by Remember Colo » Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:26 pm
Don Sholeone wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:00 pm
Remember Colo wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:16 pm
They need to overhaul the whole system, and decide what they actually want its purpose to be. Are they trying to save overspending owners from themselves? Or encourage some sort of parity among clubs/leagues? In trying to do both they've instead achieved neither. Oh, and then actually make it enforceable!
The purpose has and always will be brand protection. Imagine a competition without Man Utd, Chelsea, Juventus, Real Madrid, Barca, Bayern etc. teams like man city and the rise of other footballing superpowers can knock these teams off their james perches, clubs that will be less attractive globally than the aforementioned clubs. It would hurt tv deals and sponsorship because the audience has the potential to dip. These clubs are far too popular and well established as the elite for it all to be risked by allowing the rise of new teams.
That's been the outcome, but nobody is nor was going to outspend those clubs, with or without FFP, so nobody can convince me that's why they made the system the way then did. I think they naively thought they would keep the spending of big clubs in check while discouraging other clubs from outspending their means, but the big clubs are way too powerful to actually enforce the rules.
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They need to overhaul the whole system, and decide what they actually want its purpose to be. Are they trying to save overspending owners from themselves? Or encourage some sort of parity among clubs/leagues? In trying to do both they've instead achieved neither. Oh, and then actually make it enforceable!
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The purpose has and always will be brand protection. Imagine a competition without Man Utd, Chelsea, Juventus, Real Madrid, Barca, Bayern etc. teams like man city and the rise of other footballing superpowers can knock these teams off their james perches, clubs that will be less attractive globally than the aforementioned clubs. It would hurt tv deals and sponsorship because the audience has the potential to dip. These clubs are far too popular and well established as the elite for it all to be risked by allowing the rise of new teams.
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That's been the outcome, but nobody is nor was going to outspend those clubs, with or without FFP, so nobody can convince me that's why they made the system the way then did. I think they naively thought they would keep the spending of big clubs in check while discouraging other clubs from outspending their means, but the big clubs are way too powerful to actually enforce the rules.
