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MarinerDevil
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FFP is a joke, designed primarily to stop the big clubs having their party ruined by another Man City.  If anyone were serious about stopping runaway debts, a simple spending cap would suffice.  That would make things too fair though, wouldn't it?
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Everything where money is concerned for the elite is crooked,
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In spite of all this bending of financial rules by various clubs, none of them ever seem to go that high in the football pyramind. Fleetwood look to have found their highest level at league 1, Crawley and Village Green in league 2. Manchester City may be the exception, but they climbed (cheated, if you see it that way) before financial rules came into being.
Eventually the rich kids will get bored of Salford and they'll settle at league 1 if they're lucky, more likely league 2. I find it hard to take them seriously, but it doesn't bother me too much -  there are bigger things to worry about.


I think the best example of flouting the pre-FFP environment is Bournemouth, a historically smaller club than us who could never have made it to the Premier League ‘organically’.

That doesn’t mean you can’t admire the job Eddie Howe did in taking them all the way from the bottom tier to the top (with his little sabbatical at Burnley in between) - they spent what they spent incredibly effectively. But what they spent was nevertheless way above their natural means.



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I think the best example of flouting the pre-FFP environment is Bournemouth, a historically smaller club than us who could never have made it to the Premier League ‘organically’.

That doesn’t mean you can’t admire the job Eddie Howe did in taking them all the way from the bottom tier to the top (with his little sabbatical at Burnley in between) - they spent what they spent incredibly effectively. But what they spent was nevertheless way above their natural means.



Yep. Bournemouth were serial offenders* when it came to spending money they didn’t have.

* and I don’t mean they kept nicking cornflakes


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