FFP latest predictions

[aolstudios]

They're not even barred from signing players - Leeds think they can still bring in 4 new faces. They just have to be free transfers and not cost more than 600k a year. The real problems only kick in if you have more than 24 players aged 21+ who've played 5+ games... Then you can only sign a new player if you let one go first. Again, under the same criteria as above (free & less than 600k a year).

It does rather feel as if we've been duped. The punishments for going for promotion suggest it would have been worth breaking the rules... Although it's Bloom's money, so I suppose it's up to him....

Which is exactly what most of NSC have been predicting the whole way. To have been duped you'd have to be rather dim, so frankly I'm hoping the people running the club have been economical with the truth with us on this subject, rather than dim. Because then we'd really be in trouble...

 

[nwgull]

Which is exactly what most of NSC have been predicting the whole way. To have been duped you'd have to be rather dim, so frankly I'm hoping the people running the club have been economical with the truth with us on this subject, rather than dim. Because then we'd really be in trouble...

Seems, so far, that Bloom could have spent the money and got away with it if he'd wanted to take a gamble. However, it's easy for us to spend his millions for him; you can't blame him for wanting to limit his loss to a mere £8m a year, FFP or not.

 

[drew]

Have to say that, having previously supported FFP, it now seems to have been a complete let down. Not sure I read anywhere about those clubs on a transfer embargo to be allowed to bring in players on the basis described. Wonder whether these were some of the changes introduced at the recent meeting but were kept quiet with the only real announcements being about the changes in the limits.

 

[trueblue]

Which is exactly what most of NSC have been predicting the whole way. To have been duped you'd have to be rather dim, so frankly I'm hoping the people running the club have been economical with the truth with us on this subject, rather than dim. Because then we'd really be in trouble...

I've very rarely seen anyone outlining the detail of FFP here other than 'transfer embargo' so I think you're giving many of the cynics too much credit. Most were just basing it on a general feeling that clubs will be allowed to get away with it rather than any real insight. So I think a fair few people probably have been duped.

 

[aolstudios]

I've very rarely seen anyone outlining the detail of FFP here other than 'transfer embargo' so I think you're giving many of the cynics too much credit. Most were just basing it on a general feeling that clubs will be allowed to get away with it rather than any real insight. So I think a fair few people probably have been duped.

Most of us felt it was obvious clubs would get away with it & they have. What more insight did we need?

 

[SAC]

Most of us felt it was obvious clubs would get away with it & they have. What more insight did we need?

Get away with what?

Clubs that are found to have been in the wrong will get the transfer embargo that was agreed. Some clubs will have decided that the punishment (or lack of it) was worth it. That is no different than clubs deciding that in year one of FFP it was going to be ignored as there were no punishments.

The real interest will be when they announce how QPR got on and (assuming they failed) what their punishment is. I hope that their punishment is exactly what was agreed.

 

[trueblue]

Most of us felt it was obvious clubs would get away with it & they have. What more insight did we need?

Well I would tend to believe people whose views are based on the facts rather than guess work - so I was perfectly willing to accept the club's version.

 

[aolstudios]

Well I would tend to believe people whose views are based on the facts rather than guess work - so I was perfectly willing to accept the club's version.

There were a lot of lucky guessers on here & in the press then, in fact an overwhelming majority. Guess the club were just unlucky

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTO5Hkc0xuA

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

And further embagoes may well follow it seems...

I think the other clubs are having the accounts they submitted scrutinised by forensic accountants especially those who said beforehand they wouldn't be within the target figure.

 

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Don't know what those are exactly however it did give me a thought. Instead of a financial penalty, clubs failing FFP have to compromised with their on pitch attire, so for example a minor breach means their shirts have to be slightly heavier/made from itchier material and going to a major breach the players have to wear football boots from the 60's

Boots from the 60s! Why not go the whole hog and have leather balls with a lace in? And Bob Latchford could turn up and knock your teeth out (he would of course help you look for them after the game)

Perhaps trams and trolley-buses too?

 

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I think the other clubs are having the accounts they submitted scrutinised by forensic accountants especially those who said beforehand they wouldn't be within the target figure.

Will this be a TV series with Trevor Eve (and his daughter having the target figure)?