Barclay puts on the air of an Edinburgh sophisticate, but behind the posh Jock accent and the oh so relaxed ‘I’m the superior one’ delivery, much of what he trots out is contradictory bollocks.
He puts up City as an example of how FFP works in so far as we are trying to create a sustainable model, but in the next sentence, he thinks we need to be punished for being in breach - and thats where it ends, no review of the issue that for the sustainable model to work the team need to have a modicum of success in order to attract the best young talent to your state of the art facility, no suggestion that FFP protects the interests of the existing elite first and foremost, dismisses out of hand how FFP stops clubs like Spurs, Villa, Everton, Newcastle from ever competing at the very top in the future.
The man is a phoney.
