Gotta make sure whatever they end up fining city, city earns right back.
This is so dumb. England is competitive because of this. Stop making it easier for top clubs to stay on top.
Get rid of FFP, and create a salary cap with a luxury tax, where all the excess spend gets sent to the lower clubs. It’s the only way that these small teams might be able to compete someday.
The headline is misleading…but personally I’m done with the PL. How can you take it seriously when a billionaire bought Chelsea and then they bought it, and the a State bought City and they won it. It’s not sporting competition any longer.
Only way Arsenal, United or Liverpool can win the league is by weeding out the competition.
failing to mention that Liverpool won the league earlier than City ever could
Such a petulant comment.
Liverpool beat City to the title a few years back.
New “fan”, I take it?
Hi, newer PL fan here. Curious, is Man City in an unlimited money loop?
FFP is designed for some historical teams to monopolize the league. All the new rules Newcastle and relegating Everton for 20 mil overspend. Chelsea and City who became successful at the expense of the big reds in FFP trouble as well. I hope Everton fans realize that they have won their last title.
Can we please have an independent regulator look at the EPL rather than the clubs?
Seems the FA is doing everything in their power to destroy the Premier League
Terrible news
This just means that more teams will inevitably end up in Evertons situation unable to compete. This is bad news for all but top 6. Rigged
Everton situation was not caused by the lack of money but the extremely wasteful use of money on poor transfers.
That’s not what the PL’ panel said in their report.
And if they had more money the money they wasted would not matter as much …
You’re missing the point. The PL sustainable rules are based on a threshold for losses allowed. Losses are a function of revenue. If the bigger clubs will get a higher share of that revenue, that just gives them an even greater advantage over the smaller clubs.
The most realistic way for smaller clubs to compete would be to spend more in the short term so they can buy better players. That way they can get a share of more TV money and European Football.
But, if by doing that they break the rules, then they don’t have the ability to do so and the status quo remains with the exception of the occcasional Leicester City like fluke season.
Whilst I don’t disagree with your point that there was a string of poor decision making regarding transfers, that’s not the reason we’re in this mess. We’re building a new stadium and one of the main investors had to be ousted (Russia/Ukraine war, you can suss it out). This, on top of an already poor financial situation, thanks to our wonderful owner Fahrad Moshiri, are what led to the current situation.
Stadium work doesn’t really count towards FFP and Usmanov was funneling money through the stadium, like that bogus fee given to have first rejection on naming rights.
You are half right (and also half wrong 😬) about the stadium work. The PL changed the rules halfway through the period Everton were assessed for. One year they were allowed to set aside the interest payments on loans for the new stadium but the next year they weren’t allowed to set these aside. The PL could at least try to keep their rules consistent.
Everton spent less than Man City, Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and probably some others. It’s caused by both.
- Let’s not act like Newcastle aren’t a part of this now.
Someone will be kicked out shortly. They are deciding who over the next few seasons
I think it would’ve been spurs if Ange wasn’t a wizard.
How exactly?
Why not just redistribute City’s excess fake earnings instead
People need to realise what a large factor behind our collapse was.
We did well, and we wanted to continue to do well and even improve, so we spent more money and paid higher wages, we continued to do well so spent more money and paid higher wages, the amount we was spending fell within FFP but only if we qualified for Europe.
Then we didn’t qualify for Europe and all of a sudden FFP was after us because our spending was too high, FFP is there to kill you the ONE season where you don’t perform so well, forcing you to sell key players or shrink your squad, which in effect played a large role in killing us
This is bait. The new rule book allocating money is completely separate to the Everton case or any FFP case. But just say Man City in any news article to generate outrage.
How would this help!?
So it’s going from a 1.6 ratio to a 1.8… I’m bad at maths but how would it have impacted the prize money difference last season?