As far as spending goes what must be remembered is that for either a club being rich because their history has dictated that they have massive amounts of followers clubs like United and Liverpool and this makes them rich enough to not be affected by cv19 problems
You then have the clubs that are owned by either Russian oligarchs or uber rich Arabs with untold wealth this being Chelsea and Man City
But now you have the newly rich clubs who have owners with almost limitless cash to spend like Wolves and Everton and Leicester even the Sheffield United owners are now richer than we are ref owners soon to be joined by another club to be owned by a country Newcastle .
That makes 8 clubs in a better position financially .
The face of football at the top has changed forever gone are the days when you earned your financial security via success on the field of play or by prudent management (spurs ) . Unless you can find some person or country that wants a football club as a play thing or as a means to
Sportswash their credibility which in the case of the Arab owners is just the very tip of human rights violation regarding payment to workers or safety regulations which seeing as these workers that are treated so badly are mostly asian from the poorest parts of India; China ;North Korea ;Thailand and the rest of the poor from sin country . Of course this is exploitation and also Racism but seeing as Racism in todays climate seems to be selective . Note Raheem Sterlings stance on racism but he is quite happy to ignore his paymasters racism like I say selective racism . I have just realised I am rambling on and on so I had better shut my gob .
Totally disagree.
Wolves, Sheffield United, Everton, even Chelsea in fact all clubs have been abiding by FFP (apart from Manchester City with their still to be proved inflated deals).
Why other clubs seemingly have improved compared to us over the years is because they spend up to what FFP has allowed them to.
We had a surplus of some £400m for FFP purposes over the last 3 seasons, because we chose profits over improving the squad.
The stadium build is really red herring, we could easily have spent £200m plus on players and borrowed more against stadium, or chosen to have spent £300m less on building stadium, but it was a vanity project as much as anything, but be clear on something, it was club decisions not to spend on players, rather than being in any way financially handicapped.
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