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Financial Fair Play
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Shearer?
Bedfordspurs
Joe Kinnear
Silly call that
Allows teams to really mug the system off
nelto
Clint Dempsey
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
FFP officially dead - City killed it stone dead with their lawyers.
Now is the age of the billionaires spending on their clubs - owners across the leagues are eagerly anticipating what's coming.
Well, except our eternally useless duo, the more affluent of whom is hiding on his sailboat in the Bahamas doing absolutely nothing.
Sigh.
Now is the age of the billionaires spending on their clubs - owners across the leagues are eagerly anticipating what's coming.
Well, except our eternally useless duo, the more affluent of whom is hiding on his sailboat in the Bahamas doing absolutely nothing.
Sigh.
El Dante
Les Ferdinand
It’s complete BS. Forget moving FFP, football may as well be moved to RIP...now the last doubt has been removed, and it’s confirmed that football is a rich man’s play toy. Football is a money tinkling contest. Whoever can spend the most money to buy the best players will win out and NOTHING can be done to stop it.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE FFP?
Sports lawyer Daniel Geey speaking to Sky Sports News...
"The main UEFA objection was to stem European club losses, from the 1.7bn euro mark in 2011, to clubs collectively making profit. That has to be seen as a success for UEFA.
"We're now talking about very narrow grounds of breaches, and City's lawyers have put forward very specific arguments as to why they were not in breach.
"I'm not sure this puts the cat among the pigeons in terms of the whole FFP regime, but this is obviously a very significant victory for Emirates Marketing Project, based on them saying that UEFA had got it wrong over a period of time."
PREMIER LEAGUE INVESTIGATION REMAINS ONGOING
While Emirates Marketing Project's European ban has been overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, they do remain under investigation by the Premier League.
The league opened their investigation in March 2019 - just one day after UEFA revealed they were looking into the claims that City had breached their financial fair play rules.
The Premier League are looking into those same allegations, as well as claims over City's recruitment of academy players and third-party ownership.
Pep Guardiola: Emirates Marketing Project 'deserve' to be in next season's Champions League
Sports lawyer Daniel Geey speaking to Sky Sports News...
"The main UEFA objection was to stem European club losses, from the 1.7bn euro mark in 2011, to clubs collectively making profit. That has to be seen as a success for UEFA.
"We're now talking about very narrow grounds of breaches, and City's lawyers have put forward very specific arguments as to why they were not in breach.
"I'm not sure this puts the cat among the pigeons in terms of the whole FFP regime, but this is obviously a very significant victory for Emirates Marketing Project, based on them saying that UEFA had got it wrong over a period of time."
PREMIER LEAGUE INVESTIGATION REMAINS ONGOING
While Emirates Marketing Project's European ban has been overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, they do remain under investigation by the Premier League.
The league opened their investigation in March 2019 - just one day after UEFA revealed they were looking into the claims that City had breached their financial fair play rules.
The Premier League are looking into those same allegations, as well as claims over City's recruitment of academy players and third-party ownership.
Pep Guardiola: Emirates Marketing Project 'deserve' to be in next season's Champions League
Legohamster
Tom Huddlestone
Hahaha.
FFP is done.
levy and Lewis can spend like they have always wanted to
FFP is done.
levy and Lewis can spend like they have always wanted to
Finney Is Back
Colin Calderwood
They already are mate!
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
Can anyone explain to me, in simple terms what city were actually accused of (I understood they were inflating sponsorship income by using subsidiary companies of the owners?) and what has changed in that discovery since the ban, as in are we saying that UEFA got it wrong or have they found a technicality to get off?
jts1882
Dean Richards
I think PSG got off similar charges because of the time bar. City argued they should as well (albeit without hiring mini-Platinis).
The report I heard said that CAS decided City didn't hide the dodgy payments, which given they were obvious for all to see might be technically correct.
P.S. I'm glad our prospects of 5th are remote. If United or Chelsea get 5th I'll feel better about the decision.
El Dante
Les Ferdinand
I don’t think I’ll feel better about the decision although, admittedly it would be funny if Chelsea finished 5th and missed out.
City not being penalised sets a completely negative precedent, plus further strengthens City. I’m sure now they’ll spend big in the summer as a final big middle finger at all this. Whereas, had City been banned, it would have curtailed the spending of rival clubs, at a time when we ourselves are not spending, and would mean that we remained at a more competitive level to them.