Finally someone talking sense. Wish things were changed.

His 2 unintended consequences are spot on. Clubs should be allowed to improve their clubs if they have the funds available, not through borrowing more and more, and they shouldn't have to sell home grown talent to do it.

Newcastle just got caught in the trap set for City.

Chelsea is the worst example you could give. They did not HAVE to sell all those players. They chose to because their new owner went on a mad spending spree with no clear plan (buying 3 holding midfielders for 250M and not buying a striker). They could have been very successful with careful planning and prudent spending.

Sick to death of hearing about ffp, gone are the days when you can dream of the signings coming in the summer to improve your team, now you know that your probably going to lose your best player to ironically one of the big six just to break even. So much for FAIR PLAY the top six will remain the top six because the rules don’t allow for the rest of the premier league to muscle their way in on a regular basis. Newcastle last season and Villa this are the rare teams to do it but it will only be for one season as they don’t have the ability to push on financially despite being two clubs with hugely wealthy owners who are desperate to spend. Until they change the rules which are designed to keep everyone down beneath the big six nothing will change. Yet at the start of each season we will all still feel we are heading for a great season because we all want to dream.

It's all about stopping teams from upsetting the establishment. Nothing more nothing less.

About time someone had the balls to say it. Fancy buying into a business and then not being allowed to grow and develop it? Especially when they have made it debt free. Where else would that happen? As long as the rules protect clubs from overspending and going out of business, clubs should be allowed to show they can sustain it. Time for a change from this idiotic rule.

Chelsea didn't have to sell their young home grown players. They chose to sell them by spending outrageous amounts of money on other young players

Completely disagree with tearing down FFP. All it will do is drive up wages and transfer fees for the rest of the clubs in the pyramid. You can't give a club three seasons to spend what they like. They will have to build gradually and earn the money. Is it fair that Chelsea and Man City were able to do this before the rules changed, no it isn't. But you can't allow for uncontrolled spending, it's dangerous

Absolutely spot on.

This man always makes sense

He is right to a Certain extent. But the Big 6 in England pushed the PL to add to these other laws/rules/regulations to the FFP debacle to stop anyone outwith the Big 6 challenging on a regular basis. Basically to protect the already established

Go and play football manager. No club can have rise and fight for title in a season just because of some filthy rich owner bought your club.

For me, football is broken right from right from F.I.F.A. down. I hand on heart feel the game is completely full of corruption from tF.I.F.A. down to non-league. I look at what the future of the game is likely to be going forward & for me, it just gets more & more murky as the seasons are going on.

He’s talking utter rubbish. FFP needs to get stricter

This is the most accurate, unbiased, & honest take of the state of play of FFP i have personally heard, to date. The whole thing needs shelved, restructured & remodelled. To Benefit *All club's. Not just the breakaway 6, whome are the only clubs who benefit. The sheer fact that, as he so eloquently puts it, club's have to sell their own home grown talent, to comply, or meet ffp demands, sums up how ludicrous the state of it is. Well said, sir 👏

He makes sense

I agree that FFP was introduced to protect the American owned red shirts, but the likes of Everton and Forest voted for it so have no grounds to complain.

His Michelle Platini theory seems a bit conspiratorial. In the 13 years since FFP came in, only 8 professional English league clubs have gone into administration. In the 13 years prior to FFP 33 clubs did. The problem was very rich owners coming in with all the best intentions then getting bored and leaving with many players on the books on mega-wages that the clubs they left were contractually obliged to keep on paying until those contracts expired. It was never about transfer fees per se.

Whilst i agree, these FFP rules were implemented years ago. The new owners of Newcastle should have done their due diligence regarding FFP before buying Newcastle. Similarly, Chelsea werent forced to sell off their homegrown players. They did that themselves by buying Enzo, Caicedo etc. for crazy money. Spurs on the other hand, saw this coming a mile away, building a stadium and now able to compete by obeying the rules set in place.

FFP keeps the rich richer. The cost of players has gone up, meaning surely the amount you can lose should go up. Tub of Lurpack costs £6 nowadays… back in 2008 it cost £3…. That should be the benchmark

Do what the NFL does, if you're going to guarantee a contract or parts of a contract over years, that money needs to go into an escrow account. That way rich owners can spend the $$$ but you're sheltered from bankruptcy by crazy contracts if they decide to leave or stop funding the club.

Spot on. FFP was a Trojan horse used by the red cartel to make it impossible for smaller clubs to compete with them. By diminishing a smaller club's ability to spend, it ensured that the red cartel would stay at the top - a football caste system. SMH If they were so concerned about the debt burden taken on my some owners, easy fix: require the owner to set aside 12m-18m with of opex once the club exceeds an agreed upon ratio of debt/assets, say 20% but even say it is only to used for footballing investments that are non-long-term assets, effectively saying, that ratio is specifically for squad personnel investment. Something to that effect and you'd have no issues with clubs going into administration.

