Possible? Yes, but only in the sense it’s also possible that Taylor Swift will stop by my house today and serve beers and wings to me and my friends while we watch the gridiron.

I’ve never bought the argument that the historical advantage the mega-clubs have over smaller clubs is more “legitimate” than the advantages new money has brought to clubs like Chelsea and City. Of course they’d like everyone to accept this empty myth, but football has always been about haves and have-nots as long as I’ve been alive. The fact that a small club could overnight have unlimited resources to compete on the open market terrifies executives at clubs like Real Madrid, Bayern, Arsenal and United as it should, which is why we have things like FFP and an inevitable SuperLeague. Their historical closed-circle hegemony is not so safe in this new world as they may have to face actual open market competition for players and trophies. References to a club “spending its own money” as opposed to the money its owners invest is a bullshit smokescreen used by the mega clubs to justify their understandable concern that simply being big and well-known may not always be enough to produce results and maintain their status.

“maybe the rules are wrong and designed to keep the big clubs fat and to prevent to competition.

This was the main goal and purpose of FFP from day 1. The big historical club hegemony were threatened by the ease with which a newcomer like Abramovic could join their ranks. Look at Newcastle’s slow building process in comparison. They also have unlimited funds, but can’t follow the same model of Chelsea or Manchester City.