How will FFP affect Bristol Clubs?

Just a thread to talk about while we are waiting for the nitty gritty ins/outs to start in a week or so time.

With the Fair Play rules for the coming season affecting the way football league clubs run their business it’s interesting to look at how the new rules may be massaged. There has always been an inequality between those clubs who have attracted financial sponsorship and those that have not. I believe it is the case that as from next year money from sponsors must be committed as a whole at the start of the season.
Next season clubs are very much restricted on what they can commit to there outgoings in terms of player’s contracts by the finances that can be attracted by the normal business of income from gate money etc.

This season Crystal Palace have worked a blinder over the Saha deal with Man Utd by selling him and then having him loaned back for the rest of the season. If they had accepted a different player for the loan back, no-one could complain.

Watford have imported foreign players, a ploy that is not very well protected by FFP. What concerns me about this method is that there is a danger that the large wealthy clubs could exploit the rules by employing second and third teams with players ‘nominally from foreign parts’ which dominate the whole league.

Everyone seems to be looking for ways to bend the rules.
Will financial sponsors result to the methods used in the days of ‘amateur’ rugby and subsidise club salaries by employing vastly overpaid part-time tea boys in their offices?

It will be interesting to see how the gates for the Bristol football clubs change in the coming season. At the moment it‘s difficult to assess how many will pay to go through the gates.
Bristol City’s gates will obviously reduce due to their relegation and the loss of the attraction of the visiting ‘big clubs’.
Bristol Rovers gates will probably improve as the latter half of the season has shown with the improvement in results. There is also a major attraction for Rovers with the new stadium just around the corner.

The biggest difficulty at both clubs is that we don’t know who will be playing for the teams. It isn‘t easy to attract decent players to the lower leagues as Rovers have found to their cost over the last couple of years.

 

I really don't know enough about this topic to make a detailed comment; only to
say that it might explain our haste to get STs sold, and at the same time think it
strange that City haven't even determined prices yet!

 

i think the FFP will benefit us over most other league 2 sides. not many league 2 sides have higher attendances than us so our budget is better than others. teams like fleetwood have high finances but low attendances meaning they cant spend as much as us.

is that right p49 that city hasnt released any season ticket prices yet? strange.