In this regard, Manchester City undertakes to report a maximum break-even deficit of EUR 20 Mio. for the financial year ending in 2014 and a maximum break-even deficit of EUR 10 Mio. for the financial year ending in
Apologies for linking to the FFP loons web site but this image is a good one for how we were supposed to comply:
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As has been stated when the judgement came out, everything before 2013/14 is irrelevant to the way City are being analysed - so the way I read it, we have at least £30m in the transfer and wages kitty going forward should we wish to spend it. And thats before FFP deductions are made.
£23m loss announced
£16m of loss was FFP fine (€20m). That means...
£7m is our loss before other FFP deductions kick in
£+13m on the total we have available to spend on wages & transfers to comply with OUR FFP penalty fro the 2014/15 season.
Add an extra £50m a year from BASIC sponsorships. (£43m to permanently break even) and it can be seen that we have a huge amount of wriggle room to spend on wages & transfers.
The top wages in the world are £15,6m (including image rights) for Waynus Dickus & £13.3m (excluding image rights) for the Gelled Tumbler. For FFP purposes the figure for the Gelled Tumbler is the highest @£13.3m - as Image rights are NOT wages and are thus excluded from FFP.
As can be seen we could buy TWO players of the very highest quality over 5 year contracts and still just make a profit AND not breech our FFP penalty such is the strength of our accounts (FFP wages =£26.5m) Transfer Fees = £16.5m (gap) * 5 (years of contract to amortise salary over) £82.5m + Sales.
More likely one player of the very highest quality and 2 or 3 at the next level.
The only major issue we really face is the squad size limitation.
NOTE: EDITS DUE TO MIXING UP EUROS AND POUNDS!