UEFA to propose FFP replacement plan

[manclad]

The first two are pointless. They'd only result in the same amount of agents and sign-on fees being paid in higher salaries to the player

You are Alexander Armstrong and I claim my £10 reward!!!

 

[mcfcphil]

I can’t imagine this will be very difficult to circumvent through big signing on fees paid in stages throughout the contract etc etc

 

[mrbelfry]

You can pay more if you pay the luxury tax so in theory it doesn't prevent a sugar daddy from investing if they have free reign to spend.

What it may encourage is short term contracts. Barca and the la liga scenario show what can happen when revenue suddenly changes. Lose a champions league place and your wage allocation reduces quite a bit and you have to offload your big earners. Oh only if you qualify for europe though? So ignore that

Premier League teams keep a massive advantage due to our tv deal

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I've said it beofre and I'll say it again. Any system of financial regulation that just looks at the P&L account and doesn't look at a club's holistic financial situation (whih La Liga do appear to do) is completely useless in any meaningful sense.

 

[KS55]

Anything that relies on a percentage of turnover cements United's position as the club that can spend the most.

liverpool and City are in the same ballpark in terms of turnover. But a club like Newcastle, if taken over will be disadvantaged.

 

[dubblue]

liverpool and City are in the same ballpark in terms of turnover. But a club like Newcastle, if taken over will be disadvantaged.

Will they not just pay the “luxury” tax?Particularly if the Saudi’s buy them.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

UEFA should keep their dirty hands out of the financial affairs of football clubs. They should be there solely for footballing reasons. Not to impose rules that affect how a business is run. Corrupt, political cunts.

 

[Blue Mist]

Is there any limit on the number of Swiss watches you can smuggle ?
Or brown envelopes filled with cash you can accept ?

If so Bayern are fucked.

 

[domalino]

I've said it beofre and I'll say it again. Any system of financial regulation that just looks at the P&L account and doesn't look at a club's holistic financial situation (whih La Liga do appear to do) is completely useless in any meaningful sense.

The problem UEFA has is that football has never been fair financially and never will be, but because in their hubris they called their attempts to stop new investment in the sport "fair play" they have convinced a generation of fans that football should be fair.

With that name they made a promise they could never and will never be able to keep.

The only way you can have a fair sport is if it exists in a bubble like the American sports - revenue sharing, wage caps, minimum salaries, standardised max contracts.

But even that's not fair because if you play for a team in California you'll pay 15% more income tax then if you're in Texas, so they can pay their players less!


Sport isn't fair, it never has been and people need to accept that instead of pretending that this unfairness is new or contrary to the ideas of the sport.

 

[dickie davies]

The problem UEFA has is that football has never been fair financially and never will be, but because in their hubris they called their attempts to stop new investment in the sport "fair play" they have convinced a generation of fans that football should be fair.

With that name they made a promise they could never and will never be able to keep.

They've also convinced a generation that the European Cup is a "Champions" league, when it is neither a league or solely competed in by champions