FFP Rules: More likely to inhibit rather than promote competition

[Kano]

The Champions League fund has been increased too I believe. If we replicate last season to this season, I think we would get about £60 million or something.

However that is supposition on what TV deal might come across but it'd be assured (based on 16 teams) we'd lose out on 17 days of matchday income, plus, the other days we might get from domestic cup draws. For us that's £3 million a match roughly, so £51 million we'd lose out on.

we need the swiss ramble on this one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

This is true.

[Niall_Quinn]

Maximising profits could have occured with just going one extra round in the Champions League. It's not about maximising profits, it's about enjoying the comforts resulting from a fairly basic and relatively easily attained level.

Ah, you're teasing me. Fair cop, well played.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Football as I knew it has been destroyed for ages.
It would make things worse but it's the logical conclusion of the game being all about the rich clubs and sod the rest.

This, the fact that id prefer another week of the Us open to our game on saturday. says alot to me about how much the game is dying and the Super league if it happens will be the final nail in the coffin for me.

[hobson's choice]

I don't see a super league happening in any our lifetime, for most of the clubs is just doesn't make any sense. Yeah they'll make some money in the short term, but clubs like Porto, Celtic, Ajax, and other big clubs in lesser will be nothing more than just filler clubs. And at some point their fans who are used to winning titles simply won't stand for it and just stop showing up.

I do see a time when there's gonna be some kinda proper world club type competition or CL games being played outside of Europe.

[Cripps_orig]

ARSENE WENGER fears a massive Manchester City sponsorship deal could make a ‘mockery’ of financial fair play.
City, owned by Sheikh Mansour, and Paris St Germain have been criticised for massive sponsorship deals with companies enjoying close links to their billionaire backers.
Etihad Airways have a 10-year agreement with City bringing in close to £400million a year, with many believing they have deliberately paid above the market price to pump money into the club.
Arsenal boss Wenger, whose side visit City tomorrow, said: “If the sponsorship deals are just a way of getting round financial fair play then it’s not financial fair play.
“It makes the system worse for me, as that would mean it makes a mockery of financial fair play.
“Originally, for financial fair play, sponsorship deals had to be at the level of the market price and I don’t know whether they will work or not.
“But what City do off the pitch, we’ve spoken about many times.
“On the pitch, they are an advert for football that’s always good to see.”


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz279wjJw7O

Hasnt even come in to play yet and the excuses are out for why we will be a bit shit

[Joker]

What's the "market price"? There's no objective way to determine it, it's all based on individuals/companies personal valuations surely?

[Dennis Bendtner]

What's the "market price"? There's no objective way to determine it, it's all based on individuals/companies personal valuations surely?

Compare the winning offer to rival offers you would assume.

[Syn]

Record profits for The Arsenal

A gazillion in cash reserves..

Handsome pay for Arsene.

[Kano]

What's the "market price"? There's no objective way to determine it, it's all based on individuals/companies personal valuations surely?

a market price exists everywhere, which is why so many businesses in competition with one another hold similar pricing.

it is also why every agrees that player prices have gone through the roof since the arrival of overseas investors and wages/fees have gone awry since then.