How Would YOU Design Football Finance Law?

[Irlamblue]

50% taxation on any red stadium seats

 

[Blue Til Death]

No holds barred, let the businesses spend what they want, like every other businesses do and like they used to do before City started doing what the red tops have been doing for 50 years..!
If clubs go out of business that’s on them ..

 

[Cobwebcat]

No holds barred, let the businesses spend what they want, like every other businesses do and like they used to do before City started doing what the red tops have been doing for 50 years..!
If clubs go out of business that’s on them ..

It sounds harsh but there is something to be said for this. Soccernomics points out that football club’s “customers” are not like that of a normal business and stay loyal. They just start again and hardly ever disappear forever.

That said I think there are even better ways to have a free market and yet preserve competition.

 

[Gray]

Spend what you like and if you go bust hard luck.

Simple.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

make all teams who play in red or white be allowed to do what they want.

ooops already do

 

[KS55]

1. Financial: Limited to an agreed debt limit. Some small regs re community assets.
2. Competition: Accept that football is a business in which there will always be big fish and small fish. Competition regs should aim at fairness, not equality of outcome. So you might be talking about limiting total spend on players: transfers, agents fees, salary etc. Limit based on %age of turnover. Promoted
clubs to be exempt for three years, with debt as the limiting factor.
3. Regulatory regime: Found a National Football Trust. They would appoint and pay the independent regulator. (Stops gov interference which FIFA outlaws.)
Regulator’s decisions to be final. Clubs have no vote.
Every club to fund the trust with 0.5% of turnover each year.
The trust to act as a backstop in cases where community clubs like Bury are in danger. Subject to strict business plan for the rescued club.
4. All clubs to be registered British PLCs, Limited Partnerships or Charities and Trusts. NO OFFSHORING.
5. All club assets to be owned by the club alone. No transferring the stadium to a director or owner, for example.
6. Breaches. Breaches to be punished by financial measures only. Eg no increasing player costs for x years, as well as fines. No points deductions, if financial measures are strong enough.
7. UEFA rules to be followed, no silly ‘associated’ nonsense or any other illogical additions.
8. 30% of all match tickets to be subject to a maximum specified by the regulator.
9. #thismeansfiveinarow.

 

[Gordyola]

I would ensure that clubs couldn’t go bust so, the restrictions would be that any spending and debt had to be match 100% by the owners whatever is spent in a year has to be matched by the same amount being placed Ina an ESCROW account this prevents any spending that isn’t covered I’d encourage investment into infrastructure woman’s team and academy other than that fill your boots
As an aside I’d look at a FIFA wide formula for setting transfer fees

 

[Gordyola]

1. Financial: Limited to an agreed debt limit. Some small regs re community assets.
2. Competition: Accept that football is a business in which there will always be big fish and small fish. Competition regs should aim at fairness, not equality of outcome. So you might be talking about limiting total spend on players: transfers, agents fees, salary etc. Limit based on %age of turnover. Promoted
clubs to be exempt for three years, with debt as the limiting factor.
3. Regulatory regime: Found a National Football Trust. They would appoint and pay the independent regulator. (Stops gov interference which FIFA outlaws.)
Regulator’s decisions to be final. Clubs have no vote.
Every club to fund the trust with 0.5% of turnover each year.
The trust to act as a backstop in cases where community clubs like Bury are in danger. Subject to strict business plan for the rescued club.
4. All clubs to be registered British PLCs, Limited Partnerships or Charities and Trusts. NO OFFSHORING.
5. All club assets to be owned by the club alone. No transferring the stadium to a director or owner, for example.
6. Breaches. Breaches to be punished by financial measures only. Eg no increasing player costs for x years, as well as fines. No points deductions, if financial measures are strong enough.
7. UEFA rules to be followed, no silly ‘associated’ nonsense or any other illogical additions.
8. 30% of all match tickets to be subject to a maximum specified by the regulator.
9. #thismeansfiveinarow.

Aside from 2 and limiting to % of t/o as this aids the clubs with the most. I agree

 

[franksinatra]

My plan would be the following:

1). Set a spending cap on all clubs to enable a level playing field.

2) Do not link it to revenue of clubs so if club owners wish to
Invest up to the spending cap they can.

3) If club owners wish to invest they can but they cannot place debt on the football clubs (To prevent clubs significantly overspending and risk bankruptcy)

4) Owners to provide a surety covering 12 months of a clubs outgoing to prevent clubs spending above their means and then the benefactors walking away leaving the club straddled with debt.

 

[Tarnats left peg]

1. All debt must be at zero before transfers can be carried out as ffp was first introduced to stop clubs going into debt with funds they don’t have.
2. You can only spend monies that are in the clubs transfer accounts so if owners want to invest they can as long as they show they have the funds upfront so as not to leave the clubs in crisis if they decide to leave/sell up.
3. I agree with the transfers between clubs owned by the same owner being fair market value.