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:thumbsup: Gerald: "How do we stop clubs like Portsmouth, Croydon and Leeds going bust and causing us aggravation?" Derek: "I'm not really sure I'm not a financial man, can't we just tell them they mustn't lose money?" Gerald: "Good idea, another G&T?"

I couldn't agree more - talk about draining money out of football from the clubs that need it the most! They could even go to monthly management accounts and if it were found they were frigging them when year end submissions were made they really get dumped on. Even with quarterly submissions...

True. But I'm also (partly) aligned to the comments of Blue Valkyrie above. Even though it was a FL voted in thing "we've" shot a frigging huge great big hole in our foot. A third or more of the teams in the same league have a massive advantage over the others for no better reason than the...

We are competing against parachute money and FFP only makes the gap wider. I fully accept and agree TB doesn't want to continually chuck his money down a deep hole but if he did, or if others did then they should be able to, as indeed they could with any other business. And it is about debt...

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I'm aware FFP limits a clubs loss ... it has nothing to do with debt. Debt normally requires a schedule of repayment which will then led to inevitable loss if revenue isn't sufficient but debt can easily be deferred, assets secured etc Suggesting racking up...

I used "investment" tongue in cheek. In my view there is a very good case that can be made to allow clubs to be funded by wealthy investors should they so chose and as long as it's done with good governence, such as ensuring that any commitments taken on such as players contracts are covered by...

Does FFP prevent a club from racking up massive deferred debt, or taking on forward commitments that it might not be able to fulfill? I may well be wrong but I don't think it does either, in which case FFP doesn't guarantee much at all (other than perhaps limiting much needed "investment"...

In the context of limiting what he is putting in. Of course he's pumped in gazillions but I doubt he's ever been up for continually putting in the sorts of sums he has these past few years. FFP gives him some sort of ceiling ... he would likely do it anyway and so I think FFP is largely...

Agree with both your last two posts. Personally I don't see FFP sticking and it will be challenged ad infinitum. There are clubs that adhere to FFP because they have no choice because they can't find sugar daddies to pump money in, so easy for them to take the moral high ground. TB, I suspect...