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I can see that element being watered down in the future, that is actually too much even for those idiots.

I don’t expect it to change sadly, I believe Palace are having internal issues so a lot of politicking going on where they are concerned.

Actually, that’s where it becomes interesting because we know the league is essentially a cartel, and usually cartels will behave in the manner the league is, ie lack of competition; price fixing etc. And nobody challenges it because they all benefits from it as do cartel members. Before we came along everyone was absolutely content with the status quo. If I’m palace I know I can never compete with City so I’m just happy to sit back and enjoy the massive revenue coming in for doing rather little. The bottom line is; nobody wants to watch palace vs Brighton and everyone wants to watch Liverpool vs City and it’s these factors which give the big clubs the leverage to tilt the rules in their favour.

Of course it is, if you look at the owners of the clubs they are the most ardent capitalist in the world, but they adopt socialist structures such as parachute payments and solidarity payments it’s all rather bizarre but at its core as you mention is absolute self interest. Again, what FFP is when you strip it back is cost control and the more you control your cost the more profit you make, sadly for the owners they are also extremely egotistical so these rules create a brake and help them all control costs. Ultimately they all want to make money.

Of course he is, the big clubs are the ones pulling the strings? Why? Because that’s the deal with the devil and the cost of the more even distribution of funds. You can be absolutely certain the those cunts talk about how much money real and Barca make from tv and how they deserve more? They will also crow how much more engagement they get and how they know what’s best as they have the most revenue. It’s the nature of the beast.

Why would they be fucked on FFP? The big 6 are smart enough to know (FFP is the creation of the big clubs btw) that FFP is fantastic for them. Infact it’s fantastic anyone who isn’t ambitious and is happy to exist, it limits competition throughout the whole pyramid so if your backwards looking either by choice or circumstance FFP is great, your costs are limited and your competition can’t just outspend you so your market position is protected. when thinking about these financial rules throw away the “fan” hat and put on the business one. Everything then becomes crystal clear.

Yes sir, actually the entire thing is just one big funnel to the top and nobody else is allowed to join the table, Sheik Mansour was the last person allowed to board that train.

Guys, please understand the PL shareholders are the club, masters is an employee of the PL, he does as he’s commanded by his masters. If he happens to leave nothing will change he has no real power.

This is pretty much where I am. Ultimately the other clubs are also pushing to increase revenue which is why during the Ashley years the a chasm opened between us and the big 6. So in order to progress we have to close the gap which is difficult because we are limited by FFP. We are not allowed to invest into the business because of the rules I know it’s repeated a lot but I truly can’t get over this. So basically we are left hoping for miracles, or we have to become the best traders in football to open up headroom, so when we sell a Bruno we need to find two more.

And this is the key point I’ve been driving at, we are about way off budget wise and in the league money wins every time, it’s why I’ve been wondering how they will square that circle

Btw, we’ve had great revenue growth since the takeover but over the next few years I expect them to slow a lot.

I know we all like Amanda and dislike Bruce but I imagine he will be on the phone to his lawyers given her comments about him

It’s likely the period when they were given 8 year contracts and stretching out the amortisation.

They only lost 90m quite remarkable lol.

Absolutely, having 4/5 wingers being right footed isn’t sensible.

We have been monitoring for 3 years like the good old days

Any source for that?

Las Vegas A’s

Your bang on, I was walking around the central business district here in SG yesterday lunch time thinking damn, I’m surrounded by rich people really makes a mockery of the UK where in most places you think, damn why is everyone so poor.

Cracking post thank you for taking the time. Sign me up for the summer transfer rumours thread

Stif man, reality check nobody is going to watch a league featuring us Villa and Everton. Of all the scenarios people come a breakaway domestic league is the most fanciful.

This also isn’t going to happen, the super league is dead in this country, the fan revolt from a breakaway of the premier league would make the super league one look like a toddlers tantrum before nap time.

They can’t own the league though, well they can be in order to do so they would have to own all of the clubs in the league and that just isn’t going to happen.

Love it thanks for sharing. So given the above, what would you expect to see happen in the summer in terms of sales and purchase? What kind of net spend would you project given the very limited information at hand.

From what you’ve seen how much of a FFP hole are we in?