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UEFA adopts new regulations to replace financial fair play https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220407-uefa-adopts-new-regulations-to-replace-financial-fair-play-1 Nyon (Switzerland) (AFP) – UEFA on Thursday approved new licensing and "sustainability" regulations to replace its existing Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, allowing European clubs to make bigger losses than before while bringing in caps on spending on wages and transfers. As expected, European football's governing body decided to overhaul the FFP rules that were introduced in 2010 in order to reduce spiralling club debts across the continent. FFP's limitations had been exposed by the emergence of state-held superpowers like Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, while huge losses incurred by the coronavirus pandemic left poorer clubs with little room for manoeuvre. "The biggest innovation will be the introduction of a squad cost rule to bring better cost control in relation to player wages and transfer costs," UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin announced following a meeting of the body's executive committee. UEFA will now allow clubs to report losses of 60 million euros ($65.5m) over three years rather than 30 million euros previously, and the permitted figure will even reach 90 million euros for a club "in good financial health". However, that relaxation of the rules is combined with the new ceilings on wage spending. There was never any possibility of bringing in a specific salary cap like in North American sports because UEFA has 55 member countries and must contend with European Union and national labour and competition laws. Yet under UEFA's new regulations clubs will be forced to limit spending on player and staff wages, transfers and agents fees to 70 percent of total revenues by 2025/26. The ceiling will drop as current contracts expire: 90 percent of club income in 2023/24, followed by 80 percent the season after and then 70 percent. "Before the pandemic, the average ratio was under 70 percent," said Andrea Traverso, UEFA's director of financial sustainability. Then the health crisis led to losses over two seasons of about seven billion euros, causing that ratio to rise. Financial and sporting penalties Ceferin said breaches of the new rules "will result in predefined financial penalties and sporting measures". The size of the fines will depend on the extent to which clubs have crossed the threshold, with that money then redistributed among the well-behaved -- in line with the idea of a "luxury tax" championed in the past by Ceferin. Serious or repeated breaches will lead to sporting punishments, with Traverso saying these could range from bans on using certain players and limits on squad sizes, to points deductions in the new-look Champions League group phase to be introduced from 2024. He added that discussions are ongoing about the possibility of teams being demoted from one European competition to another, for example from the Champions League to the Europa League. The fate of FFP in its existing guise was sealed when Manchester City successfully appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in 2020 to have a two-year ban from European competition overturned. Abu Dhabi-owned City had been accused of deliberately inflating the value of income from Emirati sponsors Etisalat and Etihad Airways to meet FFP regulations. State-owned clubs such as City and Qatar-backed PSG may still find themselves in a position to spend far more than their rivals, despite the new 70 percent rule. Meanwhile, traditional giants like Barcelona and Juventus -- two of the main backers of the failed European Super League project -- could see their ambitions still restricted by the need to reduce debts. The new regulations come in at a time when elite-level football is dominated by a smaller and more select group of clubs than ever, but Traverso said improving competitive balance required more than just financial measures. Now that UEFA has announced its new budgetary rules after months of consultations, he said the body was "going to open a new chapter and move on to other measures".

We need to see if the books are wiped clean post sale. Also, for FFP purposes, a loss is only one that occurs in a 12 month fiscal year. So even if over the long run you take a loss on a player (say buy for £60m, sell for £40m 2 years later, it depends on the infows and outflows for the fiscal year you sold him to determine if is it an FFP-relevant loss. Finally, when I say we ' shit away £600m plus ' since 2015 summer winner, that is NOT at all necessarily FFP relevant (although it certainly could be when you look at multiple windows (like the FFP 3 year rolling average) and then assume we could have saved outflows or made more on inflows). Also that £600m (it actually may well be more) down the shitter is not just simple sales and buys, but also mis-timed sales, shit buys, mis-timed buys, shit sales, botched contractual management, etc etc. The formulae I use are also NOT just raw numbers, but take into account replacement cost, expected and actual utility valuations, etc.

Eintracht Frankfurt 1 66' 1 Barcelona Torres

Eintracht Frankfurt 1 61' 0 Barcelona

Bowen 1 nil and West Ham is down to 10 men on a shit call

2021-22 UEFA Europa League, Quarterfinals Eintracht Frankfurt Barcelona http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2022/europa-league-eintracht-frankfurt-vs-barcelona-s1/ https://www.totalsportek.com/football/europa-league/eintracht-frankfurt-vs-barcelona/

2021-22 UEFA Europa League, Quarterfinals West Ham United Lyon http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2022/europa-league-west-ham-united-vs-olympique-lyonnais-s2/ https://www.totalsportek.com/football/europa-league/west-ham-vs-lyon/

Pool loses out on a possible new Sane type Abdul Fatawu Issahaku: Teenage Ghana winger joins Sporting Lisbon https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61023569 Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon have signed rising Ghana star Abdul Fatawu Issahaku from Steadfast FC. The 18-year-old winger, who has won eight international caps, has signed a five-year contract and has a release clause of 60 million euros in his deal. Issahaku featured in all three of Ghana's games at this year's Africa Cup of Nations, and both legs of last month's 2022 World Cup play-off against Nigeria which the Black Stars won on away goals. "I'm very happy to be here, it's fantastic," he told Sporting TV. "There are many differences between the football I was playing and Sporting. It will make me grow more." Issahaku has never played club football outside his homeland, but has been tipped for a bright future after being named player of the tournament at the Under-20 Nations Cup in 2021. "The Ghanaians believe in me and I had opportunities very early on," he added, "They made my dream possible and without that I don't think I would be here." The terms of the deal taking Issahaku from Tamale-based Steadfast FC, a club in Ghana's second tier, to Sporting Lisbon are undisclosed.

Bremer Torino CB watch Pool move for him they are not happy with Ibrahima Konaté (I was surprised when they bought him)

Josko Gvardiol too https://techoreels.com/clip/s1.html

Christopher Nkunku starts

Christopher Nkunku starts

2021-22 UEFA Europa League, Quarterfinals RB Leipzig Atalanta http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2022/europa-league-rb-leipzig-vs-atalanta-s1/ https://www.totalsportek.com/atalanta15/

another good CB off the board

Asked if he was angry with Christensen, an amused Sarri replied: ‘No, not at all. You know very well that on the match day Christensen has always stomach ache. ‘I don’t know the reason but I think he’s very nervous and he had to go to the toilet so I don’t know what to say.’

fuck this assclown downing tools motherfucker I fucking detest him insane that we shit away £180m for his sorry arse

going into the Citeh game, he had 7 goals and 2 assists in his last 8 games

I would LOVE that just for the lulz from arse fanbois reactions 🤣

2 key plays fucked us Mendy's insanity and asshole Rom missing that absolute sitter

and Benz is not a cunt like CR7 he matured a lot since his brat days I have a hard time hating him or Lewa just wonderful centre forwards, classic all-time great number 9's

yes, even RM it isn't like them winning CL again matters in the long run they are always going to be the biggest of the big boy clubs would so much rather they win it than Pool or Citeh I fucking hate Bayern too lol ffs, what a nightmare quarterfinals draw

better question how much did Benz aid CR7 all those years? Benz utterly sublimated his game for him for ages

Citeh and Pool are streets ahead of all other clubs