PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Beaker]

Makes me laugh the amount of fans that want these rules.
The only thing it will achieve is it will make the PL weaker and the owners richer.
Fans won’t see any benefit.

I said it tongue in cheek, but it would be interesting to see what excuse some of the apologists for the club would come up with if these regulations were to come in and then we see another increase.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Spurs at a guess

I read that Arsenal and Chelsea were 2 of the main players in this? Interestingly the 2 clubs that have spent the most in the last 2 years. Assumed Chelsea abstained to make sure it didn’t look too obvious

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

I don't want to see any one protesting when City leave for a Super League.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Doesnt sound like a sound business plan to me.

Depends what the rules on break-even and debt are. If there aren't any ..... watch out :)

 

[BringBackSwales]

How does us not spending what we can afford help other clubs spending what they can’t afford?

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Are the PSR rules in place going to stay? Or say can a club spend £500m even if their turnover is say £300m???

 

[chaddblue]

And let's not forget, the current situation isn't normal.

In the history of English football, there has never been the kind of inequality we see today.

While City are one of the only clubs affected, we shouldn't be complaining (and I realise you're not), that we're ONLY allowed to spend 5 times as much as other clubs in the same division.

I may have misunderstood you, but that doesn't mean the bottom club could only spend £100m and we could spend £500m. It means everybody is limited to £500m

Our annual wage bill is about £200m and we have recently spent £50m on agents fees per season, so that leaves us £250m to spend on players

That's seems more than enough seeing as Pep has spent on average about £150m per season since he's been at the club, but that doesn't even account for transfers out. Seems more than enough to keep us going as we are

 

[nmc]

The concept of a spending cap is consistent with US owners who couldn’t give a fuck about football - it’s a sure fire way to make money. Huge incomes that they can’t spend = PROFIT!

 

[Dribble]

It's an agreement in principle not an agreement a long way to go before that happens,it will get thrashed out and changed and be meaningless when it comes into force

"IF".

I've just read an overview, but the one thing no one seems to know is if the five times figure includes transfers, wages & agents fees.

This would give City £530m headroom based on last season, BUT more disturbingly, if the calculation included all the above & our wage bill is North of £400m, we'd be limited to £130m net spend. However, is this figure reduced when sales are taken into account?

Also, I've seen our wage bill estimates ranging between £200m - £400m, which will have a huge bearing on the above.

All these bullshit FFP/PSR rule changes just to stop City. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water...

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Jeez. So how did Irish players like Brady & others develop if other sports were banned?

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