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Financial Fair Play

The existence of Santa Claus and unicorns is more believable than FFP rules actually being enforced to prevent financial cheating.
 
Lilbaz said:
Uefa looking to bring in salary cap.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/uefa-salary-cap-ffp-tax-24750262
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It's a smart idea with two major flaws.

  1. The spending cap is still based on turnover, so oil money will still sneak its way in via the backdoor and hire better lawyers than UEFA can compete with
  2. The luxury tax is split between all the other teams in the competition. With an endless supply of money, that will always stretch the oil clubs into the distance. The luxury tax should have the full amount of the overspend going to each and every other club in the competition.
 
scaramanga said:
It's a smart idea with two major flaws.

  1. The spending cap is still based on turnover, so oil money will still sneak its way in via the backdoor and hire better lawyers than UEFA can compete with
  2. The luxury tax is split between all the other teams in the competition. With an endless supply of money, that will always stretch the oil clubs into the distance. The luxury tax should have the full amount of the overspend going to each and every other club in the competition.
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Uefa are not that interested in making the competition more competitive. They want the bigger teams to get further in the competition as more people will watch. But they have to do something about so many clubs being in a financial mess. So if the oil clubs want to back door money through dodgy naming rights deals or whatever, they don't mind that much. As it won't put that club at financial risk.
 
Lilbaz said:
Uefa are not that interested in making the competition more competitive. They want the bigger teams to get further in the competition as more people will watch. But they have to do something about so many clubs being in a financial mess. So if the oil clubs want to back door money through dodgy naming rights deals or whatever, they don't mind that much. As it won't put that club at financial risk.
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And, of course, take their cut from the luxury tax.
 
Raziel said:
hahaha ... these fudging guys wipe their ass with FFP

https://twitter.com/x/status/1425390433186861062
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Lilbaz said:
So the prem and football league will change their rules to match? That's a lot of clubs that will have to sell players or fall foul. Leicester, everton, villa, west ham included. Possibly arsenal and liverpool.

Interesting.
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It's all still a factor of revenue though. City have proven that if your lawyers are good enough, you can call anything revenue.
 
scaramanga said:
It's all still a factor of revenue though. City have proven that if your lawyers are good enough, you can call anything revenue.
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They'll certainly try.

They are talking of going further and having a set cap aswell. A club can't spend over a certain amount. How much that is is up for negotiation. But for argument lets say it is £500m. No club can spend over that amount in a season on wages/player amortisation/agents fees.
 
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