I have no idea what questionable deals Utd or Chelsea have done and I have no idea whether you'll be better off with Usmanov but ultimately the best you can hope for is spending all the money the club generates rather than that money sitting in the account.
Arsenal FC - A complete shambles. What needs to change? *Please read OP before posting*
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Wow, you manage to contradict yourself about 100 times in 1 post.
You say it's easy to get around FFP but you acknowledge that PSG & City were sanctioned by UEFA. You say that every club knew on day 1 how to get around FFP but again, you acknowledge that PSG & City were sanctioned by UEFA.
Can club owners use their own or related companies to sponsor themselves? Yes but as we've seen UEFA will bring the value down to a fair market value*. City & PSG tried to get around FFP initially but failed - they were sanctioned and we saw that their spending the following season was directly effected.
We still don't know whether PSG have figured out a way to get around FFP but there are theories that they've managed to sign Neymar by Qatar sponsoring him directly rather than sponsoring PSG and they in turn paying for him. Who knows, if or how they've got around it - what's clear is that any way of getting around it only applies to the state owned clubs like PSG & City, your average billionaire will find it too expensive to do.
*PSG's deal wasn't simply a shirt sponsor so you can't compare it to the value of another clubs shirt agreement.
And you know this how? Why was it being reported that without selling Sanchez, even after banking £35m for Ox, that Arsenal didn't have any money to spend?
I have absolutely no idea if Wenger can or can't spend that money but as I've said, there are people in finance that have speculated that the terms Kroenke's personal borrowings are or will be directly linked to the state of Arsenal's balance sheet. This certainly wouldn't be uncommon, as I've shown the Glazers had (may still do too) a very similar agreement in place with their borrowings and Utd's finances. Again though, I don't know this for certain (I suspect neither do you), it's just a theory as to why Arsenal have kept their cash levels incredible high over the last few years.
Yes, they were sanctioned therefore everybody didn't know how to get around FFP from day 1 as you said or else they wouldn't have been sanctioned. The sanctions put on them restricted what they could spend the following years too so they weren't just a slap on the wrist.
Anyway, as above lets get this thread back on topic and keep it to discussing the structure of the club not FFP or Nigerian billionaires.
I've been very busy over the last week so haven't been keeping up with what's going on but I'm pretty sure there's no prospect of Wenger leaving any time before the end of the season. If this is just going to be a fairytale next manager thread then it's probably best closing it.
I know, hence why I said you're treading a fine line and reminded everybody what this thread is for. I knew the way the posts were going that it was only a matter of time before all that people would be talking about was transfers and I'd rather prevent members from crossing that line than handing out strikes, especially to you seeing as you're on strike 2 already.
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