FFP was brought in to stop clubs spending irresponsibly and “doing a Leeds”.
If owners have the money and want to pump it into their club to win, what’s problem of they are loaded enough to cover the losses?
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If owners have the money and want to pump it into their club to win, what’s problem of they are loaded enough to cover the losses?
Because it's unfair for the vast majority of football teams and kills sporting integrity?
What's the point of having a sport where teams play fair on the pitch but play unfair off it?
Yeah I think it will have gone down too. I was being facetious.
It's a fair analysis much the same... The thing that speaks to most though is that fact that it's not really game changing money.
The commercial revenue of PSG is greater than the other 19 teams in Ligue 1. It’s the only L1 side in the most populous city in France so an advantage would be expected but, with the doping, PSG will dominate domestic competition to the point that it’s unlikely that they’ll lose a domestic tournament—unless managed by Poch. Does anyone really want to watch a league that the same team wins 12 times in a row usually by a comfortable margin? And, if they’re beaten, then they just buy the best players of the team that beat them?
The revenue inequality, driven by (but not entirely down to) nation states and oligarchs, just pushes us further and further towards a closed shop super league.
If the two options are domestic leagues that serve no purpose because they’re always won by the same team or a closed shop super league then I’m going to give up on top tier football.
1. They don’t play fair on the pitch. They constantly look to cheat officials and bend the rules. Then there is the doping question which is very much an open question.
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Current FFP regulations weren’t brought in to stop this. And tbh we had the sky 4 dominance through financial advantages for years before City came along.
I’m supportive of pushing to make winning more equal opportunity but there is just as much chance these regulations all but guarantee the same clubs winning all the time. Even more so than before.
Can’t see this season’s relegation being solved outside of litigation.
if Leicester are also in breach of financial regulations then I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s additional issues with the promotion spots also.
This can’t be an arbitrary process as in the EPL can deduct 10 plus/minus 4 or 6 plus/minus 2 for good behavior when a single point can be the difference between EPL and EFL football.
Because it’s unsustainable. Everton and Forest are close to going out of business on paper - at some point their mad owners will stop spending and they will go pop
This is fundamentally all this part (ie the control of income and transfer spend) of FFP was ever about.
Yeah it's bollocks. People cheering on FFP for now but its just there to lock in the big clubs and stop upstarts.
Unsustainable depends on the owner, surely?
Government fucks up everything it tries to regulate.
Football: Yeah I'll have me some of that regulation thanks
Abramovic was sustainable until he was unsustainable - nothing lasts for ever
They signed older players on much shorter contracts
Because those situations can change rapidly, like Usmanov at Everton.
Something could easily happen in the wider world that meant the middle eastern owners all disappeared quickly as well.
I thought fifa prohibited government interference in a country’s football affairs?
Surely they won’t be happy at this, although I’ve no idea if similar is set up in other countries. Anyway, I wouldn’t want any government near controlling anything in football. It won’t do it well.
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Political interference Vs government interference,it is different.
If Germany can insist on 50+1 pretty sure government can be involved
6-d chess.
In 50 years all will be destroyed but Tottenham and we will win everything by default.