I think overall mate the intention with FFP was good, I do think it put the breaks on things some what. It’s like the economy if the market gets overheated you raise the interest rates, that’s what FFP did, to be fair it redirected funds to better places. Problem is in football, it’s an autocratic system, like those systems it’s creates disparity in application. Uefa at the best of times can be influenced by big clubs and power brokers as ultimately the motivation is to keep the commercial merry go round and make money. The farcical sanctions for the scab clubs in regard to the Super League illustrates this. So as always we have an inequitable system that copperfastens the elite staying elite with FFP. Uefa are scrapping it now and coming up with something new. It will be another white wash, soft saped with good intentions.
Clubs have gotten around FFP at this stage, what Chelsea did was genius, basically created a puppy farm of young footballers and offset ffp by loan fees and eventually selling them they had 50 players on loan at one stage. Barcelona, hoovered up talent, sold it and stuck in small buy back agreements to manage costs, of late clubs have just swapped players - meaning no transfer fees appear on the books, then sell them on and make a profit. It’s a busted flush now.
FFP doesn’t concern us unless we get into Europe, we are subject to PL rules, they aren’t all that different really.
As for us and our summer window, it’s pretty simple either Moshiri funds additional losses or he doesn’t or else we sell a player for big money, though they are the ones you generally want to keep.
