The challenge is pretty much as I stated as did many, that FFP is there to keep the top clubs top, same in the PL as it is in Europe. Football is a business and UEFA laws really do not take presidence over actual laws. Certain PL clubs amassing timely new sponsorship deals.. no coincidence. lets screw the small teams and ensure no rich guy comes into invest, or rather, comes in to challenge the dominance of certain clubs. _________________________________________________________________________ Lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont claims that FFP breaches European competition law. "A club owner is prohibited from overspending even if such overspending aims at growing the club," said Dupont. In December 1995, Belgian midfielder Jean-Marc Bosman, 31, successfully challenged football's transfer rules at the European Court, on the basis of restraint of trade. The Bosman ruling allowed players over 24 to move clubs without a transfer fee at the end of their contracts, and also ended national league limits on foreign players from other European Union countries. Dupont, who was part of the legal team that won that ruling and also led the case that forced Uefa and world governing body Fifa to compensate clubs for players injured on international duty, is now representing Belgian players' agent Daniel Striani. The Belgian lawyer says the FFP ruling will restrict the incomes of both players and agents, reduce transfer activity and ensure that Europe's larger clubs remain dominant. He added that even if the ban on overspending was ruled legal, he would have further grounds to appeal because Uefa, football's European governing body, could achieve its aims by a less restrictive measure such as forcing clubs to makes guarantees on any spending beyond projected income. The European Commission confirmed it had received a complaint but would make no further comment on the case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22426733
I think personally that today is very unhealthy. the people who need to be looked after by uefa and the european courts are the fee paying public not the ****s running the big clubs. Lets just lay down some examples. Portsmouth Leeds Blackburn. West ham Brimingham Man city RANGERS Valencia. LIVERPOOL CHELSEA (bates) In each case the people given control of these clubs did precisely what the ruling states is fine. go swan in to a club trash it then swan off again. The fans in most cases (Chelsea being the only one that got a sugar daddy rescue) suffer. Look at the state of portsmouth. the FA let 4 separate scumbags come in and RUIN that club, asset grab cheat, lie stealing scum. Look at G&H loading us with debt upon debt.... look at valencia with 500mil debt and virtually closed. Look at rangers i ndivision 3 as a "new" club.... look at the state of jack walkers legacy. IF FFP states you spend what you make and nothing more then thats a starting point. the wages at city are sinful frankly. totally obscene, digusting and unmerited by the majority. FFP s not great as the venky's can still ruin blackburn. gold and sullivan can own a club still. there is NOTHING NOTHING to stop tom hicks trying to buy another football club.
