It's still alive. It just punishes the small teams. The bigger ones are already self-sustaining.

City gets away with it through shady deals everywhere which sucks 

You can find in many media outlets.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/25/football-financial-fair-play-rules-to-be-ripped-up-after-covid-crisis

Edited March 26, 20215 yr by Zaphod2319

The link above is suggesting adjustments due to revenue stream being impacted by COV-ID 19, which seem reasonable while the virus persists, yet not long term.

The idea that our football authorities are interested in " fair play" is laughable.

The same crooks that are giving us a world cup in Qatar, and are neck deep in corruption.

I have seen a lot of discussion that it is not a coincidence that FFP is being set aside right when Barca and RM need to rebuild their squads and spend a lot of money to make it happen.

Just want Roman to ruin football again, those were the days

2 hours ago, TomCFC85 said:

Just want Roman to ruin football again, those were the days

Alex Sandro statement signing incoming?

Crazy summer in coming. It will have been 4 seasons since Neymar and PSG broke the ceiling, I still don't think we will ever see a fee that high again although never say never. In terms of outlays I expect every big team to go in this summer.

Some of the players being linked with moves whether rumoured to be true or not include some heavy hitters ( CR7, Messi, Haaland, Mbapps, Hazard, Griezmann, Coutinho, Dybala, Pogba, Lukaku, Depay, Bale, Sancho and the list goes on).

After a quiet summer last year, we could see a record expenditure across all of the big leagues. Teams may look to stockpile top talent like Man city have done in the past. Mega superstar squads are starting to become the norm again with teams like Bayern, PSG, City and us.

This could prove beneficial for us as we did this last season. While all the new 'superstars' settle into their new surroundings we would have a relatively well settled group one would hope. With a top tier striker and cb we may just take the league by storm under Tommy 2 cool.