StillBluessinceHydeRoad
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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!
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!