Re: Financial Fair Play will not affect us.
With the departure of players such as RSC, Bridge, Kolo, Maicon, Tevez and, earlier, Mario, our wage level will have moved dramatically towards where City want it to be, even allowing for our new recruits this summer. Now the next step is to do something about the cost of recruitment through the transfer market itself. If we succeed in recruiting Jovetic and Pepe, our net outlay for the summer will be somewhere around the £100m mark which isn't good news, but I think there could be a way of cooking the books to reduce these fees to a minimum.
I now ask someone who is knowledgeable in the rules of THIRD PARTY OWNERSHIP of players to step forward and answer a question. This is a matter that landed West Ham into trouble a few years ago with Tevez, but the practice is rife in South America and a number of European countries and it was one impediment in any attempt to sign Falcao as he was 'owned' by several agents.
So what I ask is this. Is there anything in the rules to either allow or prevent ADUG from signing a player, then LOANING that player to City for a minimal loan fee on the proviso that City paid his salary, then at the end of his loan period, City return the player to ADUG who would then free to sell him? There may be an issue with the player's registration, but if it is possible for a company to own a player in the same way that an agent can, then I see no problem with it, and such a measure would wipe out our huge transfer deficits at a stroke as ADUG would be carrying the risk instead of City.
