More proof that UEFA are corrupt - wonder how much this cost, and who’s received the brown envelopes..... a fu(king sham.
I agree, otherwise how can other clubs break the deadlock of the establishment who have been backed to the hilt by UEFA.FPP needs scrapping
Gutted Superrangers isn't on here anymore to let us know his feelings about the ruling.....
Agreed they were going to be banned yet other clubs Man U for example are £500m in debt. I follow neither club but to me this was a decision by UEFA that looked like an attack on a club whilst others were ignored.Brilliant news. Victory for football
Brilliant news.
Chances are now we dont have to watch Brenda in the Champions League
Didn’t realise that until you posted what happened?Gutted Superrangers isn't on here anymore to let us know his feelings about the ruling.....
Probably makes it sweeter considering how easy it’s been for Liverpool this season against a cheating club.You just know this had ruined Liverpool winning the league for him
a hope Leicester take 4th place and draw the mentally challengeds and Brenda knocks them out
Mad that a team who have cheated are still 21 points behind the league leaders.
FPP needs scrapping
FFP is a farce in all honesty and rather than creating ''Fair Play'', it's actually protecting a select, elite number of clubs and making it impossible for clubs outside of the little elite bubble break into it. Rangers could get the richest owner in the world yet we still wouldn't be able to compete for the CL because these rules would hold us back from investing in the players that would get us competing at the elite level of the game.
Owners should be allowed to spend as much of their own money as they want in the businesses they operate.
Man City have been a Club without a soul for years they are in a false position in the history of the English game sadly that's what money does. We are always wanting to get to the Premiership but if it meant selling out our support would it be worth it,Rangers are bigger than most Clubs but the stature of a Club now is really based on how much money that they can earn its all to do with the luck of what Country they are in.Were my favourite English team growing up as my Uncle moved there and followed them but can't stand them now.
New stadium, new badge and buying their way to anything they want.
And it’s always been thus.I used to have this debate with superrangers, who basically didn’t want anyone challenging or threatening to make life more difficult for his own club. Essentially these clubs have no chance of elevating themselves to the top and staying there if they don’t get cash injections from rich sugar daddies. Otherwise you just can’t break dominance of the already established, financially powerful clubs who continue to generate more and more money each year to keep themselves where they are.
I’m sure if Rangers joined the Premier League and finished around mid table or lower for a few seasons and then suddenly a rich investor comes in ready to propel us upwards and make us title challengers, I’m sure everyone would be absolutely up in arms about that and that they’d directly oppose it....
CAS say that UEFA appear to have doctored evidence against city?
HoW many other clubs have had evidence doctored to fit their charges?
Probably makes it sweeter considering how easy it’s been for Liverpool this season against a cheating club.
FFP is a farce in all honesty and rather than creating ''Fair Play'', it's actually protecting a select, elite number of clubs and making it impossible for clubs outside of the little elite bubble break into it. Rangers could get the richest owner in the world yet we still wouldn't be able to compete for the CL because these rules would hold us back from investing in the players that would get us competing at the elite level of the game.
Owners should be allowed to spend as much of their own money as they want in the businesses they operate.
Of course UEFA have previous here. Didn't a certain club on Merseyside get let off twice for breaching FFP ?UEFA shat it basically.
Guilty but only enough for a fine, absolute joke.
Exactly..10 million fine but they are innocentMoney talks
Which helped them get where they are now.The alleged breaches in regulations were from 2012-2016, so was years ago.
They wouldn't be paying any sort of fine if that was actually true, the case would just be thrown out.
There'll be a few nice bonuses being paid this year.The teams in the big countries can do whatever they want.
£10m fine to UEFA apparently
And it’s always been thus.
Whereas back at the turn of the 20th century it was wealthy mill owners and textile merchants who pumped money into clubs through to the ‘fairytale’ story of local boy done good Jack Walkers steel empire funded Blackburn Rovers in the 90s, successful teams have relied on an injection of cash from somewhere to get them over the final hurdle or cement their place at the top.
Instead of local merchants and business owners it’s now Middle Eastern consortiums, American venture capitalist groups or - the most dubious and if you are so inclined distasteful and abhorrent of the lot given how they likely accumulated their wealth - Russian and Chinese oligarchs/kleptocrats.
I wouldn’t say the morals and ethics of the US based venture capitalist group are that far removed from the government investment front groups of the Petroleum-states to make them beacons of light, transparency and fairness either
Completely agree - UEFA are saying only clubs with lots of fans and big tv deals should be able to win our premier competitions. What’s wrong if some rich folk want to fling all their money to have a different team get to the top! I’d just prefer it if it was a smaller nation you seen getting there to have more variety. Champions league is just the same teams and players over and over, I find it rather boring.FPP is a nonsense anyway. if a billionaire wants to pump gazillions into football, then let them. as long as its money and not debt. the real people to watch are the likes of the glaziers who are sucking money out of football
Gives them the chance to bottle it in the quarter or semi finals next season.
The alleged breaches in regulations were from 2012-2016, so was years ago.
Sensible for it to be overturned, FFP is a joke.
If someone wants to fire billions into a club then crack on, if UEFA were interested in financial parity then CL and Europa League money would be an equal split based on participation rather than the bias they have in their breakdown
Money talks
Pink Floyd were right. Money, it’s a gas.
There does, but not with sugar daddies who are spending their own cash. This rule should be to protect the clubs against utter charlatans like what happened to us, not genuine billionaires who are improving their club, not harming it.In theory I think it's right. There has to be some sort of legislation around finances. However, that only works if it's actually enforced.
Not only the two best coaches in the world, the two most gif-able (I invented the word) coaches in the world. Their expressions are gold.
If a billionaire came in and wanted to invest almost unlimited cash with no danger whatsoever to the club then you would consider giving up being a bear.You're right in a lot of these but the situation we now find ourselves in football is utterly unprecedented.
Carefully cultivated Victorian clubs - formed as recreational pastimes for navvies, bored young boys, disaffected youths, factory workers, whatever, and who in some cases still serve as important pillars of their communities - now find themselves being used as husks by some of the most abhorrent regimes in the world today, simply as an expensive sportwashing regime that attempts to portray their country in anything other than a brilliant light. It's utterly appalling.
They'd be plenty of guys donning the Arab headgear if some rich Middle East sugar daddy decided Rangers were on his list but on that case I think I'd give serious thought as to whether I'd be back to support a club formed by four young boys being used as an advertisement for some awful little country out in Asia.
How can a Rangers fan - a team whose chances of ever reaching the Champions' League group stages are difficult, never mind getting out of it and into the later stages - really encourage such financial abandon after everything that's happened to us in the last ten years? That's a mental idea.
FFP is meant to - and it's not always successful, though - protect clubs from their own owners. What football fan in the world today wouldn't want to see their owners act more carefully and come under a form of regulation?