Martin Samuel The Mail - Great read and FFP reality bite

moomba said:
The competition should be about the prestige, not the cash.
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Should be, but sadly never will be. Could you seriously see horrible greedy bastards like Barcelona and Real Madrid agreeing to something so ghastly and immoral?!!

There are so many ways that the money generated by the game could be used to make it even better, but no one's even the slightest bit interested, unfortunately.
 
This part is so true

This is the last group of fans who can be lifted from mediocrity by the fairytale: the one where a very rich man flies in bearing gifts and transports a club to the heavens. And surveying the sheer pleasure that it brought one half of Manchester on Monday, we have to ask: how did football allow this to happen?
How did the sport permit a single man's idea of what is right and preferable to erase one of the most potent forces for good in the game? Money from outside, coming in, to make dreams come true. What on earth was wrong with that?

Remember that feeling we had on Monday, that we might have come the end of the season, Platini has stopped that for other people. Monday night was the 4th or 5th time since Sheik Mansour rescued us that has given us unadulterated pure happiness. That has been stolen from other people by the keep the big big aristocrats at the top
 
Article comments completely missing the bloody point as per usual. "But United and Arsenal have done it with money they EARNED". Yeah dipshit, and they'll now forever be earning more money than you, so everyone else is completely fucked. Great system that. Seeing which club out of 4 wins the league every year. Only interesting thing now is going to be who's relegated or can go on a giant killing lucky cup run.
 
BoyBlue_1985 said:
This part is so true

This is the last group of fans who can be lifted from mediocrity by the fairytale: the one where a very rich man flies in bearing gifts and transports a club to the heavens. And surveying the sheer pleasure that it brought one half of Manchester on Monday, we have to ask: how did football allow this to happen?
How did the sport permit a single man's idea of what is right and preferable to erase one of the most potent forces for good in the game? Money from outside, coming in, to make dreams come true. What on earth was wrong with that?

Remember that feeling we had on Monday, that we might have come the end of the season, Platini has stopped that for other people. Monday night was the 4th or 5th time since Sheik Mansour rescued us that has given us unadulterated pure happiness. That has been stolen from other people by the keep the big big aristocrats at the top
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Remember, our owners as well as all the others have signed up to abide by this. Reason being they could see that this would be good for City in the long run.

However, the FFPR only apply to European competitions. So is there anything to stop a new owner taking a long term plan of spending heavily to win domestic honours, then consolidating for a year or 2 to abide by FFPR and be allowed in to Europe after that. It would be harder to get players to come on the promise of Europe in the future, but as our owners are proving, nothing's impossible!
 
I think that FFP is a pathetic compromise.

Platini wants to look like he is tackling the supposed issue of football being 'out of control', but he doesn't want to upset the top teams either. So, he comes up with FFP which ruins football for the majority.

If you seriously think that football is 'out of control', with too high wages, and owners throwing cash at it etc... then go and set a wage cap, transfer limits, quotas and so on. Make football even, so that everybody is on a pretty much level footing - everything is sustainable and so on.

Or (the better option), just leave football to the free market.

Even though I wouldn't be a fan of wage caps and so on, i'd at least respect it more than FFP. It's nothing more than a pathetic compromise, which tries to please everybody, but ultimately destroys 'hope' from football.
 
Samuel consistently delivers quality journalism on sport and has probably been the only journalist in the national press not to slag off City since day 1 of the takeover.

If I have a criticism its that his taste in shirts on the Sunday Supplement leaves a lot to be desired (and he writes for the Mail).
 
A tremendously evocative piece of writing and bang on the money. Champions League is the ladder and FFP pulls it up behind the 'elite'.

There is always the possibility of a team putting in an exceptional season, eg Newcastle this time, but to stay there takes investment otherwise the odds of it being a one off greatly shorten. If Newcastle decided to invest to stay where they are, then UEFA ensures they are not afforded the opportunity of progress given the strictures of FFP.

Europe more or less operates as a free market economy, so how can a quango can impose dictats on anyone's business model is beyond me.

I'll say it again, this needs challenging in the courts as soon as possible. I feel the outcome of such a challenge would be of Bosman proportions and (hopefully) lead to Napoleon's demise (and hopefully the demise of Goerring, Spear and Goebbels over at Bayern).
 
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