This is spot on imo 👌 👏

I’d say that clubs owned by states should be more careful given that as seen with Chelsea if anything happens on the global stage, which could happen in the Middle East sooner than later, they will be pulled out and Newcastle left dry.

100% spot on

Despite agreeing with what he said, for the most part, I must say a bigger problem is that: Paying someone 300k a week is MAD! Spending +£70m on, let's be honest "good" not great players is MAD. Allowing clubs to buy dozens of players and spread them across multiple clubs with the same owners is MAD! Allowing one club to spend £300m while another can only spend £30m despite being in the SAME LEAGUE, IS MAD!

So if your cub isn't owned by a nation-state, you're screwed too. No thanks

100% sir....

Well said Purslow. He is absolutely bang on. ⚽️👍⚽️👍

There are always unintended consequences from new rules and there will be unintended consequences from what is proposed. If new owners are allowed to spend extra for three years you will be incentivising takeovers. Eg An entity taking over a club from a related party just to bypass ffp. Imagine Man City having a takeover every 5 or ten years. Another problem with this proposal is that it hurts clubs with a stable ownership. Fans will be protesting for their owners to sell to another entity so they can buy a new shiny player. There will always be loopholes in law.

I can see the loophole straightaway. Owners buying from themselves to be allowed to ignore FFP entirely. I agree that FFP is not fit for purpose but this proposition is even worse.

Totally true.

For me, as long as a team is not going into debt, allow them to spend up to a certain point. i.e. ave of top 3 spending clubs. That way you don't get a Man City or Chelsea out spending everyone else and creating an unfair playing field. Atm, its so hard to break into the Big 6 as you need to grow your revenue to compete, how do you grow your revenue: by being successful which is hard to do if you are only allowed to spend half the amount of the Big 6.

As the time closes in on Man City’s punishment for their 115 charges; there will be more and more voices like this popping up all over the place suggesting that FFP is actually the problem, and that the owners of the clubs that violate the rules are just hardworking folk trying to make an honest buck; being unfairly persecuted for their efforts; victims of their own success etc. F* that. City Football Group need to be held accountable; the “investigation” or whatever the hell is going on needs to be resolved immediately.

It's dead easy, ask Man City, 110 charges and nothing done about it.

FFP helps make this league competitive. Get rid of it and it becomes Newcastle and Man City. Players will then become even higher inflated with wages becoming ridiculous. Imagine, a club brings through some great players they have worked hard to model. Newcastle come along buy them all and the money they get would be meaningless as money would become worthless.

FFP makes no sense unless applied to City.

If just spend so much they have to sell there academy players. Its there own faults

There to protect teams from over spending. Leeds and Portsmouth come to mind.

Agree on the last part, its getting boring with the same old top clubs are favorites to win CL, need to help clubs across Europe from other league to fight with the football pyramid.

It doesn't matter what rules are brought in it's the fans who are the losers in the end! and that's not right.

Based on that then all the sovereign wealth funded clubs can go crazy in the transfer market…

The most successful club during the FFP era has been Man City so all Newcastle have to do is replicate them 👍🏻

It can only be FFP if all teams in breaking the rules are punished which city and Chelsea clearly are Everton are being punished and rightly so for admitting guilt.

Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool have spent more on one player than the collective value of some Everton and Forest starting elevens, and somehow they are the cheats gaining an unfair advantage deserving punishment by the premier league. The premier league has never been less exciting. Remember the days when top strikers given a one on one with a goalkeeper woudn't miss the opportunity. When you think about some of the great players of the past who got paid a lot less than players now. Never was the phrase " the more they have the less they are worth " been so true.

FFPs a French idea through Platinis jealously of English success in Europe...😂😂 brilliant!! Anyone heard of Brexit??

Overseas fans HATE homegrown players, and the Premier League is obsessed with being a 'global brand' so they probably see clubs selling homegrown players and replacing them with scouted, foreign signings as a positive.

FFP shouldn’t be used to stop clubs that have billions in credit . But used for the clubs that don’t and gamble and get loans to cover costs or if they run out of cash. To save them going bust. (Leicester 50m loan 2021/22 and again 50m in 23/24 from Aussie banks). Leeds did it in 2001. FFP used for owners that don’t have endless funds. If rich clubs over spending, cap them at £250m a season

Maybe don't use Chelsea as an example. The owner spent fortunes on young players and chose to do that over keeping the players already there. He didn't need to make such a drastic change

Correct Mr. Purslow 👍

Talking sense whoever he is🤷‍♂️👍

See the thing is the rules don’t require you to make profit they just require you not to make a loss of more than 105 million or whatever the number is. If you’re making a loss of 105 million pounds when it’s stated that you’re not allowed to do that I’m sorry but that’s your fault.

