In light of what’s just happened to Everton FFP is once again a hot topic, and I just wanted to highlight some clear facts a lot of people are missing that show how the people who run football are hypocritical and are an absolute joke when it comes to running their own rules
FFP was first established in 2009 for the sole purpose to prevent professional football clubs spending more than they earn in the pursuit of success, and in doing so not getting into financial problems which might threaten their long-term survival. - this was implemented after the events that happened to Leeds where we almost lost them as a club. This purpose quickly changed, forgetting about the small clubs being abused and focused towards small clubs becoming successful by closing the financial gap between them and the big super teams. We’ve already seen from the creation of the super league that the big teams feel that they are threatened and want maintain their status at all cost, this is why the rules were adapted post 2012
You might say that a team like Man City shouldn’t be able increase their ability to spend because of their owners. But with the creation of the premier league and it’s large injection of money for the big teams, it’s seem that they made it impossible to get to the same level as them without money
Then their is the simple fact that man city have never spent more than the likes of Man Utd, Real Madrid and Barcelona. They’ve simply closed the gap. People hate them for their success, but it’s not cause of money, their owners could take over man utd tomorrow without injecting money and turn them back into world beaters. They are the kind of owners everyone wants, smart owners who aren’t greedy, who don’t take money out
I understand that the rules are the rules, but maybe the rules are wrong and designed to keep the big clubs fat and to prevent to competition. If we can’t take the money away from the big clubs then how else do we challenge them besides the way man city have done?
The only purpose of FFP is to protect the big old club like United, Arsenal and Liverpool. If they want to level the playing field they should use salary cap/budget cap. Leicester won the league than their stat players were brought by the big club and relegated. So with FFP club like United can squander 100m+ on transfer ever season and even if they were not in top4 every season they can still afford to do so because they have great commercial revenue. Other smaller clubs even they slowly develop themselves to be successful but one wrong window/poor season can break them and they can hardly get up again. Sorry for my poor English as it is not my first language. Expected thousands of downvotes from fans of those big old clubs because they deserved to be successful forever and other late comers should not be allowed to catch up with them. And any breach if financial regulations deserved demotion to National League. Funny fans always use Juventus as examples and they seems doesn’t know that Juventus was demoted for buying referees, which I think is much more severe than breaking FFP but of coz spending more on players is way worse than buying referee in their minds. If average reddit users have a chance to become a referee I think they would permanently ban a player for pulling the shirt to stop a play. Funny the number of United fans begging for Saudi takeover while asking City demotion and discredit their success because of ‘dirty money’