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It actually makes sense on the proposal as clubs like Villa could pass FSR in the PL but fail with UEFA. I know we’ve become conditioned to our situation but to ambitious clubs that want to reinvest profits in squads are limited by commercial revenues sometimes as they grow

But also for some clubs in the EFL it’s provided short term cash flow when needed.

If it’s permissible and at fair market value don’t really see the issue. Our stadium is owned by a different entity right ? How much do we pay that entity to use it

And if we didn’t have goal bonuses etc it’d be even less. But it wasn’t

Our wage bill is now 14th I think

It’s a bollocks argument as they would have known their position and that’s the point of FFP. They might have some sympathy but given how much they spent and how many players they brought in everyone knew they were pushing it

Been said but the City case is complex - goes back a long way, before FFP. Also a lot of the evidence was stolen in a hack / breach, so possibly impermissible - and not even sure if it’s all real. Of course it has given them the platform to get to where they are today, and apparently within...

Does the benefit of selling Caicedo & Alexis only last so long though, so unless we spend a bit more ‘now’ that benefit rolls off down the line

make the fines a bit bigger and then distribute them to the compliant clubs would be an interesting scenario