CroJack
Key Player
"I dislike the underhand nature of what City executives are alleged to have done in their attempt to circumvent Financial Fair Play rules. I love the beauty of the football that the team play but I am under no illusions about the sinister cynicism of some of those who run the club. I dislike the arrogant ‘we do what we want’ attitude that the club are said to have espoused when it came to disguising their income streams.
The problem is, I dislike FFP even more. If the allegations published in Der Spiegel last week are correct, City have cheated by ignoring FFP. But then the clubs that waved FFP through in the first place cheated by introducing it. They gave themselves an unfair advantage. The summit of modern football is a world where no one is innocent.
Let’s be honest about FFP: it is a system imposed by an oligarchy, designed to restore the rule of that oligarchy and to make sure that oligarchy is never, ever breached by outsiders again. It promotes football as a cartel, not as a meritocracy. In an irony that UEFA may finally be beginning to grasp, FFP is laying the foundations for the formation of the long-dreaded European Super League."
Read more:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...lad-way-beat-bent-system.html#article-6375687
The problem is, I dislike FFP even more. If the allegations published in Der Spiegel last week are correct, City have cheated by ignoring FFP. But then the clubs that waved FFP through in the first place cheated by introducing it. They gave themselves an unfair advantage. The summit of modern football is a world where no one is innocent.
Let’s be honest about FFP: it is a system imposed by an oligarchy, designed to restore the rule of that oligarchy and to make sure that oligarchy is never, ever breached by outsiders again. It promotes football as a cartel, not as a meritocracy. In an irony that UEFA may finally be beginning to grasp, FFP is laying the foundations for the formation of the long-dreaded European Super League."
Read more:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...lad-way-beat-bent-system.html#article-6375687
