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Just to re-iterate, FFP is a great idea but:
It is all just smoke and mirrors with clever lawyers and accountants finding loopholes and disguising ways to get round FFP. I am sure all the clubs with the biggest resources, including mine, do this to a greater or lesser extent. I am sure it will be just the same if a salary cap were introduced, or there were limits on transfer budgets. |
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FFP is about making nothing fair.
if we want fair how about we go back to sharing gate receipts? share all champions league money equally between prem clubs? nah didn't think so.....none of the top clubs would vote for that City included |
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FFP is about making it fair. It's about spending within your means. Some clubs have more money because they've been well run and successful for decades and have large support and revenues, other clubs wheel and deal in the transfer market and bridge the gap fairly. Nothing whatsoever unfair about that.
Being backed by a petrostate distorts the market for all the clubs who do things fairly. City are not a well run club at all. Never have been really. Still don't operate within their means. Some clubs are just bigger than you, it's not an unfair advantage, it's taken them decades of being more successful and better than you to get there. The notion of other fans apologising to City shows how deluded their fans are. It's as if they think the CAS found them innocent when a court isn't even asked to do that. Some of the content in those emails was nothing short of scumbag behaviour. And City actually came out and confirmed they were legit by saying they were taken out of context. That was smart. I just hope they tighten up the FFP rules even more now and have bans for non-compliance with the process. UEFA seem incompetent but I wouldn't imagine the real big clubs are going to take it lying down. Mightn't end up as the sweet victory that some City fans think it is. |
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Barcelona and Real have both received illegal state subsidies in the past, also benefitted was from tax breaks, for some reasons, think to do with 'not for profit status'? most Spanish clubs had to offload players to offset debt yet the big 2 were allowed hundreds of millions of euro's worth of debt and still allowed to keep buying.
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great post Lurka totally agree
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Yes it was fair. Any owner could have done it at any club. There were no rules against it.
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