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I'm not defending my club against breaking the parameters that have been imposed mate - not one bit - if there are technicalities that the lawyers can exploit, fair enough, give them a go ... otherwise guilty as charged ...
What I'm having a pop at is the concept off FFP and 'sustainability' as applied to footie in the first place and the myths behind it's introduction...
Bring in spending caps on transfers and wages but we're going to exclude infrastructure costs from outlay restrictions even though they are likely to dwarf the former ... and even though they all have to be met from the same financial pot ... what utter contrived bollocks - who does that benefit?
I'm sure Spurs new ground, Liverpool's extended stands and United needing what's looking like a complete refurbishment of Old Trafford had nothing to do with permitted exclusion thinking ...
Football is a business ... unfortunately but it is - but in no other business I can think of are investors prohibited in investing or have their investment funds inhibited in terms of the area of the business they seek to improve ...
The whole thing makes the Premier League less competitive... those that think otherwise are either in cloud cuckoo land or support the Big 6 and don't want to have more competition for CL etc ...
Just my opinion of course ...
Tbh mate I've never been bothered by it. I've always been of the mindset that all you can do is improve yourself to beat your competition on the pitch. We managed that when the chavs got their windfall, both in the league and in europe.
What I like about the PL now is that there are some quality managers in the league now compared to 20 yrs ago who are willing to adopt and promote an attacking, expansive and technical approach regardless. I'll include the likes of Brighton, Villa, Brentford, Bournemouth, more recently Palace. And as a result overcoming those challenges.
I'm not defending my club against breaking the parameters that have been imposed mate - not one bit - if there are technicalities that the lawyers can exploit, fair enough, give them a go ... otherwise guilty as charged ...
What I'm having a pop at is the concept off FFP and 'sustainability' as applied to footie in the first place and the myths behind it's introduction...
Bring in spending caps on transfers and wages but we're going to exclude infrastructure costs from outlay restrictions even though they are likely to dwarf the former ... and even though they all have to be met from the same financial pot ... what utter contrived bollocks - who does that benefit?
I'm sure Spurs new ground, Liverpool's extended stands and United needing what's looking like a complete refurbishment of Old Trafford had nothing to do with permitted exclusion thinking ...
Football is a business ... unfortunately but it is - but in no other business I can think of are investors prohibited in investing or have their investment funds inhibited in terms of the area of the business they seek to improve ...
The whole thing makes the Premier League less competitive... those that think otherwise are either in cloud cuckoo land or support the Big 6 and don't want to have more competition for CL etc ...
Just my opinion of course ...
As I said to Kane I don't pretend to understand any of it, but when our new owner come in, during a fans forum that I attended with him, it appeared he was restricted in what he could do, because of the rules and that fanbase to do it, regardless his wealth, and the point I was getting at with Spurs, is we don't need a new stadium (yet), our priority is to get out of L2, but we are restrained by the rules (maybe) - yet if we want to build a big new fook off stadium that's ok (if I'm understanding all of this correctly), yet we can't grow until we get out of this league, but we are being held back and that just seems utterly ridiculous, even if I get the point of the rules. Id be more concerned if we were buidling a new stadium than what I would be getting better players in.
Fosse, you need to team up with The Esk. He is t a finance expert either but bangs on about it for Everton all the time.
Just finished mowing the lawn and getting ready for the drama with this ice cold bad boy ...
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Here we go
Knees up Mother Brown, Apples n Pears, Pete Beale and Pat Butcher
We salute you and hope you bring your East end Juju to the Etihad.
Knees up Mother Brown, Apples n Pears, Pete Beale and Pat Butcher
We salute you and hope you bring your East end Juju to the Etihad.
Missing the point fella ... financing concerns are just a smokescreen.... otherwise no rational sense in being able to exclude infrastructure costs from FFP and sustainability parameters...
Our owners also own a team in the Belgium top flight ... and really don't need financial advice from any footballing body (hardly the paragons of financial virtue now are they? - as Mr Blatter and Mr Platini proved)
Unlucky Arsenal, your hopes lasted 5 mins.
