QPR set to settle Financial Fair Play wrangle with Football League for just £8m

[jgmcdee]

The real question is, who does the money go to?

Charity. It was to go to the compliant Championship teams but the Premier League put paid to that.

Overall, FFP has been a huge embarrassment to the Championship and they should be ashamed of their inability to handle their own members.

 

[Driver8]

FFP seemed to be working well with Forest and Blackburn suffering for their sins. QPR have been very clever with their litigation allowing them to sign the players they need before being hit with any embargo. If the fine is under £15m, they should have at least 20 points docked. Let's see what the league do.

A point for every £1m they evade would seem fair.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Blackburn have signed about 4 players since being under this embargo.

Yes, but it's on a 1 out -> 1 in basis.


- and the incoming must be on lower wages than the outgoing, with a maximum yearly wage ( including agents fees ) of 600K - which in practice means about 10K per week.

 

[KZNSeagull]

And that's another part of the joke, the money should be distributed to the clubs that stayed within the rules. The charity thing was the first sign of this being a total cop-out.

I agree, but I would rather the headlines were "Charities cheated out of 50m by QPR". People outside of football might actually give a damn then.

 

[nwgull]

Yes, but it's on a 1 out -> 1 in basis.


- and the incoming must be on lower wages than the outgoing, with a maximum yearly wage ( including agents fees ) of 600K - which in practice means about 10K per week.

They also can't pay any transfer fees, can they?

It seems to be working, to an extent, in that Forest and Blackburn are tipped to be losing their best players by the end of this transfer window. They may both struggle this year (September onward).

 

[Papa Lazarou]

They also can't pay any transfer fees, can they?

It seems to be working, to an extent, in that Forest and Blackburn are tipped to be losing their best players by the end of this transfer window. They may both struggle this year (September onward).

Maybe not anymore?!

with this news, surely they have grounds to appeal their punishment, if QPR's punishment has been downscaled so massively?

 

[KZNSeagull]

Maybe not anymore?!

with this news, surely they have grounds to appeal their punishment, if QPR's punishment has been downscaled so massively?

Perhaps this represents a change in the rules, so the FL clubs will have to vote on their agreement to it?

 

[El Presidente]

Those of you who listen to the Albion Roar will know that this was predicted last November.

As always, the Roar leads with the news leaving others trailing in the wake.
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[SAC]

Playing devils advocate here.

I believe that the QPR owners basically wrote off the losses. If this is the case and FFP was brought in to ensure that clubs didn't get into financial trouble then perhaps it should be deemed to have been successful? Likewise if clubs who have broken FFP rules and remain in the Championship have had their ability to sign new players curtailed then it has been successful.

 

[BBassic]

So to summarise:

By once again pandering to the PL by changing the 'give the money to compliant clubs' rule and by now, seemingly, allowing QPR off with what is essentially a slap on the wrist all the League has done is prove, again, that they're a bunch of spineless puppets bent and wrought by the iron will and smarmy legal teams of rich, cheating *******s.

 

[narly101]

I agree, but I would rather the headlines were "Charities cheated out of 50m by QPR". People outside of football might actually give a damn then.

Like it. Just used it on Twitter.

 

[brightn'ove]

What a disgrace.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Have these articles in the 2 tabloids been verified?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The day the Football League popped into Loftus Road to discuss Financial Fair Play with QPR....

(***NSFW if you've got the sound on***)

 

[Daffy Duck]

It's all Edna's fault because of THAT photo with 'arry outside the Amex after we beat them 2-0.

 

[brakespear]

It's all Edna's fault because of THAT photo with 'arry outside the Amex after we beat them 2-0.

Agreed - football was the real loser of that photo

 

[Pavilionaire]

They've been fined so they're guilty of wrongdoing. Yet the financial gain by breaking the rules far exceeds the fine. Basically they've been found guilty of robbing a bank but are allowed to keep 95% of the cash they've nicked.

Forest and Blackburn are hamstrung, QPR can clear the fine with the Sterling sell- on fee, Bristol City are bidding £6 million for players. The situation now with huge parachute payments in the mix and ludicrous Sky TV money is an absolute farce.

In summary - cheat and get promoted = happy days. cheat and don't get promoted = disaster.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

They've been fined so they're guilty of wrongdoing. Yet the financial gain by breaking the rules far exceeds the fine. Basically they've been found guilty of robbing a bank but are allowed to keep 95% of the cash they've nicked.

Forest and Blackburn are hamstrung, QPR can clear the fine with the Sterling sell- on fee, Bristol City are bidding £6 million for players. The situation now with huge parachute payments in the mix and ludicrous Sky TV money is an absolute farce.

In summary - cheat and get promoted = happy days. cheat and don't get promoted = disaster.

Therefore making the Palace play off defeat a very very bitter pill to swallow. And lets be honest we will probably not have the same chance for a long, long time.

 

[studio150]

You mean like Blackburn and Forest?? They're both under a transfer embargo.

That was a joke as well, Forest fail FFP have a transfer embargo imposed, and then are given £250k in the Sky Bet supporter draw to spend on players.

Maybe far better to impose points deduction based on overspending, deduct 10 points per million regardless of which division the team is in.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

That was a joke as well, Forest fail FFP have a transfer embargo imposed, and then are given £250k in the Sky Bet supporter draw to spend on players.

Maybe far better to impose points deduction based on overspending, deduct 10 points per million regardless of which division the team is in.

I hear ya, but in reality, what does £250k buy in the Championship? That's barely six months wages for many Championship players, and without even thinking about transfer fees, signing on fees and so on. A League Two club might have made actual use of that. To Forest, it's a drop in the ocean. Couldn't have happened to a nicer manager