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They dared to spend. Our owner dared to have a completely empty transfer window.
It's genuinely fucking evil, killing people, using them as slaves, yet the more clubs they buy to more people will 'like' the owners and what they stand forThis has actually made me sick
As if this fucken year can't get any worse - more proof corrupt evil always triumphs over good
Disgrace of a club and disgrace the PL is allowing this propaganda for human rights violations of a money-laundering organisation to exist
I wonder if City will further appeal the 10m Euro fine?
I'm mean, if they are not in the wrong here then surely they will want the record set straight......or will they be absolutely delighted with the outcome and never mention this ever again......
The rules do have problems FFP should have been stricter in the first place.
The problem is that at some point big spending has to stop because a club can't sustain the costs naturally, this is why people were so annoyed about Real Madrid doing deals with the government to wash debt away.
What is wrong is someone coming in to a club and putting in hundreds of millions of pounds that a club could never raise as a business or could continue to afford. Because if an owner decides to leave the project, that club faces bankruptcy in the absence of a white Knight.
Now this is not common at the top tier but if you know your local non league or lower league clubs you can find several examples of chairmen putting in good money then withdrawing 5 years later, 2 years afterwards the club has gone bankrupt. FFP is not just about the top of the game, it's trying to prepare football clubs for the real world.
Man City and Chelsea have played the system and won, it's not right and though the law might be an ass, the bigger message is that if you do what you want and get questions afterwards, just take it to Cas with a good lawyer. Meanwhile everyone spends more than they should to keep up with the chasing pack. Sometimes nearly the entire club revenue, which is where things get problematic, what's more problematic? When clubs disguise sponsorship to lower the ratio, so the data is questionable and the club is not as secure as it seems.
This is not just about Spurs, it's the wellbeing of every club in the league, in most cases spending more on players and wages than they can justify. I am not saying that Levy has an excuse not to spend, more that the trend of overspending could create a league where a lot of clubs end up in dire straits. Also I don't want a competition which is prefaced on which club had the best spending power, that makes the whole exercise fairly pointless.
The fact a city fan has to come on another's teams site to explain their clubs activities tells you all you need to know.Piss off back to Blue Moon, no one gives a fuck what you think. Your club cheated and bought your way to success outside FFP and then lied. I hope they fuck you with every close VAR decision in UEFA competition for the next decade.