Our FFP position appears to have got much worse since purslow left
No it hasn’t. It’s actually improved. It’s our SCR position which has got worse.
No it hasn't. SCR didn't exist until recently and it came in just as we threw the kitchen sink at getting into the European places so we failed it in the first year it applied to us and we've improved our position significantly in the 2nd year. It's just bad timing for us that it became a concern whilst we were in a speculation phase and had geared everything to operating on the limit of FFP/PSR.
I think it all stems from us coming up with a 6 (?) player squad. We had to send big twice - once to have a squad at all, then again to get players who were anything like the quality we needed to stay up for any length of time. That expenditure meant when FFP started to properly kick in the following season we’ve had to spend our entire time trying to work with that. FFP seems to prioritise low transfer fees over low wages, so we’ve signed players for low transfer fees and high wages. Then we’ve qualified for Europe whilst we’re still wrangling with FFP, and the more complex SCR which does take wages in to account has bitten us, with UEFA’s penalties for that putting us in a straight jacket.
Think we have to accept that we’re in this straight jacket, but it’s not going to be forever.
