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    Re: Oliver Holt Archived Message

    Posted by Stranded Hatter on 16/2/2020, 3:46 pm, in reply to "Re: Oliver Holt"

    Lets say for the sake of argument that it is a cartel to keep smaller clubs out, that still doesn’t give City the right to secretly break those rules. If they had been doing it openly and saying we believe these rules are wrong then they might have had a leg to stand on but they didn’t. As it is they are part of the elite that they claim to rail against, for one they were at the forefront of arguing that they deserve a bigger slice of the Premier League TV money, a pie that was already excluding the vast majority of football clubs in this country. This argument that they were standing up for the little guy in secret is more pathetic than their disregard for the rules in and of itself. They weren’t fighting to stop a cartel they just wanted to be part of one. City are corrupt and it’s important that they are seen as such.

    You ask how fair is that (with regards to Arsenal and United’a bigger base to build from) but how fair is it that City (and Chelsea before them) are allowed to spend hundreds of millions of pounds of oil money to buy their way to the top of the pile? You say United and Arsenal built their base before FFP and so that makes FFP unfair but that’s just an argument to change nothing. It isn’t fair under new rules that these clubs have prior success and clout so therefore we should change nothing. As it is under FFP these clubs aren’t doing as well as other “smaller” clubs who are also sticking to the rules.


    That said FFP has to be just the first step along the way towards fixing the mess that is football finances. Get the over spending and obscene debt generation under control and then following that there needs to be a concerted effort towards spreading some of the money that is sloshing alone at the top elsewhere in the game. Things like salary caps, revenue sharing, and an actual flow of money from the top in to the grassroots (not just into these clubs own academies) are needed in conjunction with FFP. On its own FFP will not solve the problems of financial doping but that does not mean that it’s some kind of cartel of Europe’s elite desperate to keep new money clubs out. While I don’t doubt these clubs want their own european super league FFP isn’t how they achieve that particular closed shop. This argument has only come out now that clubs breaking the rules have been found out.

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