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Financial Fair Play

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I think you can spend any money outside the broadcast ones as you like. Which is bad for the smaller ones I suppose, whose earnings mainly come from that, but it prevents them overspending.
 
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Well it's good to see that the powers that be are listening to us by introducing some form of wage cap...

Indeed what.

Does that really mean a club qualifying for the CL cannot increase wages in line with the extra TV revenue, which is usually consider separately from commercial and matchday income?
According to BBC Sport - Premier League agrees new financial regulations
...However, that only applies to revenue centrally distributed by the Premier League - essentially TV income - and does not cover extra money coming in from increases in commercial or matchday income.

Which presumably excludes CL income and thus just sounds like another way of maintaining the status quo to me :-k
 
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Which makes it even more important you reach 4th place this season. The 'big league' is about to become even more exclusive.
 
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Which makes it even more important you reach 4th place this season. The 'big league' is about to become even more exclusive.

It gets more exclusive year on year and don't we know it.

Until they take money away (which is never in a happen) then it will be the haves vs the have nots
 
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Which presumably excludes CL income and thus just sounds like another way of maintaining the status quo to me :-k

Of course it is.

So many people have had the wool pulled over their eyes about so called FFP, it's ridiculous.

Effectively, this rule will allow the biggest clubs (who can earn hugely increased revenues from as yet untapped commercial potential) to continue player wage inflation without censure.

Lesser clubs (whose commercial appeal to potential sponsors is negligible) will have their wage budget capped.

Fairness be damned.
 
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There must be something else to it. Why else would the vast majority of clubs vote for it? It comes across as clubs valuing the satisfaction of safety over ambition, which is sad.
 
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There must be something else to it. Why else would the vast majority of clubs vote for it? It comes across as clubs valuing the satisfaction of safety over ambition, which is sad.

Ambition died a long time ago. Avoiding relegation is the target for all but the select few anyway.
 
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I suppose the PL regulations mean different things to different teams. To my club, it's restricting wealth so we will oppose it. To teams like Man United, it's building a wall between them and the poorer clubs while plastering it and painting it as beneficial to these clubs, so they will support it. To teams like Wigan and Sunderland it ensures that disaster is averted if the worst happens and they're relegated, so they will support it too.

What I don't understand is why teams like Everton and yourselves support it. You're already at a disadvantage to Liverpool, United, Chelsea and Arsenal because they have huge commercial streams already, and the importance of these will only be amplified with the new regulations. I'm not sure, but I think our sales from merchandising and things like that are above yours too, I know our sponsorship deals are. Everton are doomed now. If you don't get Champions League this season, that too could be a bit of a blow, at least until you get this new stadium. Even then, you might already have too much ground to make up.

More than half of the league will suffer from these but only two (I think) opposed it. Like I said, I must be missing something.
 
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I suppose the PL regulations mean different things to different teams. To my club, it's restricting wealth so we will oppose it. To teams like Man United, it's building a wall between them and the poorer clubs while plastering it and painting it as beneficial to these clubs, so they will support it. To teams like Wigan and Sunderland it ensures that disaster is averted if the worst happens and they're relegated, so they will support it too.

What I don't understand is why teams like Everton and yourselves support it. You're already at a disadvantage to Liverpool, United, Chelsea and Arsenal because they have huge commercial streams already, and the importance of these will only be amplified with the new regulations. I'm not sure, but I think our sales from merchandising and things like that are above yours too, I know our sponsorship deals are. Everton are doomed now. If you don't get Champions League this season, that too could be a bit of a blow, at least until you get this new stadium. Even then, you might already have too much ground to make up.

More than half of the league will suffer from these but only two (I think) opposed it. Like I said, I must be missing something.

They are now. But only since Mansour took over.

Spurs' earnings from those sources were significantly greater than City's previously.
 
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They are now. But only since Mansour took over.

Spurs' earnings from those sources were significantly greater than City's previously.


I have this picture in my head of Mansour walking into the merchandising shop at City's ground and buying 10 thousand scarves...
 
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To continue the discussion from a couple of pages back clubs being able to sell their own tv rights is unlikely to happen because you need support of 14 clubs when voting to change league rules.
 
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Do these rules matter for the top clubs, surely the Uefa rules are more stringent with regards debt.

Am I right in thinking that now that Arsenal have paid of its stadium they cannot raise there wages bill by more than 4million, despite the leap in profits for them next year, and with this it will also mean that despite our new stadium, we too cannot raise our wage bill by more than 4million.

Surely a clubs wage bill should be run within the clubs means. Our new income rise on matchday would cover that 4m in two or three home games.

Shouldn't there be a clause in there where depending on a profit rise due to stadium infrastructure build the wage bill can reflect that move.

Having two sets of rules is barmy and over complicates everything.
 
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So, how much and where did the TV money go

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So each notch in the Prem worth an extra c£1m, meaning only £5m difference between us and the highest, Man U, but £16m between us and lowest, QPR.

Good to see a system of reward reflecting performance and based on merit.
 
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does anyone know how to get hold of the financial records of say PSG. Would be interesting read to look at there structures.
 
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So each notch in the Prem worth an extra c£1m, meaning only £5m difference between us and the highest, Man U, but £16m between us and lowest, QPR.

Good to see a system of reward reflecting performance and based on merit.


More like £750k per place, but the idea is good.
 
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