Watford don't need to worry about FFP. They can just aquire players from their sister clubs for nominal fees, helping to keep the books balanced.
They would because if this ruling about only having a certain number of loans comes through they may well be able to buy those players for minimal fees but players of that quality would I'm sure be on a fair wage or would expect to be if they were to go to another club!! Thats another thing, this also depends on the players not just the clubs!!
Good luck to them! They have exploited an obscure loophole in the rules and made the most of it. I guess some people are just annoyed like Holloway because he didn't think of it at the time!
What's stopping those players from having their wages being paid from two clubs though? Watford pay half and Udinese for example pick up the other half. Maybe that only works when it comes to loans though. Besides, if the actual fee to buy was next to nothing, or in fact nothing, then the wages themselves would be less of a stumbling block. Players could be released by one and immediately picked up by another sister club for nowt.
San Diego. The FFP are international rules so why would Udinese want to pay half the wages of another club, therefore limiting their own financial ability. I dont really see a problem with that they have done and most people only seem to have an issue with the 'scale' rather than the fact they are joining a vaguely related club. As I pointed out in an earlier post Ajax have Ajax Cape Town and Man Utd have Royal Antwerp and have done for twenty years to which I cant recall any shouts of outrage. In our position I am even more bemused that some are questioning Watfords logic when they had more youth team members in their match day squad than us and the same amount of loanees (I believe it was 7 each for loans) Would our fans think our loanee system was a problem if all 7 came from Barcelona rather than assorted clubs?
