurs! reaching for the smelling salts and begging for state aid. Not the benefit of FFP but the state aid that is not allowed under any circumstances. And FFP's role in steadying the ship? None! The regulations are to be "relaxed" when we see just how far they've failed in fact to guarantee the financial stability of the clubs. Thus after buggering about with them in 2009, tinkering with them in 2015 and "relaxing" them at some unspecified time in the future, it is to be hoped that City's challenges in court are sufficient to consign them to the only place for which they are fit - the dustbin. This might lead to the exit of all those criminals who have seized control of UEFA and City, not Trump, will actually and in reality, have "drained the swamp".

Eloquently put.