There’s been a lot of talk on here about how FFP limits our activity in the January loan window.
My gripe with FFP is that it limits spending to how much profit you earn. This basically means that large clubs will stay big and small clubs will stay small.
Imagine in a business environment if you set a rule where businesses could only invest proportionally based on revenues. You would basically just entrench the current hierarchy permanently.
UEFA state the explicit reasoning given for financial fair play is to prevent clubs from going bankrupt and folding. But surely FFP is preventing smaller clubs like us far more from succeeding than it is clubs in the top half of the Premshit and those on parachute payments in our division.
FFP has a clear loophole where it allows you to spend more if you make more money. The obvious loophole is that you boost commercial revenues which United and City easily do.
I would like to see greater allowances for this rule to actually and ironically balance “fairness” so that JB has the opportunity to put £20M, £30M or £40M into the club if he wants to make that investment but without financial risk that may jeopardise our future. There would obviously have to checks and balances in place but these must be “fairer” than current rules which aren’t actually fair. FFP is a misnomer in my view.
How about you?
My gripe with FFP is that it limits spending to how much profit you earn. This basically means that large clubs will stay big and small clubs will stay small.
Imagine in a business environment if you set a rule where businesses could only invest proportionally based on revenues. You would basically just entrench the current hierarchy permanently.
UEFA state the explicit reasoning given for financial fair play is to prevent clubs from going bankrupt and folding. But surely FFP is preventing smaller clubs like us far more from succeeding than it is clubs in the top half of the Premshit and those on parachute payments in our division.
FFP has a clear loophole where it allows you to spend more if you make more money. The obvious loophole is that you boost commercial revenues which United and City easily do.
I would like to see greater allowances for this rule to actually and ironically balance “fairness” so that JB has the opportunity to put £20M, £30M or £40M into the club if he wants to make that investment but without financial risk that may jeopardise our future. There would obviously have to checks and balances in place but these must be “fairer” than current rules which aren’t actually fair. FFP is a misnomer in my view.
How about you?
