Financial Fair Play and Everton.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...e-on-citys-163400m-windfall-deal-2309866.html

Uefa respond to City naming rights deal...

"Uefa will use relevant experts to make assessments as to the fair value of any major sponsorship deals, using appropriate industry benchmarks," a spokesman told The Independent on Sunday. "These will then be considered by the Club Financial Control Panel, together with any relevant information the clubs present regarding the deals, when they assess the break-even requirements."

Hard hitting stuff.

Go Uefa!

Lol!!!
 

davek said:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...e-on-citys-163400m-windfall-deal-2309866.html

Uefa respond to City naming rights deal...

"Uefa will use relevant experts to make assessments as to the fair value of any major sponsorship deals, using appropriate industry benchmarks," a spokesman told The Independent on Sunday. "These will then be considered by the Club Financial Control Panel, together with any relevant information the clubs present regarding the deals, when they assess the break-even requirements."

Hard hitting stuff.

Go Uefa!

Lol!!!
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Eithiad is owned by Sheikh Masours brother - you couldnt make it up.
 
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Neiler said:
Eithiad is owned by Sheikh Masours brother - you couldnt make it up.
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I can see it panning out like this: Uefa panel find the deal excessive > City haggle with Uefa > City agree to accept less for the deal...probably a figure they've factored in already but still an enormous amouint.

Job done. Other big spending clubs follow suit. Rest of us still left behind.
 

davek said:
Cracking post mate. I think it's finally beginning to dawn on the Forrest Gump brigade who have seen these changes as good for non-elite clubs that the light at the end of the tunnel is really an express train heading our way.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2013243/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Financial-fair-play-merely-stifle-Manchester-City.html

"From the start, financial fair play was only going to benefit the very wealthiest or the smallest clubs without ambition. Those looking to build, to grow, to succeed, were going to be stifled"

This appears to contradict the findings published by the Financial Review Team !!!...!!¬FFS
 
I don't see why UEFA need to get concerned (on one level) about one stupid over-wealthy fool paying too much to put his company name on the roof of a stadium his relatives don't even own - but on another level it's perfectly reasonable to disallow a large proportion of the naming deal (regarding Financial Fair Play) as not being an arms-length transaction - any normal application of fiduciary care would come to this conclusion - so idiots like Cook can go roast their nuts on an open fire cos he's got zero chance of persuading UEFA it's an arms length transaction (and if he does succeed that tells you all you need to know about UEFA's sincerity in this regard) - then again he's a buffoon at the best of times. Oh maybe I should tag his name in this reply so he can come and make an even bigger fool of himself.
 
I have no problems with what City are doing; they don't have a global fanbase to draw on (the way United, LFC, Bayern, Barca, Real, Juve and the 2 Milans do) so how else can they ever hope to win anything?

The mega clubs were first to market when the time for establishing massive wealth from fanbase was ripe, so like someone now trying to muscle in on the market shares of Coca Cola or Pepsi, it's impossible without phenomenal financial backing. So, that which is City's only route to ever lifting the European Cup remains our only route also.

"Financial fair play", as others have asserted on this thread, means "fair play" only for the established elite. Which is intrinsically unfair to lesser clubs like Everton. True fair play would see:

(1) Gate receipts always split 50-50 for all games - what? United don't like that? But without an opposition coming to Old Trafford every other week, there's be no game at all.

(2) Title-winning sides limited in new signings made at the end of the season (eg. one or even none).

(3) Bottom-up prize money; instead of making the rich richer, the team that comes top should receive the smallest amount of prize money and the team coming last the most (a consolation for being dumped out of the top flight).

(4) Goal-line technology. Who isn't sick of seeing referees show preferential treatment to the established elite?

These are just some measures that I can think of that would restore parity and end the boredom of seeing Refcheatster United winning the league almost every year.
 
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I have no problems with what City are doing; they don't have a global fanbase to draw on (the way United, LFC, Bayern, Barca, Real, Juve and the 2 Milans do) so how else can they ever hope to win anything?

The mega clubs were first to market when the time for establishing massive wealth from fanbase was ripe, so like someone now trying to muscle in on the market shares of Coca Cola or Pepsi, it's impossible without phenomenal financial backing. So, that which is City's only route to ever lifting the European Cup remains our only route also.

"Financial fair play", as others have asserted on this thread, means "fair play" only for the established elite. Which is intrinsically unfair to lesser clubs like Everton. True fair play would see:

(1) Gate receipts always split 50-50 for all games - what? United don't like that? But without an opposition coming to Old Trafford every other week, there's be no game at all.

(2) Title-winning sides limited in new signings made at the end of the season (eg. one or even none).

(3) Bottom-up prize money; instead of making the rich richer, the team that comes top should receive the smallest amount of prize money and the team coming last the most (a consolation for being dumped out of the top flight).

(4) Goal-line technology. Who isn't sick of seeing referees show preferential treatment to the established elite?

These are just some measures that I can think of that would restore parity and end the boredom of seeing Refcheatster United winning the league almost every year.
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I would slash suggestions 2 and 3 and rather ask to implement a salary cap in that case as it's worked for other leagues/sporting franchises.

You mention early marketing as a weighty reason for the bigger clubs' now lofty positions and while I could agree in point, you'd also have to take into account that there is a much wider market available now, more revenue streams and sponsor deals to be made. This is one of the most solid arguments for the anti-board groups right now, the failure to increase revenue from deals in marketing. With Landon Donovan and Tim Howard we had two of the biggest football players in the US, a widely untapped market, to further our fanbase. From what I can see, not much has/was done to gain an increase.
Tim Cahill is a legend down under, milk it. The Chang sponsorship and ties to China/Asia could be furthered as its the world's fastest growing economy..
 

Just a note spending money on youth has been going on for years, last summer we spent £15k on a 13 year old from the RS academy, we have spent £8k on an 8 year old, its been going on for a while.
 
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