BluessinceHydeRoad
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Re: City & FFP (continued)
Yesterday's meeting was largely an irrelevance: lots of talking, no decisions taken, nothing changed but massive posturing. The presence of Dupont hung over proceedings. Both sides still have to play their cards very close to their chest because they both have to take into account the consequences of an adverse result in court.
Rummenigge has to try and project an image other than the bigoted, ranting fanatic who plans to plant his jack boots all over the balls of anyone who shows signs of frustrating Bayern's plans; yesterday he was the statesman eschewing coercion in favour of the reason which had converted Abramovitch and filled everyone with whom he had discussed FFP with "positive" thoughts. Platini was the born leader who, now that FFP had saved football from the destruction threatened,might now be prepared to consider some fine tuning which might make fair play fairer by tackling the problem of debt, letting some owners spend a bit of their own money and so on. Might. This is to convince everyone that UEFA isn't really the poodle of a Munich paymaster and a group of Yankie carpetbaggers, but the dedicated guardians of European football. And Berlusconi was simply hawking his begging bowl round to trying to cadge a place in the CL even though his clapped out club can't qualify. After all, Arsenal are only just better. The court has to be convinced that these groups are genuinely trying to be fair to all in the interests of European football. Despite some fairly convincing recent evidence to the contrary.
Then there's City and PSG. Despite the covert war they have waged against FFP for as long as anyone can remember, they daren't get involved in legal action and they have to operate within UEFA if Dupont loses. They can't come straight out and say that FFP is the typical bent product of an arrogant German who thinks he's in the ascendant and a French appeaser with a dodgy, trembly pair of knees and should be consigned to the dustbin. So City come up with a ludicrous scheme to extend the break even period beyond the horizon. "Well, Michel, we don't think FFP is quite the load of bollocks everyone else does..."
The decision will be made in court, and yesterday was simply jostling for position.
Yesterday's meeting was largely an irrelevance: lots of talking, no decisions taken, nothing changed but massive posturing. The presence of Dupont hung over proceedings. Both sides still have to play their cards very close to their chest because they both have to take into account the consequences of an adverse result in court.
Rummenigge has to try and project an image other than the bigoted, ranting fanatic who plans to plant his jack boots all over the balls of anyone who shows signs of frustrating Bayern's plans; yesterday he was the statesman eschewing coercion in favour of the reason which had converted Abramovitch and filled everyone with whom he had discussed FFP with "positive" thoughts. Platini was the born leader who, now that FFP had saved football from the destruction threatened,might now be prepared to consider some fine tuning which might make fair play fairer by tackling the problem of debt, letting some owners spend a bit of their own money and so on. Might. This is to convince everyone that UEFA isn't really the poodle of a Munich paymaster and a group of Yankie carpetbaggers, but the dedicated guardians of European football. And Berlusconi was simply hawking his begging bowl round to trying to cadge a place in the CL even though his clapped out club can't qualify. After all, Arsenal are only just better. The court has to be convinced that these groups are genuinely trying to be fair to all in the interests of European football. Despite some fairly convincing recent evidence to the contrary.
Then there's City and PSG. Despite the covert war they have waged against FFP for as long as anyone can remember, they daren't get involved in legal action and they have to operate within UEFA if Dupont loses. They can't come straight out and say that FFP is the typical bent product of an arrogant German who thinks he's in the ascendant and a French appeaser with a dodgy, trembly pair of knees and should be consigned to the dustbin. So City come up with a ludicrous scheme to extend the break even period beyond the horizon. "Well, Michel, we don't think FFP is quite the load of bollocks everyone else does..."
The decision will be made in court, and yesterday was simply jostling for position.
