re: FFP - Man City and PSG Punishment

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but they're still "debt free"

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Due to shirt and stadium deals with their owner, thats not how it works

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show me a major team competing in the CL who relies primarily on their academy other than Barca (who is an extreme historical outlier, even for Barca)

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Its how lots of clubs are built

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and Man City just started investing in their academy. they'll possibly see results...in 5-10 years, and that's a crap shoot. don't place irrational expectations upon them and act like it's some normal standard

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shite should be less than that, their U-21 made it to the EPL semi's. With the other big boys.

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of course they have. these rules basically make it impossible for a team like Man City to compete with the major teams

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Chelsea was not breaking FFP rules

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that's the point of FFP. if you were an established mega club at the inception of FFP, you are protected. any other club who wants to spend money to close the gap will be punished, preventing htem from making it to that level

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City has been at this since 2008 but only the last two years count against them. Clearly they don't care and a 50 million fine is a drop in the bucket to them.

FFP forces teams to spend responsibly and build infrastructure if they want to become a mega club.

There have been so many cases of clubs who are ruined do to out of control spending.