JoeMercer'sWay said:
Dribble said:
What has football become, when opposing fans are reduced to comparing sponsorship deals and turnovers?
Financial UnFair Play has a lot to answer for.......
football is a business, and what will scare the status quo more than anything is if FFPR does go, because City are proving to be a very effective and positive business model and will look like a lucrative model to new investors, who in a improving global climate, and with billions upon billions of untapped potential in the global football market, now have a clear business model to follow, which is ours.
I feel blessed that Sheikh Mansour has and continues to prove his business acumen from day one. Football has always been a business and more so nowadays with such huge sponsorship and TV revenues on offer.
What I find really sad is when I think back to days gone by, winning or losing was all I talked about in regards to football. Money was just something you either had or you didn't, but I suppose fans beiung able to disseminate information via the internet has spawned the lay accountant.
Words like 'amortisation' would have just got an 'eh' and 'what the fucks that got to do with football' from me years back. If nothing else, FFP has been a financial education....... :-)