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Of course it is, FFP is designed to prevent other clubs progressing. It has nothing to do with fairness or any other such concept. its the cartel protecting itself. and no it won’t, because most people are stupid and fail to grasp the concepts above.

FFP is over a 3 year period so any club breaching would have time to correct.

They can discount a set amount of the sponsorship deal towards the FFP quota. eg. Deal signed in champ ship worth 100m per season. Epl judge fair value to be 10m per season. thus 10m and not 100m would be the value used for FFP purposes.

Any club which isn’t named Manchester City will be worried.

Guys, I can assure you they’ve given up on trying to stop us what we will see moving forward is more obstruction. They aren’t going to reject us from joining the league in the event of any promotion.

Don’t think about the big 6 in sporting terms. Think about them in revenue terms. As the whole takeover saga has demonstrated football is a business not a sport.

It’s possible, stats don’t begin to tell the story tbh.

He’s last for being “progressive” I’m not quite sure how that’s defined. he’s above Coady in duels.

This is the next thing they throw the toys out of the pram at.

Of course not. They are protected by these artificial glass ceilings put in place to protect the big 6.

We already threatened them with legal action over this. It’s very difficult for them to keep doing it indefinitely with such threats over them.

I still can’t find any updates with regards to the restraint of trade sorry I meant sponsorship ban deadline? Any ideas if this has been extended?

I agree, we should definitely look abroad. English tax is too high unfortunately. I just think a lot of the noise coming out of the other teams in the league is just that.

Money talks the loudest. The Saudi’s know this better than anyone.

ASM poses a tactical problem for Howe which he is yet to solve. He and Wilson are our best players, Howe might need to build a system around getting the best out of them.

Hayden and his flaws is the only one we have capable of offering the needed protection. We are bad so playing with such a midfield away against teams who are better than us is asking for it. It’s the same as the Arsenal game. These teams don’t even have to play well to make us look bad.

I’m like a broken record but our terrible centre half’s need protection. They get very little with a two man midfield anyways it only compounds the issue when those two are Shelvey and Wilock.

No defensive screen in central midfield and we really suffer for it.

The Reuben’s might be aware of it for other reasons such as wanting to develop it for student housing etc. I wouldn’t automatically assume it would be bought for the expansion of the stadium.

Lingard. We can’t carry two attacking players defensively sadly.

Can’t believe they aren’t giving us more pictures, easy PR.

This was my initial feeling too. But the more I think about it the more I conclude it’s a very short term stop gap solution to see us safe. Also shouldn’t cost a fortune.

So basically, the sporting integrity has been slowly eroded by money.

I understand and would agree if FFP wasn’t a thing. Unfortunately in order to compete we have to maximise commercial revenue. Those clubs that don’t will be left behind.

This thread is going to get ugly fast if a stadium sponsorship is announced