UEFA Financial Fair Play

[DDA 9,570]

UEFA's Executive Committee unanimously approved a financial fair play concept for the game's well-being in September 2009. The concept has also been supported by the entire football family, with its principal objectives being:

• to introduce more discipline and rationality in club football finances;

• to decrease pressure on salaries and transfer fees and limit inflationary effect;

• to encourage clubs to compete with(in) their revenues;

• to encourage long-term investments in the youth sector and infrastructure;

• to protect the long-term viability of European club football;

• to ensure clubs settle their liabilities on a timely basis.

Financial fair play measures will be implemented over a three-year period, with the break-even assessment covering the financial years ending 2012 and 2013 assessed during 2013/14, and starting with the assessment by the Club Financial Control Panel of all transfer and employee payables in the summer of 2011.

Financial fair play regulations

- http://www.uefa.com/...12_DOWNLOAD.pdf

How will this effect us!?

[zolayes 14,489]

rich pickings for the accountants and lawyers.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

A 'council of Europe' committee has suggested UEFA should prohibit the City-Etihad deal as well as Real Madrid selling their training ground.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1032211/report-highlights-possible-financial-fair-play-circumvention?cc=5739

[Term-X 7,891]

A 'council of Europe' committee has suggested UEFA should prohibit the City-Etihad deal as well as Real Madrid selling their training ground.

http://soccernet.esp...vention?cc=5739

The deal Man-City have with themselves is criminal.

I've been saying that for a while now, really hope they get what's coming to them.

[capriccioso 2,545]

They will punish City, but not Madrid. All UEFA want is to preserve the status quo, they'll never raise a finger against the traditional giants of the game- the big 3 Italian's, the 2 Spanish, Man United, Liverpool and Arsenal, Ajax as well as Bayern Munich. They absolutely loathe upstart clubs like us and City and PSG and Anzhi who come along and threaten to upset the apple cart. They're trying to freeze it so that the 4 current 'sugar daddy' clubs are the only ones who can be a threat, they don't want anyone else with no 'history' to come along and become the greatest force football has ever seen. I'm not sure why they're against it, football will surely be better when money competes with prestige. And its a lot better to have 20 cash rich, history poor clubs competing against the "HUGE 10™" historical European clubs, it adds something new from all the hegemony. How great would it be if Luch-Energiya Vladivostok won the Champions League? A club thats languished in the Russian second division for much of its history, struggling to remain even in the Russian league system because of the tyranny of distance. As a neutral I'd much rather see a club from the Russian-Korean border which has struggled its entire existence to complete a fairytale victory rather than seeing the HUGE 10™win the UEFA Super Glory Hunting Championship ™ all the fucking time.

There is absolutely no romance, no underdog factor with the HUGE 10™. They are just machines, and its them, not us, the noveau riche that are killing off football. All we're after is a bit more competition, they want to lock it in so that until the end of time there will only be around 15 clubs that have ever been the Super Glory Hunting Champions of Europe™.

I can see this in 50 years time, UEFA™ introduces the League of the Best Clubs of All Time ™. Ticket prices only cost 10,000 pounds a head, and the HUGE 10™ will never play in their inferior national leagues anymore.

[Beirut_Blues 306]

So what happens with Chelsea - we're too much in debt to be clear of this financial policy.

[capriccioso 2,545]

It'll come down to how much balls UEFA have got. They're a little afraid of clubs such as us, because we (together with the other 4 sugar daddy clubs) have the financial clout to start up an entirely new league, and its possible the huge 10 will follow us in there. Especially if we can promise restriction free football.

There's a 3 year monitoring period, anyway; as long as we are decreasing our debts, we'll be fine. The real test for this will be when a club that is the darling of the establishment, like Barcelona, fail to comply with the rules. I imagine they'd do a Liverpool 2005 and let them in anyway, citing that the super glory hunting championship will be cheapened as a spectacle without Barcelona. They'll have no qualms enforcing it on the likes of us, but they will worry at our potential to fuck them over by starting a new, better, breakaway league.

UEFA are in big trouble, really. Their financial model is based on keeping the huge 10 onside, Europe will lose its place as the best club confederation if anything at all should happen to those 10 clubs. Thats why I'm still confident that we can do what we like and Platini et al can get to fuck.

