- Jun 11, 2012
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FFP 'scuppered' if Man City win UEFA appeal - expert - Football365
UEFA may have left themselves exposed by banning Man City from European competition…www.football365.com
This. If UEFA's punishment doesn't stick then FFP is dead and it gives a green light to any other club to systematically cheat. Man City agreed to the regulations then set up a network of ways for the owners to inject funding through the side door. Maybe they went for a 2yr ban knowing it can be cut in half and still hurt them.
This part:
They've sold stakes to various people, bought clubs across the world, and in some cases used the accounts of the other clubs to offset City's losses.
Ignore that it's from a Liverpool account, it's a good link to Der Spiegel's investigation:
They aimed to be sustainable, they told fans and the league that, and this year made a before tax profit of just 10m according to this: https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...guide-2017-18-accounts-manchester-united-city
Not to mention they (and PSG) have already negotiated settlements to avoid exclusion from the Champions League. Imagine the losses if they hadn't been cheating. A lack of CL money and not being able to count on the dodgy sponsorships would, as the F365 piece says, 'force a realigning of their finances to avoid running into potential further FFP problems.' This has been going on for years. In that time they have won almost everything. All of those records are now like baseball's home run hitters and should have an asterisk next to them.
If they get away with it then the game is truly dead.
Well, FFP will be dead. The game itself will be no worse than it is already.