Financial Fair Play

[Paul1970 250]

I `ll take your word for it The Skipper...as soon as I read "way too lengthy" I scrolled down.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Brilliant read, read it on WAGNH earlier today. Always knew Jake was brilliant, happy for him, especially when this was his debut piece for them.

[John1611 77]

Brilliant article, haven't read all of it, but rather slowly skimmed through it focusing on the main points. Hopefully will read the whole thing later.

[coolhead23 1,147]

I believe this is like an addition to whatever was mentioned by Jake Cohen above. This has a comprehensive database which has all the wages of the players and where they stand as per FPP. Again very interesting read with the option of downloading the Excel file which is integrated.

You would have to visit the url for the article and other details as it would be difficult to get the excel in here.

http://www.weaintgotnohistory.com/2013/9/4/4659496/chelsea-player-wage-database

[Spike 12,049]

I just want to watch entertaining football.. GOL GOL GOL MESSI MESSI MESSI

[Jase 43,479]

Chelsea is officially FFP compliant, not among 76 clubs UEFA is investigating for possible violations

P.S. Have just merged 2-3 of the older threads on the FFP discussion and named this merged thread 'Financial Fair Play'. So, if there is anything related to Chelsea and the FFP rules, just discuss it in here so it's easier for it to do so without having to create multiple threads from time to time.

[Fernando 6,585]

Chelsea is officially FFP compliant, not among 76 clubs UEFA is investigating for possible violations

P.S. Have just merged 2-3 of the older threads on the FFP discussion and named this merged thread 'Financial Fair Play'. So, if there is anything related to Chelsea and the FFP rules, just discuss it in here so it's easier for it to do so without having to create multiple threads from time to time.

That article said this interesting thing:

If and when PSG or any other club is hit with a sanction that will in any way affect its plans for the 2014-2015 season, said club will not only spend considerable resources challenging the decision via CAS, but it will also challenge the legality of FFP in the European courts and will claim hundreds of millions of sterling pounds in damages. UEFA is fully cognizant of this, and as such, will likely attempt to work with affected clubs on settlements.

If this indeed becomes a reality then FFP will be what I thought all along. A means to get money out of the rich clubs into UEFA pockets.

But we shall see if that is the case.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

Manchester City are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2014.

The 2014 report considers 294 teams in 15 leagues in 12 countries across seven different sports: football, baseball, basketball, American football, cricket, ice hockey and Aussie Rules football.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2014/04/15/revealed-man-city-yankees-dodgers-rm-barca-best-paid-in-global-sport-150401/

So Chelsea are just barely above Arsenal...

Also:

Man City are likely to face sanctions over breaching FFP rules. Apparently clubs directly affected by City could influence their FFP fate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/10767413/Arsenal-Manchester-United-or-Liverpool-could-challenge-Manchester-Citys-likely-penalty-for-breaching-FFP-rules.html

[BloodIsBlue 291]

However, folks are going to prevent the likes of PSG soon from playing with the books, I read recently.

At Chelsea, who is better than some Russian accountants ?

Believe me folks when it comes to Russians there are no better doctors with numbers.

It doesn't matter what kind of mathematics this is true. Had a brilliant Russian stats professor once and she was the sharpest math mind I ever met in my life.

[bushman 2,043]

Russians are certainly sharp. Just look at Putin. He is the sharpest cunt around.

[Muzchap 8,966]

Russians are certainly sharp. Just look at Putin. He is the sharpest cunt around.

After working in Moscow for 2 years and encouraging a mate to move from Russia to England so his kids could become fluent in English - the reason behind their mathematical genius is simple!

EDUCATION

They have an amazing education system and their Maths is so advanced at an early age. His daughter was 13 and knew more maths than the A level students, after 2 years she had to go back to Moscow to live with her grandparents - her English was good enough but her maths was suffering!

It's not just maths - Russians are taught the 'long game' - strategic thinking - they are the masters at this on a global level.

I'm just glad they're in our corner I'd rather have a Russian than a Sheik - purely because Sheiks normally inherit wealth, typically, Russians gamble big to be wealthy...

[Tomo 21,751]

There is only 5 clubs in England that can benefit from FFP in the long run and that's United, Arsenal, Chelsea, City and Liverpool.

Why any other club voted for the rule is quite frankly mindblowing, they have basically signed away any chance off ever getting to the top.

A relatively big club like Spurs, Everton or Newcastle might get a Dortmund lite little period off success every now and again but long term under FFP, we have a big 5 that won't be pushed.