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

Here is Wenger's rant on the subject in today's Telegraph...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ays-key-arsenal-players-tapped-4-0-liverpool/

And my comment...
Financial Fair Play, or to give it it's proper name "Fix Football Permanently", is simply a device to create a cartel of well off football teams who cannot be challenged. Indeed, any regulatory instrument that doesn't treat debt the same as wages and transfer fees whilst treating Gate revenue, TV revenue, sponsorship and investment differently can only be device to maintain a cartel.

Sadly for Wenger he has suddenly realised that to rebuild Arsenal will cost a fortune and that Arsenal will be hit by the same rules they helped create - mainly as a result of his incompitence.

As a City fan, to see Arsenal hoisted by their own Petard is delicious schadenfreude.
 
BlueAnorak said:
Here is Wenger's rant on the subject in today's Telegraph...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...ays-key-arsenal-players-tapped-4-0-liverpool/

And my comment...
Financial Fair Play, or to give it it's proper name "Fix Football Permanently", is simply a device to create a cartel of well off football teams who cannot be challenged. Indeed, any regulatory instrument that doesn't treat debt the same as wages and transfer fees whilst treating Gate revenue, TV revenue, sponsorship and investment differently can only be device to maintain a cartel.

Sadly for Wenger he has suddenly realised that to rebuild Arsenal will cost a fortune and that Arsenal will be hit by the same rules they helped create - mainly as a result of his incompitence.

As a City fan, to see Arsenal hoisted by their own Petard is delicious schadenfreude.
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Yeah, some very contradictory comments from Wenger there. On the one hand he's having a swipe at FFP, implying the rules aren't strict enough and hinting that City and others are cheating FFP (he's implying it in a more subtle way than Tebas), but on the other he's saying it should be scrapped completely and we should invite heavy investment into clubs from all over the globe in order to maintain the strength of the Premier League.

I would add that while I think Wenger should keep his gob shut (not least because FFP hasn't "failed" as he puts it, and has had some positive effects such as bringing overall losses down amongst European clubs in general), that this could also be a swipe at the Arsenal board for their lack of spending. After all, he's only been an advocate of clubs "living within their means" since Arsenal decided to go that way. Before that, he was more than happy to spend Danny Fiszman's money and before that he was more than happy managing Monaco who, to coin a phrase popularised by Wenger himself, were the very definition of a "financially doped" club at the time.
 
What a complete tool Wenger is. When you break all this down the realisation of Arsenals position has obviously sunk in. He will want FFP applied to whoever HE deems it necessary but then taken completely out of the equation for the arse and dare I say it the other " big clubs". Hypocrisy doesn't come anywhere near describing this tit. Really hope he crash and burns this season.
 
Wenger's always been in an idiot. When there was two group stages in the CL he kicked off saying there was too many games. When they got rid of it he kicked off again that they'd got rid of it.
 
It's not obvious whether this is tongue in cheek from Wenger and a way of saying we are where we are because we play by the rules and others don't, or whether he is genuinely worried about the impact of FFP on Arsenal in future seasons. Could they spend £92m on Lemar? The Premier Leagues own financial regulation impacted on Arsenal this Summer according to reports.
 
Roachy said:
What a complete tool Wenger is. When you break all this down the realisation of Arsenals position has obviously sunk in. He will want FFP applied to whoever HE deems it necessary but then taken completely out of the equation for the arse and dare I say it the other " big clubs". Hypocrisy doesn't come anywhere near describing this tit. Really hope he crash and burns this season.
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100% this. But when you think about he always wanted FFP applied to clubs who could endanger Arsenals position, so these new statements are just the natural continuation of what he has always been trying to achieve.
 
Marvin said:
It's not obvious whether this is tongue in cheek from Wenger and a way of saying we are where we are because we play by the rules and others don't, or whether he is genuinely worried about the impact of FFP on Arsenal in future seasons. Could they spend £92m on Lemar? The Premier Leagues own financial regulation impacted on Arsenal this Summer according to reports.
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Its the premier league ffp rules that he should be worried about and why Arsenal only bought 1 player.
 
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