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Financial Fair Play investigation

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catcherintherye said:
Which essentially means they wont go beyond where they are now mate.

You can only compound the system for so long. Eventually you keep losing your best players, and are unable to buy better ones.
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Yes - they would need to continually get their recruitment to include managerial ones spot on. That’s not sustainable particularly when your scouting staff may also be being picked off.

PL history is replete with decently run teams who have changed their approach to get into the top 6 resulting in relegation.
 
Llyrap said:
Yes - they would need to continually get their recruitment to include managerial ones spot on. That’s not sustainable particularly when your scouting staff may also be being picked off.

PL history is replete with decently run teams who have changed their approach to get into the top 6 resulting in relegation.
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Yes. And the rules contribute to this in my view.
 
It does help the PL to have “selling clubs”. Clubs that are not sustainable through gate or commercial revenue, but almost entirely by profit from player sales, whether that be via a strong academy or excellent recruitment knowing the end game is to upsell. Very few clubs are actually sustainable through commercial income. But that model takes a bashing if the market drops (Covid).

Normal selling clubs can ride it out. Their slow but steady growth and improvement gets stunted for a couple of years, but they survive easily. Oddly they got to keep players for an extra season that normally would have moved upwards. Our failing is we tried to be a buying club but only achieved the results of a dying disorganised mess of a club, and then had to quickly try and sell our way out of it, Covid then hit etc etc.

Thinking overnight, the clubs continued shock and horror over our referral leads me to think we may have voluntarily approached the PL way way way before Covid, indicating that we were heading for a future breach over the coming 1 or 2 accounting periods. Proactive and honest as the club keep saying. Part of the mutually agreed plan would have been a period of sell to buy, cost cutting etc etc. to at least minimise the breach, and negate any on-field advantage we would have gained from the breach. Before we could really finish the escape, Covid hit, DCL turned into Andy Carroll, Iceland became the supermarket you couldn’t mention, Usmanov had to withdraw etc. Literally none of that could have been foreseen when we initially held our hand up and proposed a way out.

It seems the only possible way they accepted we had no case to answer last year, despite the fanciful Covid loss calcs and seemingly being miles over in the raw numbers. We were clearly trying to sort the mess out but our main escape routes were all cut off and these mitigations must have been accepted previously. If that’s all true, then the club would be right, it is a surprise it’s kicked off now when we are in a better (but still embarrassingly awful) place and the trajectory is actually moving in the right direction. Presumably pressure from other clubs, upset about the compassion we have been shown, coupled with the need to show the PL have their house in order have forced their hand.
 
Llyrap said:
If you think about it if Saudi Newcastle and Man City (unlimited money) didn’t have the those rules imposed on them the gap would be wider. Whilst the rules prevent challengers/disruptors it actually prevents the market becoming even more distorted.

Have to remember as well that we were not that far behind Tottenham not so long ago. Some good recruitment and a mangerial
Appointment has resulted in a huge gap developing.

The issue for Brighton is going to be continuing to grow whilst their best talent is continually being cherry picked.
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Hence that is why their recruitment is so good, they are constantly 2 steps ahead all the time as it's the only way they can keep up. They already have replacements for the main talents waiting to come through, take Mac Allister, they have another Argentine player Facundo Buonanotte waiting to take his place. Same with Caicedo, they have a Swedish youngster Yasin Ayari. It means when they sell that money is going back in the bank or towards the next youngster.
 
hirons11 said:
Just because it would be worse if the rule were not in place doesn’t mean those that are are still fit for purpose.
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Not disagreeing that there must be a better way of doing it (wage cap) but without it it could be worse.

They could have a upper wage cap set as 70 percent of the turnover of the biggest team in the league.

A Team wage Cap on wages to turnover of each team.

Finally a facility for any challenger/disruptor team to escape their Team wage cap by depositing sufficient funds in escrow to meet their liabilities over a 3 year period.

If the league was serious about competition they’d also revisit the issue of distribution of broadcasting a commercial revenue.
 

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