The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
Go Mourinho for putting the boot in to FFP. Let's crack this mother and move directly to signing Neymar. 
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Dymak
Player Valuation: £40m
Our fans propensity to disbelieve any sort of good news, and in some cases go out of their way to make up reasons why the club would somehow be unable to take advantage of legitimate and available mechanisms of investment.
Like claiming we would somehow be punished 10 times harder than anyone else on the grounds of being Everton. Or the claims that we are skint and won’t be able to do much business this summer, when our de facto owner is wealthier than Roman Abramovich.
It’s an extension of the 'Everton That' mentality; a term that is being used to describe the conscious belief that the very nature of Everton is that of failure.
Interestingly yet disturbingly, I believe plans are a foot to modernise FFP by UEFA, in some of the draft proposals a “super tax“ is being suggested for rich owners who want to invest beyond the newly devised thresholds. If it comes to pass, it’s finally gone public, that football is dead as a sport, cash is king and we’re just lemmings, pumping the meter for a food pellet.
Uefa is zero self awareness shocker.
It needs changing
Well said mate. Agree totally.
TheSecondComing
Player Valuation: £35m
Two ways to look at this, the one you point out.
Or DBB was too busy Organising bingo with Bill and forgot to do it.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I'm sure they will have some wacky ideas. The question though has to go beyond- what do UEFA want to what can be justified in an impartial court.
I also don't agree with the final point. We can continue to spend decent money, and at the very least there is now more flexibility than 1 week ago (at the most cautious conclusion). Likewise we have a wealthy owner, so maybe he will just pay a fine and spend massively? Who knows?
I've got no idea what UEFA will do. It's another stupid idea. In a world where racism, sexism, homophobia get minimal fines, you are going to give far larger fines to a club who commit the crime of spending money, within the game of football? However they have devised a ridiculous system, full of not only flaws, but inherently and structurally wrong. That takes some doing if you have 5 years to devise something.
This ought to be the question UEFA ask, you spent 5 years and copious amounts of money devising a system that doesn't stack up in court legally, has made the game more unequal, has led to more teams going out of business and created far more of the existing problems it sought to solve. That takes some doing. It would almost be hard to do that if you tried.
When you're dealing with an organisation who is capable of doing that, anything is possible I suppose.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I think this is very very telling to me. Firstly Newcastle, who we believe are in the midst of a takeover ready to be announced 2 months ago and splash loads of money want FFP further tightened. Interesting Wolves as well who we were told would spend massive money. Then Everton not being on the list, is fascinating. If you were being objective, you would say it was quite strong evidence Everton were happy for City to be let off, and probably quite keen to spend heavily.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Wolves will be happy with FFP as they benefit more from Mendes giving them players rather than needing to throw money around.
Im at the stage where im not arsed anymore about punishment - these last few seasons have been more turd than anything UEFA could throw at us.
Spend whats needed, take a fine & if UEFA push us too harshly take FFP to the courts and get it squashed - would love EFC to go down in history as the club to get it ended.
Probably more down to all the false dawns we seem to go through mate.
FFP isn't fit for purpose really. I agree with Mourhinio if Man City have done nothing wrong why have they still been fined?
I'm no expert on the subject, but the whole thing seems a bit cak. How can it be OK for Man Utds owners to borrow hundreds of millions of pounds against future earnings leaving one of the biggest clubs in the world in enormous debt, yet Man City has no debt what so ever, but they are the bad guys?
I'm no expert on the subject, but the whole thing seems a bit cak. How can it be OK for Man Utds owners to borrow hundreds of millions of pounds against future earnings leaving one of the biggest clubs in the world in enormous debt, yet Man City has no debt what so ever, but they are the bad guys?
chazzle_dazzle
Player Valuation: £35m
They have been fined for not cooperating with Uefa's investigation... nothing to do with the allegations of financial doping. They where within their right to do this, specially when Uefa based a lot of their case on a hack.
Huge difference, and I presume Jose knows this.
Its like being arrested for murder, and resisting arrest... to be cleared for the murder but still guilty for resisting arrest.
GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
No other business owner in the World is restricted in how much they can invest in their business to improve it, except for football clubs in Europe.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
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