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Manchester City are free to play Champions League football next season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday lifted a two-season ban from European competitions imposed by UEFA.
Manchester City are free to play Champions League football next season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday lifted a two-season ban from European competitions imposed by UEFA.
there was no doubt about it, the sheikhs ruined football.
In a way, but Chelsea and Roman Abramovich were the ones that started absolutely destroying the transfer market. Chelsea deserve to be despised for that.
It is a little different, I understand what you mean but it is absolutely not comparable to the sciecchi, who have behind them interests that have little to do with football.
Debt isn't necessarily bad, it's how almost all things in business are financed. It's unreasonable to expect clubs to cash-flow everything. Problems is when things get financed on hopes and dreams. This is the downside of a pro/rel system though. Owners become desperate to either reach the next level and survive the current level and they take on too much risk on the business side.I don’t think that teams should be limited in their spending as long as the club is not going into debt to do it. I don’t see why historically successful teams should be the only ones who can spend big.
That said the ethical side of things and ownership of teams is another issue, and it shouldn’t just be a monetary check.
Liverpool is not even in the top ten richest clubs in the Premier League from an ownership standpoint. Mansour is valued at 20b. FSG is valued at 2.7b. Clubs like Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Newcastle (with Mike Ashley) have more money than Liverpool.1. We all knew this was going to happen.
2. It's a bit rich when fans of clubs like Arsenal, United, Liverpool, Bayern, Real, Barca, etc. talk about FFP and clubs like City, Chelsea, and PSG ruining the sport. Do we really want a sport where a select handful of clubs can actually spend money and dominate? Our current situation is far from ideal IMO, but it's better than the alternative of only the big money clubs from traditional means are allowed to spend.
Club worth is different from worth of the owner. FFP was meant to prevent the wealth of the ownership from overtaking the club worth. Maybe you can argue that the Liverpool's owners are worth less, but Liverpool's football revenue streams are significantly higher, that's why they can operate at a much higher level, and why FFP is an idiotic idea. It keeps you in whatever football revenue lane you are in. The punishment for breaking those rules is also a joke.Liverpool is not even in the top ten richest clubs in the Premier League from an ownership standpoint. Mansour is valued at 20b. FSG is valued at 2.7b. Clubs like Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Newcastle (with Mike Ashley) have more money than Liverpool.
The succeed(ed) by leveraging FFP well. FFP was not dumb, it was poorly enforced. There is a difference.
As far as I know Chelsea has never inflated their revenue by funneling money through fake sponsor contracts so that they can greatly exceed their permitted spending.And as a Chelsea fan, I understand in an ideal world we would not be able to spend our way out of mistakes. That should be the point. We'd be more or less stuck with Kepa until we developed a replacement.
I'm talking about an ideal system, one that would be similar to NHL and NFL, a hard min/max spending cap. We'd be stuck with Kepa like the Blues were stuck with Allen. What I think would be ideal would prevent teams from spending their way out of mistakes, they would have to find alternate means and let the mistakes ride themselves out.As far as I know Chelsea has never inflated their revenue by funneling money through fake sponsor contracts so that they can greatly exceed their permitted spending.
Yeah they’ll make that back in 3 minutes.What has to make us think is that everything is reduced to a 10M fine which for them is like buying a package of peanuts.