If the market falls as a result of 2.0 or there are more Bosmans then yes but I've no idea what will happen but as Martin Samuel points out clubs like AC Milan and Napoli are not too happy that Leicester have more money to spend and want to limit it.
Oh of course.
But it could bite them on the arse. It might be that Leicester are actually better than them, playing in a better league & in a couple of years can buy their best player for 90 mil rather than him costing 200.
It kind of makes sense why we are spending big this transfer window and why Arsenal might be going big as well. You miss this boat and you could be well and truely fucked for years to come.I think there is potential chaos ahead. And players/ agents will want to get their holidays done, around he world cup, then the transfer window shutting early here. Everyone trying to get in before ffp changes.
Which is why we are getting it done now & also seem to be hoovering up some kids. I'd be surprised if Fred isn't a done deal too.
The ECA are running out of ideas with FFP. I met one of the guys that drew up the original rules at a wedding recently and as we expected it really was aimed at stopping another Leeds situation (debt) and another he mentioned which was in Germany but it was jumped on by the big clubs as a way of helping themselves to more pie and completely altered to suit them.
Trouble is UEFA are afraid of a breakaway I'm sure they would be happy to forget about FFP but Bayern will not leave it.
Whatever they do, it won't stop us, because the thing none of these fucks understand, is that the reason we are climbing past most of them, is not purely down to money, it's because we are infinitely better run, as a business, than they are.
Platini openly admitted this in an interview a few years ago. He said essentially that ideally UEFA didn't want to restrict investment into clubs at all but "they" have threatened to break away if they didn't, so what could they do? Personally I don't see why UEFA haven't at some point grown some balls and told the big clubs to piss off. It's pretty obvious that it's like being blackmailed, once you start giving into demands you're on an endless road of being held to ransom and goal posts being shifted. Should have just done what they wanted in the first place, done what they thought was right for football and lived with the consequences rather than trying to keep a handful of greedy clubs happy at the expense of the other hundreds or thousands of clubs that they have a duty to consider.Trouble is UEFA are afraid of a breakaway I'm sure they would be happy to forget about FFP but Bayern will not leave it.
Platini openly admitted this in an interview a few years ago. He said essentially that ideally UEFA didn't want to restrict investment into clubs at all but "they" have threatened to break away if they didn't, so what could they do? Personally I don't see why UEFA haven't at some point grown some balls and told the big clubs to piss off. It's pretty obvious that it's like being blackmailed, once you start giving into demands you're on an endless road of being held to ransom and goal posts being shifted. Should have just done what they wanted in the first place, done what they thought was right for football and lived with the consequences rather than trying to keep a handful of greedy clubs happy at the expense of the other hundreds or thousands of clubs that they have a duty to consider.
That is what some people advocated when the 'Big 5' were forming the breakawy premier league!Considering that UEFA invite clubs to play in their tournaments, they could have threatened clubs like the rags and Bayern that they wouldn't receive an invite if they didn't tow the line.
The clubs may have threatened to breakaway, but how long would that take to oraganise, how much revenue would they miss out on in the meantime and how many clubs would actually make the leap with them
Well this latest incarnation will be interesting because personally I wouldn't have thought it would particularly suit the likes of united and Arsenal who were so obviously leading players behind the last load of bollocks. So what will UEFA do if they have united and Arsenal not happy but the likes of Bayern and Barca pushing for this? Maybe UEFA need to just say that it's not their job to bring in arbitrary financial hoops that clubs need to jump through, scrap FFP and just do their job of running their fucking tournaments. If some clubs don't like that, they can take their ball and play between themselves. Personally, even if some aspects of FFP suit us, I would love our club to take this to court properly and blow the whole thing apart, we should have done it years ago as a matter of principle to teach ****s like gill a lesson.Considering that UEFA invite clubs to play in their tournaments, they could have threatened clubs like the rags and Bayern that they wouldn't receive an invite if they didn't tow the line.
The clubs may have threatened to breakaway, but how long would that take to oraganise, how much revenue would they miss out on in the meantime and how many clubs would actually make the leap with them
Does the PL need UEFA/ECL more or less than UEFA needs PL?Platini openly admitted this in an interview a few years ago. He said essentially that ideally UEFA didn't want to restrict investment into clubs at all but "they" have threatened to break away if they didn't, so what could they do? Personally I don't see why UEFA haven't at some point grown some balls and told the big clubs to piss off. It's pretty obvious that it's like being blackmailed, once you start giving into demands you're on an endless road of being held to ransom and goal posts being shifted. Should have just done what they wanted in the first place, done what they thought was right for football and lived with the consequences rather than trying to keep a handful of greedy clubs happy at the expense of the other hundreds or thousands of clubs that they have a duty to consider.