Leicester on the fiddle

CHAPPERS · Apr 11, 2016

Not happy with playing the system in their administration years that basically paid off their stadium and allowed them to keep their Premiership squad in the Championship a few years before, Leicester have now been fiddling sponsorship deals to beat FFP.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ball-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

Looks well shady.

Apologies if fixtures.

Notters · Apr 11, 2016

Oh but that can't be right, they're the darlings of English football who can do no wrong. Everyone loves them and it shall always be so.

KZNSeagull · Apr 11, 2016

What a surprise. It's about time this and the matter of QPR's outstanding fines are resolved once and for all.

Horton's halftime iceberg · Apr 11, 2016

Been telling anyone that will listen about their FFP fiddle that got them up, a lot of Spurs fans interested but thats been about it. Not like they have done it on a shoe string

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...will-they-be-derailed-by-FFP-regulations.html

Thunder Bolt · Apr 11, 2016

It was well known at the time, but the Football League are toothless.

Bozza · Apr 11, 2016

I had heard it mentioned that they could be excluded from the Champions' League should they quality, which they now have, due to financial skulduggery.

Horton's halftime iceberg · Apr 11, 2016

Makes a lot of other clubs efforts to comply a complete waste of effort

zeetha · Apr 11, 2016

Financial Fair Play seemed at first glance to be a good idea, but so many clubs are finding ways round it (and other League rules) and hardly anyone gets pulled up on it its turned out to be fatally flawed. Guess it shouldn't be a shocker in a world with megabucks involved...

Green Cross Code Man · Apr 11, 2016

Bozza said:
I had heard it mentioned that they could be excluded from the Champions' League should they quality, which they now have, due to financial skulduggery.

That would actually be a decent sanction.

hans kraay fan club · Apr 11, 2016

Bozza said:
I had heard it mentioned that they could be excluded from the Champions' League should they quality, which they now have, due to financial skulduggery.

UEFA would LOVE to find a reason to prevent Leicester from taking up a place that 'should' be reserved for a more marketable BIG team. Can't see it though - 'all' they are guilty of is failing FFP regs. Same as PSG and Man City - neither of whom had 'European ban' amongst their punishments. They'll get a fine, or a squad number cap, like those two got.

Horton's halftime iceberg · Apr 11, 2016

The media paints it all as Romatic small club, but the owners have spent (fiddling the books to increase spending) a lot to be where they are

Easy 10 · Apr 11, 2016

Their players are on performance-enhancing drugs as well, according to the doctor that The Times caught in that sting.

Would partially explain the "miracle" wouldn't it ?

Hotchilidog · Apr 11, 2016

Just got to show how useless the Football League are. The rules are only worthwhile if they are acted upon immediately. FFP has been a shambles from beginning to end as the rules such as they are could be circumvented by sharp practive and labyrinthine deals (or in the case of QPR two fingers just waved vigoursly in the face of the authorities).

In my opinion, having an owner waste their own money on a football club is not cheating. Going into administration and wiping out your debts without having any intention of paying creditors what they are owed is. It would have been far simpler for the league to introduce punitive penalties for going into admin (ie relegation by at least one division). This you would have thought is a far easier means of keeping teams on the straight and narrow.

Should Leicester be found guilty (and they may well be) all they will get is a fine which given Sky Tv's largesse would be nothing but loose change.

FFP was completely ill-concieved from the beginning.

Easy 10 · Apr 11, 2016

CHAPPERS said:
Not happy with playing the system in their administration years that basically paid off their stadium and allowed them to keep their Premiership squad in the Championship a few years before, Leicester have now been fiddling sponsorship deals to beat FFP.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ball-league-financial-fair-play-investigation

Looks well shady.

Apologies if fixtures.

They beat us home and away that season with their Premier League squad that they could not afford, taking 6 points off us.

We, on the other hand, were relegated, 5 points from safety.

Titanic · Apr 11, 2016

Bozza said:
I had heard it mentioned that they could be excluded from the Champions' League should they quality, which they now have, due to financial skulduggery.

Let me guess who is speaking in favour of this... Man Utd, West Ham, Southampton, Liverpool... ??

Hotchilidog · Apr 11, 2016

In my opinion Leiecster have not 'cheated' this season, should they go on to win the title the achievement belongs to those players and the manager who have achieved. They may well have shiftily bought themselves out of the championship but compared to their competitors in the Premier League they are financial small fry.

If belatedly found guilty they should pay the fine that would/should have been applied at the time.

Titanic · Apr 11, 2016

Hotchilidog said:
In my opinion Leiecster have not 'cheated' this season, should they go on to win the title the achievement belongs to those players and the manager who have achieved. They may well have shiftily bought themselves out of the championship but compared to their competitors in the Premier League they are financial small fry.

If belatedly found guilty they should pay the fine that would/should have been applied at the time.

Just watch them get hung out to dry by the 'Big boys' given half a chance :nono:

Thunder Bolt · Apr 11, 2016

Easy 10 said:
They beat us home and away that season with their Premier League squad that they could not afford, taking 6 points off us.

We, on the other hand, were relegated, 5 points from safety.

The season in the article was 13/14. The season where they wrote off all of their debts was 02/03

Hotchilidog · Apr 11, 2016

Titanic said:
Just watch them get hung out to dry by the 'Big boys' given half a chance

I fear that may well be the case.

Easy 10 · Apr 11, 2016

Thunder Bolt said:
The season in the article was 13/14. The season where they wrote off all of their debts was 02/03

I know.

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