Couldn't be bothered to read your thesis but I doubt Chelsea will get into trouble beyond some FFP violations.
We haven’t violated FFP.
And on City… the big test will be whether this actually leads to anything, and, also, legitimate concerns about the fairness and motivations of any investigations.
If they did it, is it going to get overturned and shifted into some sort of 20m euro fine instead again?
And the obvious allowances of bias to anything that protects the two or three traditional powers on the league always astonished me. Why would an Arsenal member be allowed on the commission at all?
Finally, are they going to address the fact that FFP, at its core, violates fair, competitive business practices?
You can spend money … but only if you already have money, and a certain amount of fans already… and so on. I’m trying to imagine what this would look like in America if, say, the Dallas Cowboys were allowed a larger salary cap than other teams due to their massive fanbase.
It’s bad enough that the Ravens backup WB almost made the pro bowl simply due to fan voting. To have stuff like that affect actual team construction is weird.
That’s not “fair”. It is simply a crooked way of trying to ensure that only particular teams stay at the top by design.
Either allow people who purchase a business to compete fairly by investing however much money they are willing to risk… or have an actual “fair” cap where all teams are limited to the same amount.
FFP, as it’s structured, would violate American law, and may, if tested, violate certain international laws related to fair business practices.
