http://www.givemesport.com/361786-liverpool-chelsea-doubt-uefa-over-sanctions So apparantly Officials from Chelsea and Liverpool have quizzed UEFA on what they plan to do about Monaco, PSG and Man City's spending sprees. I take it this means we are okay? Also this article claims that FFP allows a club to make losses of up to £45m a season as long as shareholders (or in our case Roman) are able to eat the costs. Didnt realise that.
How is it? If there were no rules before we didn't break them. Now there are rules and UEFA put them in place not Chelsea so it is their responsibility to enforce them and if not just scrap them. Once the rules were passed we have lived by them.
I think he means because both ourselves and Liverpool have spent big in recent seasons. And now it seems weird that both clubs would quiz Uefa about other teams doing it. I get your point that there was no FFP in place when we were spending 100m+, but if this is true, then both clubs should keep their noses out to be honest and let the shower of ****e that is UEFA enforce their own rules......or not.
We all know the rules were brought in because of us so who better than us to make sure UEFA enforce them. Platini is regretting now that some French teams have some cash, no doubt about that.
I disagree. We could have easily thrown the toys out the pram and gone to the courts, and due to the economic climate at the time, they'd have probably overturned it there and then. We've spent the last 5 years trying to get our finances in order only for UEFA to turn a blind eye to the French/Spanish. Either everybody should comply or nobody should comply, it smacks of self-interest (as per) from UEFA and possible collusion with the G-14.
Thats probably it. FFP was bought in under the guise of stopping the smaller clubs from going bust. But it was an underhanded attempt to stop repeats of what happened at Chelsea, and now its happening all over Europe, I bet Platini is face palming himself bigtime. With the current climate there are only two eventual possibilities: Football clubs cut down on spending, player wages become more reasonable and everyone lives happily ever after (unlikely) or eventually when UEFA are forced to act on FFP and start throwing bans about to the bigger clubs, we will see a breakaway European competition thats not governed by UEFA?....Maybe.....
100%. Monaco (albeit not in Europe at the moment) is particularly interesting. They get smaller gates than even QPR yet can buy 50 million pound forwards!! Prat-ini will no doubt protect the French and Spanish though.
Platini's son works for PSG. Gazprom (Zenit) are UEFA's biggest sponsors. Tell me how UEFA are going to turn round and ban them? They will just target the Malaga's and Superliga clubs of this world to try and scare the bigger clubs. UEFA are all bark and no bite.
I honestly think this is a possibility. There is a reason why all these billionaires are buying clubs up. Can you imagine the tv revenue for an 18 team Euro Leg. Sponsors etc would be falling over themselves. Each week would see Barca v AC, Chelsea v Real, Inter v PSG, Arsenal v Juve etc. Games spread over a weekend so all can be televised. 4 games a day and the 9th on a Mon/Fri night. What would the teams be? Manu/Chelsea/Arsenal/City Real/Barca/ Inter/Juve/AC PSG/Marseille/Monaco(?) Bayern/Dortmund/ Ajax Porto/Benfica
It is hypocritical, yes the laws come in after you spent all that money. But the fact you want to stop other clubs doing the exact same thing as you is really just a complete joke.
We don't want teams to stop spending and not a single person has said that. What we do ask is that UEFA enforce the rules they introduced. Got it?
Think you mean "exactly the same thing ", and all we did was copy what Utd did for years, except we did it better, now others follow us.
The same day Roman got the shares he needed to own the club a press release stated it was the goal of the new owner and board to make the club self sustainable as soon as viable. This was not driven by UEFA as they was no ruling in place forcing our new owner to do so. It may have merely been an aspiration then, but also good common and business sense. This ethic has been held by Chelsea since Abramovich took control and made public. There has been no swaying since from the plan put in place by Peter Kenyon. Sometimes reading stuff here is like watching goldfish having a debate. Hardly is a holistic view given, but small non-sustaining pieces of information are used to fool the ignorant, gullible and forgetful.
