SebastianBlue
President, International Julian Alvarez Fan Club
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In other words, you better not revitalise a large part of a major city in England, build a state-of-the-art training and academy complex (along with non-football sport facilities), invest in developing world class youth talent (many of them english), heavily back your women’s team and support the growth of women’s football in general, give away millions directly to the community, and have an immensely successful football team, as well. That’s beyond the pale.There is no difference afaik. It's what you do with the money that's important for FFP.
The only acceptable financing method is either being an arms dealer oligarch that directly injects cash in to your club and is then sanctioned and forced to sell when your best mate decides to start World War 3. Or be a dodgy American business family or consortium that leverages the club to the hilt and then works to extract maximum value from it before selling it off for a profit, all the while doing little in the community you actually serve (apart from extracting as much capital from it as possible, too).
We should have known better.