City & FFP | 2020/21 Accounts released | Revenues of £569.8m, £2.4m profit (p 2395)

I think the people in charge at City know full well what they're doing with regards our finances. I don't know why it worries people so much on how much we're spending, wages etc. Just let the other nineteen prem clubs fret at our amazingly strong squad.
 
i dont pretend to know the insides and outs of football finance (and i think anyone truly does) but the gulf between what really happens and how it is reported in the contemporary media is vast. I think i only ever see the word amortisation (or the practice of) mentioned in more finance-based sites or cerebral websites such as sporting intelligence etc. The way the media portrays A + B - C = FFP simplifies the thing dangerously so that nothing else in the world matters apart from a couple of transfers of a summer.

i mean the british public are pretty stupid but we still need the facts. who am i kidding, it'll never happen.
 
cerebral websites such as sporting intelligence
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We can be absolutely certain that whatever we have spent, is within the FFP boundaries & have no worries on that score. No way would they risk that, at this stage.

What I would be interested to know, is if City have benefitted from the new 'relaxation' of rules which has been brought in to help Berlusconi & Co. UEFA originally said that City would not be allowed any 'relaxation' but the media & that bitter fucking twat at Arsenal, keep claiming we have. City should clarify this & rub their noses in it, if it's not true.

It would also be interesting to have some idea of just how much money City could have spent. Whether we are close to the limit, or whether we could have also bought Pogba for instance. Don't suppose we will find that out in a hurry though.

Hopefully for some years now, we will mainly only need to strengthen 'cheaper' positions, bring through a few kids & sign one 'big' player every few seasons on average. We will need to splash out on gradually replacing/reinforcing Yaya & Fernandinho's positions over the coming years but we should have time now to pick & chose targets.

Eventually DS,VK & Aguero will need to be replaced but again we should be in a comfortable position to find the exact players to do that, in the future, rather than being in a huge hurry. We may be able to actually build a large fund, to be in the bidding should a new Messi come along.

What we must do, is 'freshen up' the attack regularly, even if it's just with kids. That keeps the 'buzz' going & stops things from getting stale.
 
it is useful to know the concepts by way which City "get away with spending all this cash" under FFP so as to rebuff all the crap that comes from supporters of other teams about City trampling all over FFP - if I have this right then:-

- amortization of transfer fees across 5 year contract periods
- the dropping off of huge chunks of amortized fees from 2009/2010/2011
- huge TV money increases
- massively increasing sponsor revenue

are the key to our success in this1
 
It would also be interesting to have some idea of just how much money City could have spent. Whether we are close to the limit, or whether we could have also bought Pogba for instance. Don't suppose we will find that out in a hurry though.
November 2017. If we turn a profit of £20m or more we could have signed him instead of Otamendi.
 

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