UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[cheekybids]

It gave more time for the defence as well... and I'm pretty confident our lawyers will be more expensive and better than theirs. UEFA will have multiple investigations going on at any time. We have one for our law people to concentrate on

tbf we’ve been defending about 20 cases from all organisations. Hopefully we also keeping our attack dog (lawyers) ready for the Dippers.

 

[goldcoastblue]

If you’d like to, there’s a discussion about MCFC and FFP with Colin Savage. He explained it all years ago:

Jesus, hide that behind a spoiler or something. My kids just shit themselves. Only joking colin.

 

[Cookieproof]

What would you be selling?

Contaminated meat and black market football tickets.

 

[Kenward Garg]

And they're also the mouthpiece of certain agents. Agents who might have been behind the Football Leaks hacks.

Aye. I was aware of that when I read Football is fixed. What’s incredible is how little is known about football in the shadows.

Spoke to a friend a couple of days ago in respect to the LFC hacking scandal. He’d never even heard of it...

 

[ganganvince]

Contaminated meat and black market football tickets.

You are Louis Edwards and I claim my £5

 

[northendenton]

Aye. I was aware of that when I read Football is fixed. What’s incredible is how little is known about football in the shadows.

Spoke to a friend a couple of days ago in respect to the LFC hacking scandal. He’d never even heard of it...

I have mentioned this to a few of the guys in my local and not one of them knew what I was on about

 

[waspish]

I have mentioned this to a few of the guys in my local and not one of them knew what I was on about

Yep unless sky have it on loop or the sun have a back page spread no one will know about it.

 

[Kenward Garg]

I have mentioned this to a few of the guys in my local and not one of them knew what I was on about

Ha! It’s nuts. You’d think there was a conspiracy to damage the reputation of a certain club and the inverse for another.

 

[GBrannan]

The point to be made on FFP is that it is not a neutral regulatory device that City flouted. It was a net designed to catch a prey.

Look at Man Utd at the moment. They are faced with buying their way out of trouble and back into the Champions League just when their revenues are falling, and what did the Premier League do in the Summer? They quietly cancelled their rule limiting the amount that a club can add to their wage bill when their revenues are flat or declining. The rules are designed to favour 'them'. The initial rules were drafted in consultation with Europe's leading clubs and their officials and ex-officials sit on their licensing committees. It's an open goal for any journalist but they are not going to write the story because the bigger splash for them is the cheating foreigner.

We'll do very well if we escape from this but if we do there will be no going back.

This change seemed to be more immediately needed by Arsenal, another of the original architects of wanting FFP, particularly as they thought gate receipts would be king for revenue purposes... but it turned out TV and commercial would allow others to not need to charge £1000+ for season tickets and they got boxed into a position where they couldn’t overhaul their squad because they couldn’t increase revenues enough to increase the wage bill.

Now, as you say, United need this change too with falling revenues (largely tied to TV) and a huge spend needed (both transfers and wages) to stop their fall. It’s one reason why UEFA FFP will probably change soon because those teams don’t want to take a ‘pinch’ and see other undesirables like us stay at the top table.

 

[Marvin]

This change seemed to be more immediately needed by Arsenal, another of the original architects of wanting FFP, particularly as they thought gate receipts would be king for revenue purposes... but it turned out TV and commercial would allow others to not need to charge £1000+ for season tickets and they got boxed into a position where they couldn’t overhaul their squad because they couldn’t increase revenues enough to increase the wage bill.

Now, as you say, United need this change too with falling revenues (largely tied to TV) and a huge spend needed (both transfers and wages) to stop their fall. It’s one reason why UEFA FFP will probably change soon because those teams don’t want to take a ‘pinch’ and see other undesirables like us stay at the top table.

The Premier League have collective bargaining rights and they want a successful Man Utd and Liverpool to sell their broadcasting rights across the globe hence they changed their rules to help Utd.

Real Madrid spend on. Another Brazilian signing in this window. Nothing is really stopping those clubs from spending apart from their bosses profit motive. It does seem that in the Premier League spending has declined significantly recently.