La Liga want Man City investigation

[MillionMilesAway]

Then they were as compliant as PSG by agreeing his release clause when his contract was drawn up.

I think all contracts in Spain have to have a release clause.

 

[Jazzman]

I think FFP is a great idea. It's the implementation that is crap that is designed to maintain a cartel. Through reasonably good planning, we got into the golden trough and certain clubs (and many in the mediah) don't like it.
I'd love proper and fair FFP rules but that is never going to happen in a million years if debt is not counted as equal to wages and transfer fees.

Real financial fair play would be if every club had the same amount of money available. I suppose the closest system is the US NFL or NBA, but also there I guess some are more equal than others. I am not sure it can be really done, and I find it a strange idea to forbid anybody to invest money in their own business. Applied in the high tech world where I am at home it would mean no start ups. It is a truly bizarre idea, and the only purpose it serves is to protect the interests of those already rich.

 

[SWP's back]

Technically yes, but hardly fair. Both Etihad and Etisalat are commercial organisations putting any sponsorship deals through their books. Saying sponsorship from these two is state aid would be the same as saying the RBS six Nations is state funded!

Whilst you're right, so are the Qatari firms sponsoring PSG. So it's either both or neither

 

[SWP's back]

I think the owner's intent in relation to being self-sustaining is suitably demonstrated by the fact the Etihad deal hasn't been renegotiated, some seven years(?) in.

Although we don't know that for a fact and some journalist mentioned earlier in the thread is convinced it has been and is now upwards of 85m euro per year.

 

[SWP's back]

I think FFP is a great idea.

I don't. There's no justification for disallowing someone from investing in their own company. It doesn't exist in the rest of the business world.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

It would be a topic for another thread perhaps, but if the world of cricket can conjure up some mystical way of deciding a terminated game, ie the Duckworth Lewis formula, then surely it's not beyond combined brain power of UEFA (7 on the IQ score) to develop a binding transfer system based on the remaining length of a player's contract, the length of a new contract being offered by a bidding club, his present pay deal, and the bidding club's pay offer, plus an extra percentage for a selling club as compensation for having their plans disrupted by the unexpected loss of a player. If such a formula was devised and each transfer could only happen after UEFA had vetted a move, then financial doping would be dropped immediately.

 

[Jazzman]

It would be a topic for another thread perhaps, but if the world of cricket can conjure up some mystical way of deciding a terminated game, ie the Duckworth Lewis formula, then surely it's not beyond combined brain power of UEFA (7 on the IQ score) to develop a binding transfer system based on the remaining length of a player's contract, the length of a new contract being offered by a bidding club, his present pay deal, and the bidding club's pay offer, plus an extra percentage for a selling club as compensation for having their plans disrupted by the unexpected loss of a player. If such a formula was devised and each transfer could only happen after UEFA had vetted a move, then financial doping would be dropped immediately.

What is financial doping ?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Although we don't know that for a fact and some journalist mentioned earlier in the thread is convinced it has been and is now upwards of 85m euro per year.

I'd be surprised at that, for a number of reasons.

 

[Sir peace frog]

CITY ARE INVESTING NOT DOPING

 

[SWP's back]

I'd be surprised at that, for a number of reasons.

Won't be long until the accounts are out and we see whether or not there been a 40m bump in commercial revenue.