On this note specifically, the EFL let down those clubs horribly. There were viable bids in place to save those clubs that were not allwoed to take place.
It seems having an ex tennis player as the head of the EFL is maybe not the best thing for it.
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Man City banned from Champion's League for 2 years (UP: Ban lifted, fined €10m)
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On this note specifically, the EFL let down those clubs horribly. There were viable bids in place to save those clubs that were not allwoed to take place.
It seems having an ex tennis player as the head of the EFL is maybe not the best thing for it.
I have beef with the EFL on a personal level because it is horrible at highlighting the best games in each league - this week, when Leeds/Brentford happened, the EFL sent us Americans Swansea/QPR as the only game to watch from that day.
Which is to say that I'm not surprised that an organization that can't get something as simple as "send our international fans live footage of a key game in one of the most competitive leagues in the world" right, I'm not surprised to find that they also can't get it right when vetting and approving owners who can save local clubs that are in financial trouble.
I do note though, that even things like Sheffield Wednesday getting popped for financial violations is only happening because of how lucrative the PL is. Teams are spending themselves into trouble to get there.
The other issue is that if you go straight up and back down, you only get two years of parachute payments, and if you bought a ton of new players to try to make a run at seventeenth or better, you end up in a whole lot of financial trouble. It feels to me like the financial realities of these top football leagues becoming worldwide viewing appointments is changing things in a significant way even beyond inept EFL leadership.
The EFL are a joke. All 3 divisions will be littered with asterisk's by the time the seasons done.
The issues smaller clubs are facing is a symptom of the current money driven state of the game, and it requires action - not being left to rot because the elite don't care. The idea of using the death of community clubs like Bury to justify even more exclusiveness and isolation at the top is disgusting.
The issues smaller clubs are facing is a symptom of the current money driven state of the game, and it requires action - not being left to rot because the elite don't care. The idea of using the death of community clubs like Bury to justify even more exclusiveness and isolation at the top is disgusting.
I'm not sure who picks what games go where. All of the gamer have cameras and production on (it's literally what i do for a living in the building im in right now lol).
You read my post and understood the complete opposite of what I was saying. I blame myself. I agree with you, winning the national league or champions league is not everything. But winning those matters more than a new money cup with zero prestige for the super rich clubs. I agree with you and somehow managed to anger you with that. Sorry for that.
Not sure why I bother, but that "tradition" is now. I'm sure all the chinese fans the european teams play for will instantly be all over the new money cup, but till than we gotta wait.
100% agreed, but I think that the ownership of big clubs really don't give a shit about Bury even though they could have saved that club if they really wanted to. I think the PL should set aside a percentage of money from their new TV deals all over the globe specifically to save clubs in danger of going into administration.
I don't think they'll do anything of the sort, though, because I think they see a chance to get an exclusive pot of money available only to them because of their positions.
In conclusion, sorry, but American ideas are ruining shit again in the rest of the world, this time in sport(s). :(
No apology necessary. It's an emotive subject for people. As a fan of a non-Premier League team I'm probably far too over sensitive about it.
Fan of a third league team. Tell me about it. I'm counting the subleagues as national leagues.
Yeah, Grant has since reached out to some of his sources who backed what you said. It does not affect the women's team.
They will defiantly appeal it, which will reduce it (once that money hits certain accounts).
But Fuck City!
But Fuck City!
He'll follow Pep to Barcelona if this were to go through. They desperately need a trainer and a second big brain on the field.Wonder where all the talent is gonna go
the prodigal son returns
Hmm..
www.independent.co.uk
Man City facing Premier League points penalty after being banned from Champions League
Exclusive: The defending champions have been given the unprecedented sanction of a two-year ban from the Champions League and €30m fine after ‘serious breaches’ of Uefa Financial Fair Play rules
www.independent.co.uk
What are we supposed to do? Stop supporting our clubs because UEFA/FIFA/City etc. are corrupt?
If enough people voiced their opinions to their clubs, they would have to do something. I dunno I just find it depressing that everyone is so overtly cynical and yet no one thinks anything is gonna change.
We think they won't really face that punishment becase they will sue the shit out of anyone and everyone and have th emoney to do it for a decade. Something they have famously said they are happy to do.
Don't expect anything from football fans.
The biggest star is a rapist and tax evader.
Meanwhile the whistleblower responsible for this rots in a Portuguese prison.
What we need is the leaked e-mails for how FFP was constructed to specifically thwart us. Then release them and see the ****s in court for damages - it'll tear football a new arsehole. Can't see it happening though, we seem naïve at these games with UEFA.
repost from a fansite lol
for what? Spending money to compete lol!
the stupid rules only came into play because the old guard clubs were crying other clubs were spending money to compete with them.
them same clubs didn't care when they were breaking transfer records and buying up all the best players while making their rivals weaker. If it weren't for rich owners investing in their clubs the EPL would have been a boring one horse race And nobody would care about PSG and Monico competing.
how would the premier league be better if Chelsea and city had zero investment? the glazers would have spent even less money In united after the takeover and the league would have become stale.
FFP has shown just how bent ufea and fifa really are.
people upset they broke FFP are forgetting the rules only came about because clubs like United were crying in the first place. United have spent more than city in the last 5 years and are a joke.
Your second paragraph should say "spending sugar daddies money".
How football became broken beyond repair
The game is going through an unprecedented period of financial and competitive imbalance. Miguel Delaney investigates how we got here and – crucially – whether the dominance of the mega-rich is here to stay
www.independent.co.uk
Where did the money United spent come from?
Also funny that even when United literally have nothing to do with whats happened, they still get brought up.
Screw that over-hyped over-paid Raheem Sterling. He left Liverpool on bad terms because they wouldn't pay him 3x what he was worth, and now his former club are the European champions and 22 points clear, and City may be exiled.
they have everything to do with it. You think FFP just randomly came about? Old guard clubs lobbying for it made it happen. Where was David gills next job again?
It came in cuz of clubs like Portsmouth spending shit loads and then failing miserably
So surely Liverpool, Arsenal, Madrid, Barca also had shit to do with it too and yet its only United that get a shout out.
The rules have been in place for nearly a decade and everyone else seems to be able to adhere to them or flout them without being outright twats about it. City demonstrably worked to make it look like nothing was happening and lied when asked about it previously.
Yep. Fuck City.
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The club's inhouse lawyer Simon Cliff wrote in one of the published emails that Mubarak had told Gianni Infantino, then Uefa's general secretary, that he would not accept a financial sanction for exceeding the permitted €45m loss in 2012 and 2013, and said: "He would rather spend 30 million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue [Uefa] for the next 10 years."
In 2014, the IC determined that City had a deficit of €180m over that two year period, vastly in excess of the €45m permitted, and in May that year agreed a settlement which some at Uefa believed was too lenient. A day before that, the former chair of the IC, Jean-Luc Dehaene, a distinguished former prime minister of Belgium and senior European Union politician, died aged 73, survived by his wife of 49 years and their four children. Spiegel quoted Cliff's reaction to this news in an internal email, referring to the membership of the IC: "1 down, 6 to go."
I wouldnt call him a fraud, id like to see what he does with a not-so rich club though.
Infantino is a corrupt fuck so I remain unconvinced this will stick.
I've often thought Man City are probably even more in the red with regards to wages, must be some clever/dodgy accounting there.
Those leaked email snippets are shocking, the death of the UEFA official, no soul, pure scum.
I've often thought Man City are probably even more in the red with regards to wages, must be some clever/dodgy accounting there.
Those leaked email snippets are shocking, the death of the UEFA official, no soul, pure scum.
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