Financial fair play my arse.

[AKBapologist]

And so it begins.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...tihad-air.html

TL:DR

City have sold off stadium naming rights to... themselves.

Won't cover there horrific year on year loses mind, but this in it's self should be a test in whether FFP has any teeth.


Beyond that, we're fucked, doomed, Wenger needs to go, we need a sugar daddy etc etc etc

[LDG]

TD:LR

Too didn't long read

[Kano]

do you know the details of the deal yet?

does he own the airline?

[Darth Vela]

I guess we'll see if the sponsorship deal miraculously brings them in line with the minimum requirements for the FFP rules, it wouldn't be a shock, would it?

[Japan Shaking All Over]

it was always going to be the way, dont think teams like them were going to let something like fair play stand in their way

And they probably didnt need an army of lawyers, weve seen the way business gets done, when Qatar got the WC!

[AKBapologist]

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/...s&cat=football

£100million for naming rights...

[Cripps_orig]

we're fucked, doomed, Wenger needs to go, we need a sugar daddy

[Özim]

What did people expect exactly? Stuff like this was always going to happen people who thought any different must have been the ones saying Chelsea wil be f*cked when Abrahmovic leaves, hasn't left yet and doesn't appear to have any intention to.

[Letters]

What did people expect exactly? Stuff like this was always going to happen people who thought any different must have been the ones saying Chelsea wil be f*cked when Abrahmovic leaves, hasn't left yet and doesn't appear to have any intention to.

Chelsea would have been f*cked had Abrahmovic left. The fact he didn't doesn't invalidate that.

Would you like us to be a billionaire's plaything too? Screw that.
If football is just about who has the biggest chequebook (and it increasingly is) then it's no longer a sport I'd want to follow (and it increasingly isn't).

If you're happy to cheer silverware bought with a billionaire's money like the knuckly draggers at City and Chelsea then good luck to you. It's as empty as buying a degree off the internet and then putting the framed certificate on your wall.

[IBK]

Chelsea would have been f*cked had Abrahmovic left. The fact he didn't doesn't invalidate that.

Would you like us to be a billionaire's plaything too? Screw that.
If football is just about who has the biggest chequebook (and it increasingly is) then it's no longer a sport I'd want to follow (and it increasingly isn't).

If you're happy to cheer silverware bought with a billionaire's money like the knuckly draggers at City and Chelsea then good luck to you. It's as empty as buying a degree off the internet and then putting the framed certificate on your wall.

Yup. That just about sums it up! Despite the viewing figures, football's dying on its arse. Its losing what makes it such a draw - the atmosphere; the loyalties; the heritage. Fans are putting up with it for now - but I see the financial doping; and mercenary approach by players going only one way - and that is to make ever growing numbers of ordinary ticket buying fans like us feel increasingly like you describe. I reckon I care 50% less about my team than I did 10 years ago - and that's not just getting older - its just that all the bullshit squeezes the enthusiasm out of you...