Newcastle Thread - 2023/24

FFP certainly does not help Newcastle but I don't think it places an insuperable barrier in their way. It is not true to say that FFP forbids owner investment. It places severe limits on what an owner can invest in player transfer fees and wages but it allows unlimited investment in infrastructure, youth development and women's football. Even the cartel realised that a blanket ban on investment was something they could not get away with. Investment in these areas is not something most clubs can consider, at least not on a scale to worry the cartel, but City can, as present plans show clearly. And I think Newcastle can. This is the way to increase revenue from "permissible streams." and this is the essential way to progress. Newcastle are, at present, the one club which can follow City's pathway to stuffing the cartel.

Newcastle United is a genuinely regional power in football. There isn't really too many clubs to compete with Newcastle over a large area and the support, both actual and potential is large. Investment in youth development would pay off handsomely, both in transfer feed and talent for the team. Just as it is doing at City. City are also showing the way with entertainment facilities, hotels, cafes, bars and restaurants etc, etc, etc. This is a gradual process and it may take the geordies longer than it took City but their owners are certainly not short of the capital required and the club's revenue will increase enormously. I can see a time when City and Newcastle operate on a financial plane far higher than every other club. More than a few scousers would have apoplectic at the origin of the funds and would rant on about sportswashing - but I think they would get little joy out of the independent regulator. As we know, Old Trafford is falling down. The theatres of dreams are elsewhere!
 
got no problem with the geordies. the few i've known personally in my life have all been a good laugh.

don't really blame newcastle for voting for FFP as they had Mike Ashley in charge back then. and he would have loved if no-one could spend anything. they're a different beast now. likely an ally once we're on an even keel.
 
Wouldn't say that their version of finance is right, their 'franchise' model ensures the owners make alot of money....or maybe I got it wrong, and the Glaziers, who run their club that way, are really popular?
Franchise sport is shit, but capping salaries, spend etc. - can only make a sport like football fairer tbh... F1 (SH*t SPORT) They keep fiddling about trying to make it fairer but richest always has the best cars. The driver makes little difference tbf. Best driver in avarage car = average placing. Might as well have each team just show their bank balance at start of the season - announce a winner after comparing for 10 minutes...job done.
 
But then pgmol would do their very best to ensure the less 'glamorous' clubs weren't in the top echelons for long. And no way would Sly or any of the others take a prolonged interest in clubs like, Fulham, Sheff Utd etc.
The rags and the dippers will always be looked after to ensure the money keeps coming in, ourselves, Arsenal and the Chavs are tolerated because of the wealth and the interest we attract: the smaller clubs are a minor irritant as far as the sport goes.
smaller clubs you said i think i've outed masters ;)
 
Franchise sport is shit, but capping salaries, spend etc. - can only make a sport like football fairer tbh... F1 (SH*t SPORT) They keep fiddling about trying to make it fairer but richest always has the best cars. The driver makes little difference tbf. Best driver in avarage car = average placing. Might as well have each team just show their bank balance at start of the season - announce a winner after comparing for 10 minutes...job done.
Salary caps do make things fairer in the US, but I’m sure the main reason they were brought in was so that the owners made more profit. If we had a salary cap in football, there should also be a cap on owner profits and on ticket prices and merchandise. It would also have to be a worldwide salary cap, which isn’t something American sports really have to consider.
 

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