You may think so but the PL hold the tickets into UEFA competitions, and if they were to put sanctions in place then the retrospective withdrawal from our competition, and therefore there’s, would have consequences.We were cleared by CAS for all UEFA investigations. PL can't stop us from entering the FIFA CWC.
I've noticed the lack of outrage there too but we'll get to that. The current investigation has more parallels to the 115 than break even issues. Clubs like Everton and Forest... Even Newcastle and Villa should be on that. I've not seen many 'It's against the spirit of the rules' arguments for their many loopholes yet either. There are so many examples of double standards from all involved, from the governing bodies(UEFA and the PL), to the UK sports media and beyond.Never mind the Abramovic era, what about the Boehli era? All those signings, all those player wages, a small stadium and 2 years with no CL football? By which measure are they within FFP or PSR? Scandalous
Update to the Fordham issue: There was something at the back of my mind about this so I went back to check something.
Our wage bill increased by over 30% for no apparent reason from 2016 to 2017. I couldn't understand or explain this at the time, as we'd won nothing in Pep's first season, so it couldn't be performance related, but I'd take a guess that this was the Fordham payments going onto the club wage bill. That doesn't necessarily mean they weren't declared to UEFA though.
The increase was aboit £65m from 2016's £197m, so around a third, which suggests all the Fordham payments from 2013 onwards were accumulated for that increase, as about £12-13m per annum seemed to be going through Fordham.
That means Fordham was not an issue after the 2016 financial year.
I think the lack of outrage has a lot to do with Chelsea currently being a bit of a joke on the pitch. If they were winning shit loads of trophies like we’re currently doing then it would be different. Simply put, no United/Liverpool/Arsenal fans are that arsed about Chelsea at the moment as they’re not a barrier to them winning trophies, whereas the best team in the world - us - are. Which is all rather ironic because 20 years ago after Abramovich bought Chelsea the fans of all those clubs were very much arsed about Chelsea, accusing them of ruining football, buying trophies, and other hackneyed shite.I've noticed the lack of outrage there too but we'll get to that. The current investigation has more parallels to the 115 than break even issues. Clubs like Everton and Forest... Even Newcastle and Villa should be on that. I've not seen many 'It's against the spirit of the rules' arguments for their many loopholes yet either. There are so many examples of double standards from all involved, from the governing bodies(UEFA and the PL), to the UK sports media and beyond.
They passed PSR rules by selling a hotel they owned back to themselves. All above board, nothing to see hear! LolNever mind the Abramovic era, what about the Boehli era? All those signings, all those player wages, a small stadium and 2 years with no CL football? By which measure are they within FFP or PSR? Scandalous
They passed PSR rules by selling a hotel they owned back to themselves. All above board, nothing to see hear! Lol
im sure all this is going in the bank for the defence team when it is argued what is and isnt above board and why certain things were allowed and why they arent, the bottom line of all this is that they were trying to stop investment into the team.Seems that it's allowed to sell a hotel to yourself and your own woman's team to yourself! Maybe they'll sell those 15/20 players who are training with the u21 back to themselves for 300m!? Also if you can sell your own woman's team back to yourself what's stopping them selling there u21 team back to themselves
Ron Noades dry bummed him!I wouldn't trust Jordan as far as I could kick him. Didn't he nearly run Palace into the ground?
Ron Noades dry bummed him!