PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

The era of the proposed “% of revenues”salary caps, would only help magnify the gulf between haves and have nots…much as they’ve done with “UEFA COEFFICIENTS,” which have NOTHING to do with the sporting competition undertaken over the last 12 months.

Whatever “metrics” are created, they will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS being geared towards giving the largest clubs in Europe an advantage and penalizing the smaller clubs, while ensuring no-one ELSE with an owner willing to invest large sums at a club is allowed to succeed AGAIN!

They weren’t able to close the door quickly enough to keep out City & PSG, but they sure as hell don’t want the likes of Newcastle crashing their party and diluting their UEFA windfalls!

If UEFA were serious in the slightest, there would be a much smaller sliding scale of revenues/prize money associated with Champions League progress, with PRESTIGE being the main driver, and a much greater emphasis on supporting the UEFA member associations such that the money had to be used in grass roots football, not by the clubs in the top division. FIFA should do exactly the same across Confederations.

DEBT should be eradicated from clubs in the top divisions, not investment, such that a club should NEVER be allowed to cross a debt threshold simply because their revenues can cover the interest payments.

Rather, the RETIREMENT OF DEBT, using X% of revenues every year until completely retired, should be a focus.

In addition, ownership should NEVER be allowed to codify club “investment” as a loan or debt. That would greatly limit reckless spending and create a system where investment is ACTUAL investment.

If the above was enacted, transfer fees could be based on time served, rather than seen as a cash cow required for survival by some clubs. For instance, if a player was at a club as a junior (say from age 6 to 18), a club would receive €XXX for that development cost. From there, a player would be valued by his First Team Squad inclusion and then performances in excess of, say, 15 minutes.

For example, if a player had been developed from age 6-18, that means a base €5M fee. From there, First Team Squad inclusion (on official squad rosters that could be expanded from 25 to allow for 5? EDS types) could add another €5M per season that the player plays in 7 games for a minimum of 15 mins per game average. So, one 90 minute first team appearance almost satisfied that threshold, but a few 5-10 minute games would fulfill it. That gets more young players more playing on the actual field, because it helps increase their value.

For top players, a sliding scale of €€€€ based on appearances to age 30 would commence, with a decrement then beginning based on age.

None of this suggests City couldn’t offload a player for LESS, only that the development club is able to constantly raise his potential value while putting a League-wide cap on the money sloshing around the big clubs.

Additionally, each transfer fee would require a XX% tariff paid into a PFA player welfare fund, which would be developed to help safeguard players financial futures through insurance and codified annuity payments once their playing days were over and they rescind their Association authorization papers.

In Europe, the game makes it VERY, VERY DIFFICULT to get the education necessary to fulfill one’s post-career potential, especially amongst the players who turn Pro at 16, forgo higher education, and end up outside the game with little to no education or non-football life skills shortly after normal school age. In this regard, I’m proud of what City are doing, because I know from personal experience this is a very, very difficult “Sliding Doors” moment in a young player’s life.

It pains me that in England we have gazillionaires at the top clubs making more from their commercial activities than they will ever need, let alone their €500,000 - $1M+ per month wages, yet we have a PFA that has done very little to protect the most vulnerable, and often venerable, in the game.

People must find it crazy to realize a top PL player makes more in a year than their entire favorite team made in a career when their “hero” from yesteryear played.

And, I mean that LITERALLY!

We marvel at an industry built on the shoulders of those heroes, yet many of them scrape for a living in their golden years outside the glare of the floodlights. That’s a crying shame.

A player who played for England in the 1966 World Cup Final should never have had to worry about his future, let alone have to sell his England caps or his World Cup Winner medal just to try to live. NEVER.

Today, thank goodness, that should never happen, but for a wide swath of players just below that level, it is their reality.

We can do better and if the FA, UEFA and FIFA REALLY had the game, and the players that sustain it, in the forefront of their minds, it would BE better.

As for the PFA, their financial mismanagement and lack of forethought is a disgrace.
 
