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vimhawk said:
Chelsea just been fined for breaching Premier League rules over financial reporting, third party investment and youth development.

Wait for it.

£12.5m.

!

But there's more. There a transfer ban too!

A suspended transfer ban.

I am just wondering, you know, a bit, about whether they gained a bit more than they have lost here. Frankly, with that level of punishment you may as well commit the crime and take the fine. It's worth it.
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It comes back to my theory about Levy’s ultimate downfall. Yes he was unable to adapt to the financial reality of European football especially re. the transfer market - there is so much money in the PL now that all clubs can afford to recruit well and compete for good players, and it’s much harder to offload players to European clubs because hardly any of them have any money.

But he also bet the house on establishing a huge financial gap and FFP/PSR and other regulations affecting other clubs and actually being enforced. Even in the above reality that would still place an advantage in his hands, and in those of Spurs. Instead clubs colluded to exploit loopholes around academy player trading and blatantly broke other rules - look at Chelsea and City (with their outstanding charges). Without the players those flows of money enabled those two clubs to have it’s not unreasonable to suggest that Spurs would have an additional 2x League Cups and a PL title in the last decade or so let alone the downstream effects from league positioning, potential European qualification, maybe Kane is still here and we have a true dynasty.

Ironically for someone as financially savvy as Levy he forgot that football is a money game and money talks and gets what it wants in this world, rules be damned.
 
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The Huddlefro said:
It comes back to my theory about Levy’s ultimate downfall. Yes he was unable to adapt to the financial reality of European football especially re. the transfer market - there is so much money in the PL now that all clubs can afford to recruit well and compete for good players, and it’s much harder to offload players to European clubs because hardly any of them have any money.

But he also bet the house on establishing a huge financial gap and FFP/PSR and other regulations affecting other clubs and actually being enforced. Even in the above reality that would still place an advantage in his hands, and in those of Spurs. Instead clubs colluded to exploit loopholes around academy player trading and blatantly broke other rules - look at Chelsea and City (with their outstanding charges). Without the players those flows of money enabled those two clubs to have it’s not unreasonable to suggest that Spurs would have an additional 2x League Cups and a PL title in the last decade or so let alone the downstream effects from league positioning, potential European qualification, maybe Kane is still here and we have a true dynasty.

Ironically for someone as financially savvy as Levy he forgot that football is a money game and money talks and gets what it wants in this world, rules be damned.
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Honestly it comes down to the exact same reason the US is in the ****ter right now: even if an organisation prepared to face a degree of corruption, the degree of corruption they are planning for is basically an extension of what that organisation would do - but if the rival organisation is prepared to be so overtly corrupt to the point that it is unfathomable that anybody would be so blatant, yet against all checks and balances carry on regardless with little to no reason for them to stop, then you may as well not have bothered trying to play fairly in the first place

The obvious collusion between the PSR Gang of Chelsea, the Mansourites, Newcastle and Villa in recent years is utterly blatant that any journalist or pundit claiming they had no idea what is going on should be treated as an accessory, and yet it continues season after season

And realistically the Saudi Pro League needs looking at too, because while the Chinese Super League spread the windfall around various clubs (Chelsea with Oscar, us with Dembele and Paulinho, Southampton with Pelle etc) the Saudi League only seems interested in players from a select few clubs (or, dare I suggest, agencies...?) and what really makes it suspect is how Villa have been the biggest beneficiaries of this, making almost 50% more than any of the Mansourites, Chelsea or Liverpool in transfer fees at the exact time they're PSR's biggest cheats
 
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