I‘m all for ffp being completely fucked off and the only limiting criteria being clubs cannot go into debt. So if an owner and income mean a club can spend £500m in one transfer window without taking it into debt, that’s fine. If a richer owner than ours comes along and they spend £800m in one window then fair enough.
But if a club has £400m of debt loaded onto it, or a huge stadium to pay for, then tough shit, they’ll have to sign free transfers from league 1.
It should be exactly as if you have £1m in the bank, you can go out and buy a new Range Rover, no worries. But if you have about £200 and thousands of pounds in credit card debts and a mortgage, you can’t. Why doesn’t football operate that way?
Why is it that the Glazers can pile £400m debt on rags but they’re allowed to buy Sancho and pay Ronaldo millions a month? But if we tried to sign Haaland, Rice and Mbappe in summer there would be an outcry about us ruining football. I genuinely don’t understand, unless it’s purely down to jealousy, tribalism and racism.