Do you guys actually consider violating FFP to be the equivalent of bribing refs or paying other clubs to throw matches?
I want to get a read of peoples opinions here:
- Yes, it is the exact same. Cheating is Cheating
- No, obviously paying your own players and coaches more money to entice them to join your club is not as bad as bribing refs and match fixing.
- Financial Doping is actually worse.
Personally:
If i found out Roman had been bribing refs or Paying the other clubs to throw matches, I would be devastated.
I am entirely fine with Paying players more money that FFP allows.
Eg. Restaurant A has an early start in a neighborhood and earns 4 times as much revenue as Restaurant B.
Every good chef Restaurant B hires gets poached away by Restaurant A, because the local laws dictate Restaurant A can spend 4 times as much on payroll and the ingredients it buys.
Do you think this is fair competition?
The way FFP is setup, whether intentional or not creates an established hierarchy
FFP is something I find to be an unjust rule set. I dont care that unjust rules get broken. Eg. before Washington state legalized weed I knew of many people who smoked. I never judged them because I didnt agree with the law.
No, of course not. IMO FFP rules shouldn’t even exist, they’re terrible. So I don’t consider breaking rules that shouldn’t exist to be ″cheating″.
They don’t make the competition more fair or more competitive and they don’t even prevent teams from going bust (Derby County?). Nobody will convince me that FFP rules are for anything other than to preserve the status quo.
I’m sure people will say ″you’re a City fan, of course you don’t like FFP″, but nah, the rules just suck. I think La Liga’s salary cap is a much better idea than the EPL’s FFP. Granted that too has flaws, but it’d still be better to have something like that. If it were up to me there would just be a soft salary cap, and anything clubs pay over that they’re charged a 100% fee on which is distributed between the clubs under the cap (in full, none of it should be pocketed by the FA!). eg. there’s a 100m per year salary cap, Man City spend 200m, so they pay a 100m fee on top of that that’s shared between all the teams below the cap.
That would still allow teams to spend money they have (and if they have it, why shouldn’t they be able to spend it?) while actually making the league more competitive as lower spending teams would be financially rewarded for spending kess giving them more to invest in the future to improve. Could give a portion of it to lower league teams too, who often have financial issues, to help out the rest of the pyramid.