Our losses are smaller than Champions League holders Inter

[bluenova]

The last available accounts are for the year ending June 30, 2009, and these report an enormous loss of €154 million (£132 million). Just a blip? Not a bit of it; the previous year’s loss was very nearly as bad at €148 million and the 2007 loss was even worse at €208 million.

That gives a cumulative loss of €509 million in just three years...over half a billion!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/442218-the-price-of-inters-success

Makes you think.

 

[Braggster]

Good find. We're only doing what inter, AC, Chelsea and co have done for years, yet they want to stop us. It's gross hypocrisy and self interest masquerading as prudent fair play. Sickening.

 

[Balti]

Inter are ruining football

 

[Chippy_boy]

Good find. We're only doing what inter, AC, Chelsea and co have done for years, yet they want to stop us. It's gross hypocrisy and self interest masquerading as prudent fair play. Sickening.

100% Correct.

As I stated on another thread, these rules have NOTHING to do with fair play. Forcing clubs to balance income and expenditure clearly favours the biggest clubs with the biggest stadiums, the largest worldwide fan base and the biggest income streams. They have the most money and therefore can spend the most on players transfers and wages.

This means United, Real, AC etc all get to remain top dogs and Manchester City (and future Citys) are prevented from joining the top table. What a coincidence.

This is what it was always about, and the fact that people let him get away with it is just mind boggling. Well perhaps not, if you think they try to justify it all by hiding behind the buy-in from guess what - Europe's biggest and most influential clubs.

The biggest problem facing European football is the mountain of debt under which the big clubs are operating and the danger that at any moment any one of them could do a Portsmouth. There's nothing in the fair play rules about this at all.

What a complete sham.

 

[bluenova]

100% Correct.

As I stated on another thread, these rules have NOTHING to do with fair play. Forcing clubs to balance income and expenditure clearly favours the biggest clubs with the biggest stadiums, the largest worldwide fan base and the biggest income streams. They have the most money and therefore can spend the most on players transfers and wages.

This means United, Real, AC etc all get to remain top dogs and Manchester City (and future Citys) are prevented from joining the top table. What a coincidence.

Surely the post about Inter shows that we're not the only ones likely to have problems. You can't get much more establishment than the current Champions League winners, and yet the rules will affect them in the same way as us - maybe even worse because our revenue is likely to increase faster than Inter's.

I honestly don't think UEFA care that it's City, Inter, Chelsea etc that will have problems, rather than Real, or Barca.