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ChicagoBlue said:
The era of the proposed “% of revenues”salary caps, would only help magnify the gulf between haves and have nots…much as they’ve done with “UEFA COEFFICIENTS,” which have NOTHING to do with the sporting competition undertaken over the last 12 months.

Whatever “metrics” are created, they will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS being geared towards giving the largest clubs in Europe an advantage and penalizing the smaller clubs, while ensuring no-one ELSE with an owner willing to invest large sums at a club is allowed to succeed AGAIN!

They weren’t able to close the door quickly enough to keep out City & PSG, but they sure as hell don’t want the likes of Newcastle crashing their party and diluting their UEFA windfalls!

If UEFA were serious in the slightest, there would be a much smaller sliding scale of revenues/prize money associated with Champions League progress, with PRESTIGE being the main driver, and a much greater emphasis on supporting the UEFA member associations such that the money had to be used in grass roots football, not by the clubs in the top division. FIFA should do exactly the same across Confederations.

DEBT should be eradicated from clubs in the top divisions, not investment, such that a club should NEVER be allowed to cross a debt threshold simply because their revenues can cover the interest payments.

Rather, the RETIREMENT OF DEBT, using X% of revenues every year until completely retired, should be a focus.

In addition, ownership should NEVER be allowed to codify club “investment” as a loan or debt. That would greatly limit reckless spending and create a system where investment is ACTUAL investment.

If the above was enacted, transfer fees could be based on time served, rather than seen as a cash cow required for survival by some clubs. For instance, if a player was at a club as a junior (say from age 6 to 18), a club would receive €XXX for that development cost. From there, a player would be valued by his First Team Squad inclusion and then performances in excess of, say, 15 minutes.

For example, if a player had been developed from age 6-18, that means a base €5M fee. From there, First Team Squad inclusion (on official squad rosters that could be expanded from 25 to allow for 5? EDS types) could add another €5M per season that the player plays in 7 games for a minimum of 15 mins per game average. So, one 90 minute first team appearance almost satisfied that threshold, but a few 5-10 minute games would fulfill it. That gets more young players more playing on the actual field, because it helps increase their value.

For top players, a sliding scale of €€€€ based on appearances to age 30 would commence, with a decrement then beginning based on age.

None of this suggests City couldn’t offload a player for LESS, only that the development club is able to constantly raise his potential value while putting a League-wide cap on the money sloshing around the big clubs.

Additionally, each transfer fee would require a XX% tariff paid into a PFA player welfare fund, which would be developed to help safeguard players financial futures through insurance and codified annuity payments once their playing days were over and they rescind their Association authorization papers.

In Europe, the game makes it VERY, VERY DIFFICULT to get the education necessary to fulfill one’s post-career potential, especially amongst the players who turn Pro at 16, forgo higher education, and end up outside the game with little to no education or non-football life skills shortly after normal school age. In this regard, I’m proud of what City are doing, because I know from personal experience this is a very, very difficult “Sliding Doors” moment in a young player’s life.

It pains me that in England we have gazillionaires at the top clubs making more from their commercial activities than they will ever need, let alone their €500,000 - $1M+ per month wages, yet we have a PFA that has done very little to protect the most vulnerable, and often venerable, in the game.

People must find it crazy to realize a top PL player makes more in a year than their entire favorite team made in a career when their “hero” from yesteryear played.

And, I mean that LITERALLY!

We marvel at an industry built on the shoulders of those heroes, yet many of them scrape for a living in their golden years outside the glare of the floodlights. That’s a crying shame.

A player who played for England in the 1966 World Cup Final should never have had to worry about his future, let alone have to sell his England caps or his World Cup Winner medal just to try to live. NEVER.

Today, thank goodness, that should never happen, but for a wide swath of players just below that level, it is their reality.

We can do better and if the FA, UEFA and FIFA REALLY had the game, and the players that sustain it, in the forefront of their minds, it would BE better.

As for the PFA, their financial mismanagement and lack of forethought is a disgrace.
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Top post! The problem is as always the top clubs run football they dictate what will be! We got lucky to squash the Super league because that would of been the end of football as we new!
 
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