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Plaything of the gods said:chris63 said:Also http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...se-with-city-over-financial-role-8662638.htmlFormer Manchester United chief executive David Gill has been handed power by UEFA to recommend bans on clubs such as rivals Manchester City and Chelsea, who may find themselves in breach of new European Financial Fair Play rules.
Having stepped down from his post at Old Trafford at the end of last season to become a UEFA executive member, Gill has now been appointed chairman of the governing body’s extremely influential Club Licensing Committee.
The committee essentially decides which clubs are entitled to licences to play Champions League and Europa League football. This will become increasingly important as UEFA’s FFP rules shape the landscape of European football in the coming years.
Gill is a known advocate of FFP and one of four Barclays Premier League chiefs who proposed similar rules be implemented in English domestic football back in January.
He said 18 months ago that the new European system would only work if ‘appropriate sanctions’ were imposed on those who missed the targets. Sanctions already discussed by UEFA president Michel Platini have included fines and, for severe offences, competition bans.
Gill’s appointment will certainly raise eyebrows at clubs such as City and Chelsea who are currently striving to ensure their losses are no greater than the 845million (£38m) limit allowed by FFP across last and next season.
Both clubs have been used to viewing Gill as a rival in recent years and it will not have escaped their attention that the 55-year-old is to remain a United director and board member, despite handing over the chief executive baton to Ed Woodward.
On Monday night, a UEFA spokeswoman confirmed that Gill’s committee will have an influence over whether clubs’ finances entitle them to play in major European competition.
This is despite that fact that the Club Financial Control Body will go through individual clubs’ finances initially to see if they meet the targets set by FFP. Gill will play no role in this part of the process.
Does this mean he will have access to the financial accounts of the other clubs? If to have that access isn't a conflict of interest, I don't know what is.David Gill, the former Manchester United chief executive who has been an ardent advocate of Financial Fair Play (FFP), will chair the Uefa committee with ultimate power to recommend bans on clubs in breach of the new spending rules.
After becoming a Uefa executive committee member, Gill (below) has been appointed to chair the club licensing committee, a move which could antagonise Manchester City, who hope to reduce £97m losses to the aggregate €45m (£38m) limit allowable by FFP across last and next season.
A Uefa spokeswoman said that the licensing committee will have influence over whether clubs' finances entitle them to a licence to play Champions League or Europa League football.
Gill's committee "monitors the implementation and achievement of the objectives of the Uefa club licensing system" – which analysts believe would allow it to make new recommendations about clubs' entitlement to a licence, if FFP is not seen to be working out as intended.
Gill, who remains a United board member, will exert no control over of Uefa's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), which will next month begin combing through the accounts of clubs who want to compete in European competitions. But his committee will oversee the entire licensing system.
The leading FFP analyst Daniel Geey, a solicitor and sports lawyer with Field Fisher Waterhouse, has raised the prospect of a club finding itself in breach of FFP by the CFCB just as they reach the semi-finals of next season's Champions League – and thus being expelled – or even having the title withdrawn after lifting the trophy.
That is because the CFCB will only be able to verify whether a club has complied with the financial rules after accounts from both the 2011-12 and the 2012-13 seasons have been received. For clubs, whose year end is March, the accounts won't be available until next season's knockout stages. "If a non-compliant club wins the Champions League in May 2014, they could be sanctioned by having their title removed," Geey wrote.
"The licensing requirements would not bar that club from participating in the competition in the first place. From Uefa's perspective, it is difficult to see how they can get the requisite financial information earlier in order to make decisions."
the mind boggles on how a director on the board of any football club can have power to stop other clubs competing in a different role he also has for uefa!!!!!!! :O
only in football!