Do they really own their clubs when they can't invest in them with their own money. I get it , yet it doesn't equal success. It still sounds crazy to me. Like the world footballs gone mad. If it ain't broke, dont fix it 🤔

Poor Newcastle only being allowed to spend £400m+

He makes sense only if your clubs owners are worth 300 billion

What he said…

Spurs are a self sestaining club at the moment, who use secondary events to fund the repayment of the stadium. I think more the rules should allow clubs to create business plans to enhance the club and not put injections of cash towards players, but the ground, and surrounding infrastructure. Utd for how poor they have been some years have still always have money because their infrastructure is set so the club is self sustaining as well, more clubs should be allowed to go towards this.

Well said Christian👏

I dont agree. LFC had to compete with Chelsea City United the past 10 years over spending. We needed a world class manager adding developing a few world class players . Pep's 2nd season he spend more on his defence than the Military. 200M. If NCFC spends what they can afford 2 years later , it'll be them, and City pushing the payer's prices up, trying totouch the glass celing has pushed the league up so high, why should it be 10 more expensive than others. Where's competition, you want billion dollar operations functioning @ the highest standards what does that do for the up n coming clubs promoted. Their There for pogo sticks, to give outdated pundits a slaughter house job.😮😮😮😮😮 u must be a NCFC Fan. No united wasted money can't compete, billions in 15 years. Chelsea a billion wasted. Do u agree they deserve to be where they are. I believe both teams should get relegated for over spending. How is Ncfc aloud to spend 6 times more than competitors. Some people create their own game set rules then ask people to compete knowing they have more on the table. The money corrupts the game . Potter earned 19M from chelsea, where's the money and him now benefited nothing😅😅😅😅😅.

I think I love it the way it is.

So what are the unintended consequences of his suggestions. All models have flaws. Utopia doesn’t exist.

were already in the big 6 FFP becoming stricter would only benefit us, even more so against clubs like the red cartel who tend to have a season or two away from the UCL 🤷🏾‍♂️. im not saying we should have the wild west and no rules but i would say that FFP does need relaxing, because what ur going to see is that gap between the big 6 and the other 14 getting bigger and bigger and bigger. were already seeing it with the promoted teams looking like theyre going straight back down, and im expecting that trend to continue for a long while. FFP was put into place to stop us and PSG but its harming the smaller clubs more than it will ever harm us, because we all know whats going to happen with the 115🗑️

I don’t agree, Chelsea have to sell their home grown talent becuase they overspent bringing in a billion dollars worth of players.

Regulation is a good thing if it stops a monopoly on the league (aka City). But, as we have seen, it's pointless when some clubs can flagrantly break the rules, tie UEFA/FIFA/PL up in litigation and have that monopoly anyway. The Spanish system is better IMO. The league looks at the books pre-season and tells the clubs what they can spend.

Is it not a good thing that you need to be sensible? If you are willing to spend the bones of a billion in 18 months on players no better than what you have, should the trade of not be that you don't get to hang on to your academy players? Seems to me like FFP worked, you shouldn't be allowed be as reckless without some consequences

Get rid

it serves the top 6 so nothing will change

Until ffp is sorted to suit NUFC I hope the England football team win sfa

Didn't everyone vote for these rules?

If a Foreign Billionaire wants to spends million on his club, why can't he ? If someone bought Tesco and wanted to spend billions improving the service, why should Sainsburys have a right to complain ?

Investing in clubs after a takeover without saddling club with debt.... Sounds like Sheikh Mansour. So how is he the bad guy?

FFP needs to be removed

FFP doesn’t exist.

FFP came in to protect the existing bigger sides as new owners were coming in and challenging the established elite clubs. On the side was to protect clubs from administration. In any normal business you dont have an amount your allowed to keep losing and still operate.

chelsea fans just wanted the russian to spend to win, they didnt give a dam about youth. Your talking rubbish mate.

Its pretty easy stop cheating.

How difficult is it not to lose £35million a year ? 🤨

He makes a compelling argument for a reboot of FFP and Sustainability regulations

All for a 'Reboot' of FFP, but not until Man City and other outstanding cases are dealt with. City have been praying for just such an outcome and no doubt proposed a 'Reboot' of their own.

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Scrap FFP let owners and clubs spend whatever they want.

These people are so uninformed. The rules will be re-booted into UEFA squad cost rules. At that stage agree a points deduction.

Theres notting wrong with FFP or PSR Its great to see FFP finally have teeth so theres no problems

amen