Its probably bullshit, granted. But what makes you think this? I never really got the impression from Ronaldo that he is a loyalist. He said good things about SAF when he left but I never really got the impression that he was United through and through or displayed that kind of love for the club like Henry did with Arsenal for example.
When ever he speaks about United its very highly. His name is still sung at Old Trafford and hes more than aware of it. Hes a legend to most at United and knows he is wanted back so if he was going to return to england I cannot imagine Chelsea or any other club will come into the equation. Funnily enough he still has his Manchester home, he rented it out until recently...
I cant see this happening! If Jose does come back I'm sure he'd like bring him with him , but I cant see us splashing that sort of cash!
This. Most people seem to think its to stop teams with rich owners spending money. Its really to stop teams that DONT have rich owners spending money that they cannot afford in order to compete with the teams that ARE rich and going bankrupt in the process.
You can't reason with the unreasonable. The same people that bleat on about FFP and it hampering the top spenders seem to ignore the whole aim and purpose behind it + club finances. The more you earn, the more you can spend and there are more loopholes in FFP than Swiss Cheese. The loopholes mean clubs can boost their profits (significantly) to cover their losses in order to break even, which is pretty much all you need to do. As long as you are cutting your losses (even if just gradually), UEFA will do nothing and that's even if FFP passes the courts.
FFP is primarily to prevent clubs going bankrupt but doesn't involve means testing owners so regardless of whether Abramovich can afford it, he shouldn't be allowed to run a club at big losses. As you said later said though their are numerous loopholes. Regardless it's called Financial Fairplay not Financial Stability so clearly that wasn't the only idea behind it.
Steady on chaps, Jose isn't cast in concrete yet, so Ronaldo is nothing more than a rumour, and a very expensive one at that. Besides, we need a midfielder and CD more than another forward, even one as good as Ronaldo. Of course we'd have him in a flash, but what would that do to the egos and attitudes of the other players?? Hugely overpaid stars always create disharmony. As for FFP ?? Forget it, it won't make a gnats difference to any of Europes' top teams except to strengthen their hold on their positions. Another dumb, unworkable load of tosh from FIFA and EUFA.
Roman could pull a sneaky one and get Ronaldo AND Falcao! Now that would be terrifying from a defenders' point of view; already challenging enough with Mazacar
FFP is far better at tackling 3rd party ownership. At City and Chelsea for instance, the clubs are owned solely by Mansour and Abramovich respectively so there's nothing to stop say... Mansour's cousin or Abramovich's son from investing in the club one way or the other. FFP really is a poorly devised "plan". If they were genuinely interested in fair competition there would have been a far better way to do it. Losses aren't a concern to them, anyone that thinks they'd be weeping if Chelsea, City, Malaga etc went out of business tomorrow has another thing coming. The whole purpose of it is to maintain status quo i.e the old G-14
