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

[lonestay]

I thought I read somewhere that the sheikh owns a media company ?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I thought I read somewhere that the sheikh owns a media company ?

Sky News Arabia it was.

He owns Hakkassan leisure group.

 

[SWP's back]

No offence but I think you think too much. That is never going to happen

I don’t thinking that the accusation of thinking (either too much or at all) can be levelled at King KDB.

 

[King KdB of Belgium]

journolud I do know that that would not happen. Will you just think out of the box for this time. If they did this, it would be hard for UEFA to find that many sponsors all at once. They who run UEFA would be scratching their heads as to where to find that many sponsors all at once. It would be all the harder with this coronavirus running rampant through Europe. Those that might have though about do sponsorship would now be having second thoughts about doing any sponsorship at all due to the lack of money coming in and a lot of money going out.

 

[SWP's back]

Nurse he’s at the keyboard again.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I do wonder how they're going to replace FFP, or re-engineer it.

I've been seeing a couple of reporters talking about how the leagues need to introduce a salary cap.

Considering that reporters nowadays are just mouthpieces of whichever organisation gives them favours..... This could be them setting the narrative for wage caps?

 

[TheThirdDeano]

I do wonder how they're going to replace FFP, or re-engineer it.

I've been seeing a couple of reporters talking about how the leagues need to introduce a salary cap.

Considering that reporters nowadays are just mouthpieces of whichever organisation gives them favours..... This could be them setting the narrative for wage caps?

But there was a wage cap, but they god rid of it before United renewed donut thief’s contract, they then bumped him Up to one of the top earners of the PL

 

[Norbiton]

Rui Pinto's lawyer is apparently confident his client will be freed soon following negotiations with the Portuguese authorities involving further revelations about the Luanda scandal and corruption in football... Hopefully the latter will worry others rather than City

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

But there was a wage cap, but they god rid of it before United renewed donut thief’s contract, they then bumped him Up to one of the top earners of the PL

Aren't most changes to the regulatory arrangements made in order to accommodate the excesses of the rags ?

Protectionism and corruption of the highest order .

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

A salary cap existed in English football between 1901 and 1961. The immediate cause of its abolition was the threat of a strike by the PFA, led by Jimmy Hill. There were, of course, other compelling reasons for its abolition. It had always been very difficult to enforce. Clubs such as Burnley and Wolves had always demanded its rigorous enforcement because it made it easier for them to compete for players with the much richer big city clubs, but clubs had always found ways of providing players with "ghost" jobs which paid a salary but required no work. Perhaps more important was competition from European leagues, notably Italy. John Charles had left Leeds for Juventus in 1957 for a British record fee, but his signing on fee was many hundreds of times greater than the £10 signing on fee allowed in English football and his weekly wage was similarly much greater. In 1961 a number of the finest players in England followed Charles to Italy, in the same summer that a number of English clubs announced their intention to pay key players far more than the maximum wage had allowed. Since 1961 football has never tried to reimpose wage control and in the UK attempts at wage control were so unsuccessful that they provoked social conflict on a massive scale and played a large part in toppling two governments. UEFA's attempts at controlling wages as part of FFP have been deferential, to say the least, to the needs of a cartel of clubs. There is no doubt that if they tried to introduce a Europe wide cap it would applied as selectively as the rest of FFP and really would end in disaster in the courts. If the PL tried it we'd see a mass exodus of players back to Europe, a catastrophic decline in TV revenues, probably a players' strike and trouble from the 'istree clubs (and others). At a time when FFP seems unlikely to survive...