I'm old enough to remember when the maximum wage for a player was £20 a week. Scrapped, I think in the 60's when Jimmy Hill was player's union rep'. The same guy was behind 3 points per game and all-seater stadiums.The premier had a wage cap the scum Gill scrapped it for his Club the C@nt.
I think what interests us more than any of this is the deal between Juve and Jeep to increase Jeep's sponsorship of Juve's shirts by 25 million euros a year, even though the then current deal had only run half its course. The increased deal seemed to make the club's 100 million euro purchase of Ronaldo possible without breaching FFP. Interestingly Jeep is owned by Fiat, which is owned by the Agnellis, who also run Juve. This makes the deal a related parties deal in UEFA's eyes and yet UEFA have not so much as raised a question mark about the "fair market value" of the deal. In the light of City's "difficulties" with UEFA over sponsorship, maybe you could explain this too us, to assure us that it has nothing to do with Agnelli's presence on UEFA's executive committee. Just so we know everything with UEFA is honest and above board.
Financial fairplay rules say that related party sponsorships cannot exceed 30% of revenues. Juve is therefore fully in order.
Exclusive: new formula for UEFA competition Coefficient competing:surprised they don't just go for a wages/turnover cap and seal their cartel that way.
Individual wage caps are a restraint of trade and thus illegal A squad spending cap is fine, having said that I’m not sure if one has been challenged in court as I guess it could be argued that it too amounts to a restraint of trade.Can I ask, why were Saracens punished?
I know they broke the wage cap for two seasons but is a wage cap in any industry legal!
Platini must have a wry smile on his face,all the cartel clubs losing. Money hand over fist,and,no funds in the mean time.The club he was told he has to break,and put down are sitting pretty.The cartel clubs,sad,never mind.
Platini’s a bent fucker as we all know but shortly before he got ousted he made reference to FFP and implied that some of the establishment clubs were two-faced twats. Think it was in reference to the Milan clubs specifically but it could well have referred to others as well.
Platini was clearly in a position to recognise Milan et al for what they had been, still were and still are. I doubt Platini has changed much either.