FFP

[garyellis]

Our owners have always wanted a long term sustainable model.
I think their gripe is not having no rules but outdated ones.

[dave.woodhall]

Probably not, no. But if other clubs got into debt, then that would be. That's what the rules were supposed to prevent. So why haven't they got any rules against debt, only straitjacket policies that prevent speculating to accumulate?

Anyone considered an online influencer is a twat. It's been scientifically proven.

And Dave wasn't being serious.

Were we influencers back in the days when anyone listened to us?

[Stu]

These rules haven’t stopped loads of clubs from going out of business either. Presumably these rules were voted in because it was in clubs’ interest to one degree or another, but the only real reason clubs will succeed or fail is due to ownership.

[cdbearsfan]

They were voted in by the European Club Association. Only the already established elite (at the time) were allowed a vote. They voted to prevent anyone being able to outspend them again.

[AV82EC]

They were voted in by the European Club Association. Only the already established elite (at the time) were allowed a vote. They voted to prevent anyone being able to outspeed them again.

This is true. We’re an associate member now I think.

[Monty]

Man Utd, Barcelona etc put me in mind of a deadbeat fop living off credit he gets because of the family name.

[Sexual Ealing]

Our situation is more like a credulous middle-manager agreeing to a street fight, assuming it's going to be Queensberry Rules, and then moaning when his opponents turn up with machetes and bike chains.

[kippaxvilla2]

They were voted in by the European Club Association. Only the already established elite (at the time) were allowed a vote. They voted to prevent anyone being able to outspeed them again.

They did it so fast.

[Toronto Villa]

What’s shit is that we couldn’t offer Tielemans a new contract because of FFP. Yet he can sign for a side colossally in debt instead.

[Dogtanian]

Pretty sure we did offer him one, didn't we?

[cdbearsfan]

Team billions in debt able to sign one of our star players after our best season in forty-four years. Rules doing exactly what they were intended to do.

But we mustn't moan. Lie back and take it, we're only Villa and we should know our place.

[Toronto Villa]

Pretty sure we did offer him one, didn't we?

What’s been suggested is that we wanted to offer a new deal and couldn’t finalize it until we knew what we had to play with financially. Man U nipped in.

https://xcancel.com/j_tanswell/status/2076605323490505089?s=46

[Sexual Ealing]

'I've been waiting six years to get invited to this orgy and all that's happening is people fucking each other. Why will nobody look at my etchings?!'

[cdbearsfan]

Erm, okay.

[kippaxvilla2]

Why are Spurs being allowed to spend so much?!