FFP

[Crown Hill]

We backed City didn’t we when they first complained about this?

[Percy McCarthy]

We backed City didn’t we when they first complained about this?

I think we did, but I haven’t been able to see how it benefits us.

[Percy McCarthy]

Loads of Man City fans on Twitter, saying ‘it literally benefits most other clubs’ without any of them being able to say how. So I asked Grok, which came up with Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Everton and Brighton. So that’s good then.

[Dante Lavelli]

It is being reported by some that the massively inflated Etihad sponsorship is allowable income, is this a fair interpretation of the agreement? If so it somewhat opens the floodgates doesn't it?

My guess is the wording of the agreement is designed to stop the floodgates from opening, however any historic breaches will not be punished. Okay for man city as their status now justifies the biggest deals, not so good if you’re lower down the food chain but have wealthy owners…

[paul_e]

It is being reported by some that the massively inflated Etihad sponsorship is allowable income, is this a fair interpretation of the agreement? If so it somewhat opens the floodgates doesn't it?

My guess is the wording of the agreement is designed to stop the floodgates from opening, however any historic breaches will not be punished. Okay for man city as their status now justifies the biggest deals, not so good if you’re lower down the food chain but have wealthy owners…

There aren't historic breaches for this though, the appeal is against new rules that were created to stop it being done again going forward. I don't think there was ever any intention to make it a retrospective punishment though.

We backed City didn’t we when they first complained about this?

I think we did, but I haven’t been able to see how it benefits us.

If it had been removed/never created I reckon we'd have seen an company pop up to look after villa live/the warehouse which would've got funding from the owners directly on top of normal earnings and all of that would go on a sponsorship deal with the club. Make them responsible for everything around the ground you can justify as 'event management' to lower the costs as much as possible (probably only saves a pittance per season but it all helps). Adding somewhere around £40-50m to our revenue with something like that could've made the last couple of seasons much easier to manage.

[Dave]

So I asked Grok, which came up with Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Everton and Brighton.

It then added "and it's all the fault of the jews and diversity".

[paul_e]

So I asked Grok, which came up with Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Everton and Brighton.

It then added "and it's all the fault of the jews and diversity".

and called itself mecha-hitler again.