Opinions? Is financial disparity increasing? If so, does this pose a problem for football? If so, what should be done against it?
Uh, what? How would your plan work?
Exactly.
UEFA and the various other footballing associations, so they could make a few bucks out of the game, rather than resorting to taking bribes.
It's a good idea but it's impossible to implement.
Pretty much everything is governed by someone/something. Weird that you think only states are governed when, in reality, every literally meaningfully activity is.
Everyone should shit themselves thinking of that. It's a moronic concept.
Agreed, absolutely despise the idea.
I agree that UEFA is in a strategic position from which it would struggle to pull this off, but don't understand the "rightfully so". Aside from the reality of the big clubs' power to block this, can't see what's wrong with the idea.
It is, but I suppose it's a threat. As stupid as the concept is.
Good point actually.
Definitely not to a slush fund...
That taxing clubs just because they are rich is wrong? The concept in itself is idiotic which encourages not becoming richer and richer but instead waiting for the, what would be, welfare cheques in football. And that's even without going into such details as how such money would later on be spent/who would be the most beneficiary from it, on what basis, etc.
What did Lentini go for? What year? That's a serious question.
Exactly. Double standards.
It it depends whether you think that sports are to some extent about teams competing on an even playing field, or if you get more enjoyment from tracking the fortunes of the playing arms of leading competitors in the global sports market. Each to their own.
Don't see how this bit is an objection - presumably these kinds of details could be agreed and specified in the policy.
I'm a bit to young to fully remember that one, but yeah considering the likes of Cole coming to us for something like £7m a few years later was deemed a hell of a lot of money, Lentini was a ridiculous amount.
1992. When there was one team from each country in the Champions League and the gap between the richest clubs and the rest wasn't as cavernous as it is today.
They haven't abolished FFP.
If I remember right it was over 10 million. That was obscene. Uefa didn't give a shit then.
My point is that financial inequality has been rampant through Europe for over twenty years. First with Italy. Then with Spain.
I do wonder sometimes if there is some sort of game of thrones type skullduggery with allegiances compromising of certain clubs or groups of clubs and the ruling bodies
Italian clubs were hurt the most by FFP.
They could have affordable ticket prices right now if they wanted to. Player's wages is not what is stopping them.
Well said.
FFP is only recent.
I don't know enough about the internal politics of UEFA to know if Italian or Spanish FA power was the obstacle in the past, but if so, so what? If it makes things fairer (which it seems like it would) and would be possible to implement (which maybe it wouldn't - hard to judge the will of clubs to actually break away from UEFA/FIFA in retaliation) you can't just keep refusing to take action now because you never took action in the past. Following that principle you would never change anything.
