If football was serious about FFP they would have simply put a transfer cap in place ...like only £100m per window. They'd make players pay agent fees and they'd put a wage cap in place so that (for example) a club could spend £200m a year in wages including bonuses etc. But that would mean slightly leveling things up whereas current rules seem designed to keep clubs from catching up.
For me you just make the owners who want to overspend place the relevant funds in an escrow/trust account which they cannot access before any transfer is approved. Owner of say Luton wants to sign a top player on 10 million a year for 5 years? Sure, stump up the 50 mil upfront and you can make the signing. Otherwise, get ****ed. Obviously know it's not as simple as that but if clubs falling foul to dodgy owners was truly the concern then there'd be ways to do it which are completely different to what they actually did.
I've said this previously too. You could also place a tax percentage on transfers like this and distribute it through the pyramid.
having financial (and other rules ) which are not compliant with normal business law is legally allowable in sports to promote even competition . That does not mean that any rule and all it's parts will pass muster just the principle is accepted .
thats says what i said i.e. the principle that sporting rules can exceed normal competition rules but that doesn't give the authorities carte blanche so aspects of the rules can be ruled unlawful .
PL need to bin off Richard Masters. It's him at the helm for every legal challenge the PL have faced in recent years. NUFC takeover, Everton, Forrest, Leicester, Man City's APT case, Man City's 115 charges, Chelsea's takeover and spending, His **** showing in front of select committee, His **** housing with regards a regulator. The lot. Blokes not fit for purpose.
Dear God neither side "won" but if anyone came off best it was the PL as the principle of the rule was ruled to be lawful but some aspects of how it was applied were unlawful . This is from the stuff posted on here.
So the sports lawyers are all wrong. Regulation being ok and the rules breaching English competition law are two different things
I'm just loving the whole, "Oh it's not illegal to break UK law as sporting competitions are allowed to". It's not. It's why the PL **** themselves every time something comes up and try everything in their power to do it behind closed doors, it's why an independent government regulator is coming on board.
The Premier League has won apparently so the existing rules must be ok. They'll have a little vote but unfortunately a vote doesn't make the rules legal as they keep finding out. They can have rules provided they're not breaching English competition law... that isn't what they wanted though quite clearly.
De Marco has alluded to that... the big 6 fans have burrowed themselves into Richard masters arse like a tick though unfortunately.
City love to pay secret offshore wages or bury those Into a signing on fee of say 50n for the father of the player perhaps. Nice idea tho
