Quite. Most importantly FFP has allowed legacy clubs to borrow money and spend well beyond their means in a vain attempt to maintain their dominant positions whilst simultaneously effectively banning other owners making legitimate equity investments in their businesses from their own legitimate resources. How anyone can think that’s fair or reasonable is beyond me.No we wouldn't be happy but FFP doesn't even create "an illusion of a fair playing field" - what it does do is protect certain clubs (we all know which ones) from their poor investment decisions while ensuring that other clubs continue to suffer from periods of failure on the pitch and their consequent inability to invest. And these were the coldly calculated intentions of FFP.
Yes as with every other business and industry on the fucking planet. It would be City’s choice whether to accept the bud or not, the player’s choice whether to move and we’d have £350m to spend however the fuck we wanted.So if the Qatar Tourism Authority bought Liverpool for example and bid £350 million for KdB & Foden combined and they left being paid £500,000 a week each you'd be happy?
Fuck me. One would expect a City, if any fan, would understand that FFP is absolutely anything BUT about making anything a “fair playing field”. What guff.FFP might be flawed in it's present form but there does need to be at least an illusion of a fair playing field
Of course they were but we managed to get in just before the drawbridge was raised. That doesn't make it right for everybody else though purely because 'we're all right Jack'. This isn't the thread for it but there has to be a better version of FFP which gives everybody a fighting chance (as long as it's not the American model).No we wouldn't be happy but FFP doesn't even create "an illusion of a fair playing field" - what it does do is protect certain clubs (we all know which ones) from their poor investment decisions while ensuring that other clubs continue to suffer from periods of failure on the pitch and their consequent inability to invest. And these were the coldly calculated intentions of FFP.
There's no way that every club would be taken over though, so you might add 1 or 2 to the rich clubs list but the others would still be fucked. This is where the ESL originated from in the first place.I’d rather that than the current arrangements whereby they could go into a massive amount of debt in order to do what you suggest and that would somehow be fine, at least according to the rules.
If Newcastle got taken over and started splashing the cash, I’d say good luck to them. Anything to get another club trying to break the untouchables, as they once thought they were.
I'm not talking about it's present form which is addressed in my post. No control at all would make leagues across Europe even more lopsided than they are now.Fuck me. One would expect a City, if any fan, would understand that FFP is absolutely anything BUT about making anything a “fair playing field”. What guff.
Who claimed it was out of interest?... How anyone can think that’s fair or reasonable is beyond me.
He had read it and understood it was a steaming pile of cow turd.Try reading the whole post.
You okay hun?He had read it and understood it was a steaming pile of cow turd.
No it wouldn’t. Since FFP Munich have won 9 in a row, Juve won 7 in 8 row, PSG 6 in 7 etc.I'm not talking about it's present form which is addressed in my post. No control at all would make leagues across Europe even more lopsided than they are now.