Zack Steffen Appreciation

Oh and
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/...errer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s

 

That is one way of saving yourself from humiliation in Europe.

 

KHT

 

Ah, yes, Financial Fair Play, also known as the Big Club Protection Scheme With Showy Occasional "Punishments".

 

Yeah how stupid people trying to save football from just being billionaires vanity projects.

Enjoy your domestic treble though your oil daddy bought you. I hope it was worth your soul.

 

...by ensuring that model will continue!

 

Some day oil prices will drop. Man City will go back to being a mid table team where they belong. They could not even sell out a Champions League semifinal.

 

Jack, you should have your mom explain the term "unintended consequences" to you sometime after naptime one day.

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/SBM-03-2018-0025?journalCode=sbm

 

From your own link. The results show a statistically significant decline in competitive balance post-FFP for leagues in Spain, Germany and France but not for England and Italy.

Regardless Man City broke the rules (read cheated) and should be punished.

 

Oil prices (inflation-adjusted) cratered the year after City was purchased in 2008. They haven't recovered to the 2008 level since and are currently about 40% of that level now, just above the low in 2016.

 

This must be yours I found it on you soul.

 

There was no strong correlation for England. I fail to see how that supports either one of our arguments. However the correlation for the other big leagues is sort of a problem for yours.

 

FFP has not really been enforced. And I do not support FFP for competitiveness reasons. I support it to help limit inflationary pressures to avoid football being turned into an asset bubble.

 

Okay?

Weird how my support for City predating Mansour makes me soulless.

 

Oh, so when The Right Men are in charge, it will work perfectly...

 

Read the rest of my post.

 

It's one sentence.

Oh, you ********ing back-edited.

Ass.

 

And I do not support FFP for competitiveness reasons. I support it to help limit inflationary pressures to avoid football being turned into an asset bubble.

 

And how well has that worked? I mean, they instituted it in 2011 for ********'s sake, and player transfer fees at the top end have only exploded.

 

Because it has not been well enforced. And the fees have exploded because of oil money pouring in.

 

You keep putting your faith in Top Men.

Meanwhile, FFP will make the long-rumored Super League happen even faster.

Even the warmed-over socialist-friendly hosts of the Football Show on Sirius understand that it's bad for the game.

 

I would love nothing more then these big money clubs to break away and forum the euro NFL. That would be the fastest way to restore competitive balance for the rest of Europe.

 

Also ironic that a Rangers fan is complaining about "competitive balance", and does so by denigrating the league that has made that concept it's very identity since the merger.

 

Which pairing is that? Otamendi & Kompany? Stones and Laporte? Laporte & Otamendi? Otamendi & Stones? Fernandinho and anyone? Kompany & Stones? Mangala and <fill in the blank>? All of those have been combinations this year, and several of those over the last 14.

You're high.