How are clubs affording it without breaking FFP?

[Deleted member 77198]

This season seems like the first season in a long time where all the clubs have gone mental in the transfer market.
United are also about to blow another 85mil on Anthony.

But how earth are all the teams doing it without breaking FFP.
City have always needed to sell to splash the cash we had to sell Ferran Torres last season to compliment grealish.
Same with this season selling sterling, Jesus and zinchenko.

United’s turnover is about £580m a year. They could afford to spend what they have every transfer window.

 

[Blue back home]

United’s turnover is about £580m a year. They could afford to spend what they have every transfer window.

But they lose money and are massively in debt. They might be a cash generating machine but if they develop the ground will be a debt ridden cesspit.

 

[blueparrot]

United’s turnover is about £580m a year. They could afford to spend what they have every transfer window.

Ours is about that too, turnover has nothing to do with it anyway, profit and wage bills are the FFP triggers.
This will need to be a one off

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I still think it stinks that the bigger you are the more money you can spend. Its anti competitive

 

[ninjamonkey]

Simple answer is the Premier league is awash with money, all teams can spend in the 100's of millions comfortably, the big 6 a lot more.

They don't because they have owners who have crippled their club with debt that needs paying for every year or they decide to siphon off millions a year in dividends out of the club and out of the game into their own back pockets.

This is why it's laughable when rival fans ask what's happened to ffp when we spend £100 million one window despite bringing in over half a billion in revenue every year now

 

[waspish]

United’s turnover is about £580m a year. They could afford to spend what they have every transfer window.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

United’s turnover is about £580m a year. They could afford to spend what they have every transfer window.

They let a fair few players’ contracts expire too. That creates wriggle room too.

 

[Keeper!]

White American owners, that's how.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Ours is about that too, turnover has nothing to do with it anyway, profit and wage bills are the FFP triggers.
This will need to be a one off

Ours was about £50m more and I think we operate at about 60% of our turnover on wages.

That’s why Newcastle can’t really spend yet as their turnover is about £140m and their wage bill is up at 80+% of their turnover.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Ah there it is, indeed… City with around £88m more than United.