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I imagine that even the super rich clubs would be a bit put out by a £50M fine...although ultimately they can afford to pay it. As someone else has already said this is the first stage of punishment. If they break the FFP rules again next season you imagine the punishment will be even more severe, possibly including being thrown out of the competition. The fine though will be a huge deterent to all but the richest clubs. Even Chelsea will have to sit up and take notice of this. Manu Utd are actually going to be very lucky to miss out on Europe this season if they are planning to spend the £200M that the press keep talking about.
I'd love to know what they plan to do with the money though. Hopefully it will go into developing football somewhere at grassroots level but you have a feeling that it will just end up lining someones pockets.
Blatter will just order a couple more bottles of bubbly off the menu, the self appointed ****
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