Turkeys did not vote for Christmas shock

Southbank

So the Championship clubs have voted against their own Fair Play spending rules,leaving RD's spending strategy up the creek.
The club's statement in response effectively says we will operate at a commercial disadvantage in a hugely competitive league.

MrLargo

http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/20141111-cfo-responds-to-ffp-amendments-2076932.aspx?

ForeverAddickted

Good that the club have released a Statement in regards to the changes and am not surprised to hear we were against it...

Trouble is it seems that the Championship FFP spending rules will now be continuously pushed back as clubs want to be able to be able to spend more and more money each year, this'll give the impression that they're trying to comply with rules yet because of the tightness on spending they'll claim its restricting their ability to compete, ironically I can see the clubs pushing for continuous extensions eventually going into Administration etc... and they'll be blaming the Football League for their plight.

Shame... This was one occasion when the majority of clubs should have stayed strong on this

Wheresmeticket

Well I hope the clubs that have voted for this go bust and have to start again from the bottom of the pyramid as community-owned Sunday league teams of overweight 50 yr olds.

Oggy Red

Wheresmeticket? said:

Well I hope the clubs that have voted for this go bust and have to start again from the bottom of the pyramid as community-owned Sunday league teams of overweight 50 yr olds.

You might even get a game there, WMTicket.


Seriously, it needed just a couple of seasons of cloth cutting while clubs got their affairs in order.

A small chance of short term success more important than long term survival.

Rizzo

Looks to me like the smaller clubs have basically been bullied into it by the threat of removal/reduction of the solidarity payments.

LargeAddick

I've never really felt that FFP is viable. Surely it's a restraint of trade. I wouldn't think it would stand up to scrutiny by the EC if a Club were prepared to take it that far. However, I think we are doing the right thing.

kentaddick

LargeAddick said:

I've never really felt that FFP is viable. Surely it's a restraint of trade. I wouldn't think it would stand up to scrutiny by the EC if a Club were prepared to take it that far. However, I think we are doing the right thing.

if you call not spending so much you go out of business a restraint..

hudson-son-son

Well it's good to stand up to it but at the same time, it is easier for us to have lower losses on transfers in than other teams because of the loanees from Standard Liege so a lower limit to losses gives us a competitive advantage over the rest of the division...

killerandflash

The current rules still apply for 2013/14 and 2014/15, and by the summer of 2015 we'll either be in the Premier League anyway or just relegated with fat parachute payments!

soapy_jones

Level playing field?

Never, not in the history of this planet anyway!

colthe3rd

"Yeah lets have FFP but we'll set it at a level that the biggest clubs currently have, it's the only fair way."

Lincsaddick

killerandflash said:

The current rules still apply for 2013/14 and 2014/15, and by the summer of 2015 we'll either be in the Premier League anyway or just relegated with fat parachute payments!

like it .. positive finking

Covered End

The Football League seem to be adopting EU principles.
If you don't get the vote you want first time, then keep having votes until you do.
3rd vote in the last 6 months. An absolute disgrace IMO.

Wheresmeticket

Oggy Red said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Well I hope the clubs that have voted for this go bust and have to start again from the bottom of the pyramid as community-owned Sunday league teams of overweight 50 yr olds.

You might even get a game there, WMTicket.

Only if I can go in goal so I can drink beer and smoke a fag while youre scoring up the other end, OR.

IA

Rizzo said:

Looks to me like the smaller clubs have basically been bullied into it by the threat of removal/reduction of the solidarity payments.

Spot on in my opinion.

Every time the PL wants something from the Football League, they threaten to remove the solidarity payments. I wonder if it's near time for Football League clubs to finally break from this dependence.

Any ideas on which other clubs voted no? I'd guess at Blackpool, Brighton and maybe Leeds.

timken

problem is if you go bust your debts are extinguished and you end up second in the premier league.Maybe the mistake we made is not following southamptons example 4 years ago when they went into administration.