In light of what’s just happened to Everton FFP is once again a hot topic, and I just wanted to highlight some clear facts a lot of people are missing that show how the people who run football are hypocritical and are an absolute joke when it comes to running their own rules

FFP was first established in 2009 for the sole purpose to prevent professional football clubs spending more than they earn in the pursuit of success, and in doing so not getting into financial problems which might threaten their long-term survival. - this was implemented after the events that happened to Leeds where we almost lost them as a club. This purpose quickly changed, forgetting about the small clubs being abused and focused towards small clubs becoming successful by closing the financial gap between them and the big super teams. We’ve already seen from the creation of the super league that the big teams feel that they are threatened and want maintain their status at all cost, this is why the rules were adapted post 2012

You might say that a team like Man City shouldn’t be able increase their ability to spend because of their owners. But with the creation of the premier league and it’s large injection of money for the big teams, it’s seem that they made it impossible to get to the same level as them without money

Then their is the simple fact that man city have never spent more than the likes of Man Utd, Real Madrid and Barcelona. They’ve simply closed the gap. People hate them for their success, but it’s not cause of money, their owners could take over man utd tomorrow without injecting money and turn them back into world beaters. They are the kind of owners everyone wants, smart owners who aren’t greedy, who don’t take money out

I understand that the rules are the rules, but maybe the rules are wrong and designed to keep the big clubs fat and to prevent to competition. If we can’t take the money away from the big clubs then how else do we challenge them besides the way man city have done?

  • PerfectlySculptedToe@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Regardless as to the reasons “why” FFP was brought in, the reality is now Everton have a 10 point deduction for spending £600m less than other clubs did in the same time. Yes, that’s because of the respective incomes of the clubs, but that doesn’t mean it’s fair.

    The Man United’s of the league can spend triple, quadruple, quintuple what Everton spent, and still have room to spare. All that does is increase the already chasmic size gap between the Sky 6 and the rest of the league. In the last 10 seasons, the Sky 6 have taken 53/60 of the top 6 spots. Just 7 times has a club outside that group got into the top 6. That means they get more money, so they have more to spend, so they stay in that top 6, so they get more money, so they get more to spend…

    Something needs to be in place to avoid a Leeds situation, but this isn’t it. This isn’t fair.