[capriccioso 2,545]

Can you really imagine the likes of Roman letting rules get in the way of what he wants? He has no qualms about breaking international and domestic laws that could see him get long prison terms, breaking a few football laws would at worst give him a few million owed in fines, which is a slap on the wrist for him. Or the Sheikhs at City, Malaga and PSG, who, by virtue of their royal blood, have been able to get whatever they want whenever they want.

UEFA have absolutely no chance of stopping a man like that.

[teignman 441]

The deal Man-City have with themselves is criminal.

I've been saying that for a while now, really hope they get what's coming to them.

That deal is one of the most blatant, transparent acts of fraud I've seen in a while.

[capriccioso 2,545]

UEFA have banned Besiktas from European competition for breaching FFP rules:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/9300032/Besiktas-suspended-from-European-competition-for-one-year-by-Uefa.html

What in fucks name is wrong with these clowns. They're stopping a club, already in debt with no sugar daddy to prop them up; from taking part in a competition that will at least ease their debt pressures. They've also hit them with a fine.

That'll be the end of Besiktas JK, I think. A few more years of being banned from Europe and one of Turkey's great clubs will be in the doldrums and may never recover. They could also go bankrupt and cease to exist.

[We Hate Scouse 10,259]

fined them €200,000, due to financial problems

Nice to see them helping.

They have financial problems and they decide to fine them? In what world does that work? What is the ideology behind that? Absolutely ridiculous. What a bunch of utter clowns.

[Ollie 4,400]

FFP wont work at all, now teams like us will just get more sponsors and get more money. Also, this interested me.

http://www.financial...lve-ffp-worries

New Premier League TV deal to resolve FFP worries 19 June 2012

It isn't often that sporting journalists are genuinely shocked, but the new Premier League TV rights auction surprised many. The rights to broadcast the Premier League matches from 2013 to 2016 within the UK were up-for-grabs and had been expected to be sold for a similar sum to last time. Owing to the aggressive bidding from BT and the desire by Sky to hold onto most of the matches, the bidding closed at £3.018bn (a huge increase of £1.2bn from the last auction). For an excellent in-depth piece on the new deal, read this piece from

www.sportingintelligence.com .

The increase is so large (around 70%), that the FFP test covering years 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 should be significantly eased for all Premier League clubs. However, this assumes the clubs spend the proceeds wisely and that the new funds don't trigger a new period of wage-escalation. Alan Sugar (Spurs Chairman at the time of the first Sky deal in 1992) talked of the 'prune juice effect' in football - whatever funds come in at the top are allowed to run out at the bottom (mainly on player wages). Despite clubs sharing over £1.1bn last season in TV revenue, most clubs fail to break-even. The new deal is more than 10-times the size of the 1992 deal - during this time player salaries have increased from an average £117k a year to a current averageof over £2m a year (a 17-fold increase).

Analysts at Citi estimate that BT will need at least 2.5m subscribers to break-even - whether they can achieve this high figure remains to be seen. Clubs need to be mindful of the possibility that the next auction may not be as competitive and that revenue may decrease after 2015/16. With the current potential for wage escalation and with club tying players into 4 and 5 year contracts, it is important that clubs don't over-rely on the new deal's level of income.

One other area of risk will be at the middle to bottom end of the Premier League. There is no escaping the fact that three clubs will be dumped off the gravy-train each season. Losing a guaranteed income of over £60m a season would be a disaster for a club that had written player contracts assuming this level of income (even allowing for parachute payments).

Regarding FFP, it is important to remember that the increased revenue commences in 2013/14 - i.e. after the first two-year FFP Monitoring Period. Clubs will need to ensure that the promise of the new revenue does not get in the way of their need to meet the first Monitoring Period target.

However with up-to £120m available for the top Premier Clubs, perhaps the prospect of an additional £30m in Champions League revenue (or £6m for the Europa League) could potentially become less financially relevant.

It's basically saying that teams will get paid so much more from the BT deal that they will easily bypass the FFP anyway as they will pay teams a lot more money.

[Justin_3d 1,140]

This is not fair play at all.

It's just stupid play!

Cause all it will do is make the richer get richer, and the poorer get poorer.

All this to stop owners like Roman, and Sheik Monsour from owning a smaller team and threaten the established order.

[We Hate Scouse 10,259]

King Gourlay has it covered.

[OneMoSalah 8,629]

FFP has been bullshit ever since it formed, UEFA are a bunch of fucking idiots.

[capriccioso 2,545]

None of you really believed this would work right? Football is the most corrupt sport in the world. They will find ways around it.