FFP RIP?

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How does this development, if at all, change the potential for shipping out our deadwood this summer? Are we moving into a position where we can accept nominal fees to get certain players out where we had limited wriggle room in this respect to date?

Or is there is still a PL realised loss on such players consideration to contend with?
 
Not surprising as City drove over it with a reputed £50M worth of lawyers...and Covid is backing up over it a few times to make sure.

Replace it with exactly what and who will benefit the most?
Without going into it £50m of legal fees or not the trumped up charges were chucked out and City were completely exonerated except for failing to cooperate for the simple reason everytime they submitted evidence it was leaked to the UK press (I wonder by who?). It's a travesty that it cost the £50m in the first place but as we know UEFA had a hard on to finish City driven by the two teams who reside across our respective cities. Again, as we know FFP was flawed from the very begining and has proved about as useless as a chocolate teapot. I genuinely think that City beating FFP has done football a favour in the long term if it allows owners to invest their own cash into their football clubs. Why on earth was that ever made such an heinous crime in the first place? We don't know what will replace it as yet, we just have to wait and see. City killed FFP and COVID buried it. Good riddance I say.
 
This thread should be called Football RIP and should have been started as soon as Abramovich bought Chelsea.
 

This is the latest thoughts apparently:

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The Financial Fair Play (FFP) as we know it may have run its course after just over 10 years. As reported by Gazzetta dello Sport, UEFA will discuss a new system of rules for continental football tomorrow in a videoconference at the European Parliament, which will be very different from the one devised in 2010 by the Platini-Infantino duo.

The basic idea, according to the newspaper, will be the transition from the idea of "spending as much as you take in" to "spending as much as you need without wasting". In light of the need to change the system there are obviously the economic effects of the pandemic, with disastrous figures far more than 2008, and virtually no clubs in line with the parameters.

The new model will therefore focus on waste and exaggeration, because football is in crisis but players' salaries and commissions to agents are not decreasing.

One idea could be the introduction of a salary cap, disguised as a luxury tax to ensure compliance with European regulations: you buy a player, you pay a percentage to be distributed to the system. In addition, sporting sanctions could be reduced in favour of greater economic sanctions.

In any case, it is unlikely that UEFA would want to impose itself on clubs without dialogue. The crisis requires shared action, but it must be done quickly. Not everyone will be happy, but something has to be done to protect the system. Foreign leagues, such as the German and Spanish leagues, which have been implementing stricter rules for some time, are well aware of this.

In Italy, on the other hand, it will be necessary to intervene as hoped by president Gravina, who was the first to launch the idea of a salary cap. The UEFA work has already begun with the aim of achieving approval by the end of the year, with entry into force from 2022, and a period of gradual adaptation, a few years, before going full steam ahead and consolidating better than the previous system.'
 
Everton opening day 21/22 season
Jan Oblak
Kimmich,Skriniar, Marquinhos, Digne
Bailey, de Jong, Pjanic, Neymar
Lewandowski, Mbappé.
I would like to see a spot reserved for Seamus. Yes, I acknowledge there are one or two GOTers who feel he needs to work on his crosses, but he's still young and what's most important is he bleeds Blue!
 
---------------Donarumma-----------------

Aarons----Godfrey---Koulibaly------Digne

----------Doucoure---Allan-----------------

Bailey-----------------------------Grealish

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I get the idea of "great, now this isn't even the real game anymore" shouts but this actually puts clubs on a more level footing. Make it ironclad that the club is not responsible for any "debts" incurred by the owner in terms of ramming in players who have outrageous salaries or whatever. Make it so that if the owner pulls out, for whatever reason, the club isn't the one left holding the bag of dynamite next to an open fire. Let Usmanov, City, PSG, whomever, spend as much as they want as long as THEY are basically the guarantor. No idea how it would work but FFP made it so you could only get a TINY bit better every year whilst the clubs at the top could get significantly better because they had enormous revenue already.
 

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