Made this point a lot.. It's horrible and can be bad for some players careers but from a business and selfish point of view, it's bloody brilliant. Someone at the top of Chelsea deserves massive cudos for the way they have planned for FFP
Exactly. They didn't need to create ridiculously over egged sponsorship deals with parent companies of their owners to try and play the game. They actually came up with a strategy that has worked to perfection. The people who did the scouting need to take a bow aswell, as if they'd have used your scouts they'd have been ****ed
so i do agree FFP is having some effect but in general i have to wonder............ its is: a) there really is not the much talent out there cos some clubs have them all bought and on loan b) clubs just don't want to sell in january as there's little value to them in doing so and not much chance of replacing. I'm sure theres a few clubs glad to shift a player even for FFP reasons but there's no offers c) there not much money out there right now to buy with Or d) players are now so freaking expensive you cannot afford to buy more than one or two a year. I personally think we have to be getting to the point where D starts to play a part for any club outside the mega rich brands. everton bought lukaku... they can't do that every window. LFC cannot either patently. I do wonder if any of those at least linked to lfc were of any interest in terms of quality.... shaqiri obviously had an agent just using our name but is there really any names? (barring of course pet favorites lads like to say) I dunno... but it seems this was a pointless window.
IF they both buy of course. I refuse to believe nobody else at all has money. I refuse to believe that city were not restricted by wage increase rules but cheslea have to sell two to get one in... don't buy that either. I think somehwere in this some clubs are up against FFP and some are thinking its just not good value.. I can't see that villa can only spend 3mil..i think they could spend more but it have to be 15-20mil to get anyone decent now and that puts them out of the window.
TonyBarretTimes Aston Villa have made an inquiry for Rickie Lambert but Liverpool showing no signs of wanting the forward to leave. 02/02/2015 15:05 Saving him for the Ings swap
The PL rules create a problem there though. The FFP rules for the PL see's finances based on salary levels. Clubs are allowed allowed to increase by a set percentage (I'm sure someone can fill us in as to what that percentage is) therefore clearly out deadwood now would but pressure on us getting player in come the summer. ideally, the club will want ins and outs happening around the same time, one-in-one-out type of approach.
The Balotelli transfer still infuriates me. If we had been willing to spend slightly more moneywe could have signed a player who at worst would have been average and still contributed a fair amount of goals - enough to have a resale value anyway, whereas Balotelli literally has no resale value
well.... obviously no bids for borini at this point. he's made himself unsellable by not going.... our loanees are so good who'd want them and that includes ilori.... so.... who else is there to be sold... we won't be selling mr lovern for sure.
Really Robert Huth being loaned to Leicester is the biggest transfer so far The media really should stop hyping up the deadline days. Today must have been so much fun for them so far, all day talking about **** all.
this is bbc live Stick with it Posted at16:44 please log in to view this image Mind you, if things do not pick up soon I don't think many of us will still be awake at 23:00 GMT to check whether deals for Juan Cuadrado (Chelsea), Aaron Lennon (Stoke) and Darren Fletcher (anyone) go through before the English window shuts.
Isn't there some loophole in the FFP wotsit regarding youth policy/youth spending or similar.? And hav'nt Man.City recently opened the biggest youth academy in the known universe?
