Financial Fair Play

[Superblue 6,372]

What this shows is

1. Uefa are serious about FFP (it's only likely to get even stricter!)

2. It's right for us to be working within FFP if these are the types of sanctions. This means players such as David Luiz who carries a lot of potential sale value but isn't regarded as first choice may need to be sacrificed.

3. It's important to have a strong core of homegrown players.

[Fernando 6,585]

I think the epic fight of City vs Uefa will be more fun then the world cup itself! :-D

[The Mak 4,459]

They will appeal and we'll find out if they're serious about FFP or not. I suspect they'll cave. Even still, a 2-3 year transfer ban is much more devastating to City than £50m over 3 years (which probably won't even added to their deficit). It's a nice summer bonus for Platini anyway...

[AndersonBLUE 819]

City have to be careful, I would have just accepted the fine.

[Rmpr 8,977]

I read somewhere that Platini was considering instead of banning teams who breach FFP completely from European competitions, to have a limit on the wages of the players who can play in Europe from those teams. So if you breach FFP you can't play all your stars in European competitions.

I think that's a very practical and achievable idea. I hope they implement it because let's face it, banning big clubs from the CL was never realistic.

No, that was UEFA's first idea (cap limit), but that proved to be an impossible idea!

That is when FFP came about...

[The only place to be 11,313]

City have to be careful, I would have just accepted the fine.

The thing is it's not just the authorities they have to worry about. Arsenal and us are also very serious about FFP. The simple fact is that clubs like us have potentially limited our shot at success by adhering to these rules so I have no doubt that we would probably look to take some sort of action as well if City aren't punished appropriately.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

If city will not accept it, they will be banned for CL?

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

If city will not accept it, they will be banned for CL?

No it goes to some UEFA panel whose decision is "final", although Citeh can then go to Court of Arbitration who will make the real final decision.

[Rmpr 8,977]

If city will not accept it, they will be banned for CL?

You really think UCL sponsors will allow players like Aguero, David Silva, Toure, Kompany, etc, to be banned from their competition?

Also, we had our chance to grow. Why cant City and PSG do the same? Just because they have more money?

[AndersonBLUE 819]

The thing is it's not just the authorities they have to worry about. Arsenal and us are also very serious about FFP. The simple fact is that clubs like us have potentially limited our shot at success by adhering to these rules so I have no doubt that we would probably look to take some sort of action as well if City aren't punished appropriately.

I doubt other clubs hold much power in the situation though, sure we could file a complaint or something but I'm not sure how far it would go.

[Jype 6,398]

Also, we had our chance to grow. Why cant City and PSG do the same? Just because they have more money?

Maybe because they're both trying to scam their way out of these problems with fake sponsorships etc.? If they were to just do what's right and explain to UEFA how they're going to turn things around I'm pretty sure they'd be cut some slack but now it's all about making an example out of them.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Maybe because they're both trying to scam their way out of these problems with fake sponsorships etc.? If they were to just do what's right and explain to UEFA how they're going to turn things around I'm pretty sure they'd be cut some slack but now it's all about making an example out of them.

So what? They didnt do anything illegal!

What exactly are there to make an example of? Oh yeah, if you have lots of money you will piss off a lot of people and then get punished by it...