Leicester in trouble

The_Big_Woodowski said:
I think it’s because there the 20 premiership clubs as one organisation and the 72, others.

I believe lester’s argument is they can’t be docked point by the EFL this year because all offences where in the EPL (I hate these TLA’s).

Also when QPR, Lester, Villa, Wolves all won promotion if memory is correct the EPL refused to sanction a point deduction because it occurred in the EPL.

They all received fines for these breaches of FFP
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The EFL should change the rules so that any club getting promoted via cheating has a suspended punishment applied and when they get relegated they return to the EFL in league 2.
 
They’re doing their best to throw this away like aren’t they?

1 - 0 down to Bristol currently.
 
It’s interesting to see how this goes.

There’s a side who a few years ago seriously put the big boys noses out of joint, and the only way they could stay there was to overspend.

Now I agree that it shouldn’t be allowed and that they deserve some form of punishment but isn’t this more if a wider problem within football, those that want to compete have to cheat?
 
I was talking about this yesterday but not specifically Leicester City. It seems that FFP is basically a protectionist system for the top ten or so Premier League teams. In the past (including us on a far smaller scale 20-30 years ago) smaller teams could invest heavily to try and break into the upper echelons but if they try it now they end up with a points deduction, having to sell their best assets and usually relegation so can’t be done anymore.
 
Train Man said:
I was talking about this yesterday but not specifically Leicester City. It seems that FFP is basically a protectionist system for the top ten or so Premier League teams. In the past (including us on a far smaller scale 20-30 years ago) smaller teams could invest heavily to try and break into the upper echelons but if they try it now they end up with a points deduction, having to sell their best assets and usually relegation so can’t be done anymore.
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It’s an interesting point but didn’t FFP start from Platini when he was leading UEFA? I seem to remember him hating the new found financial clout of English clubs and wanted to restrict it. Ironically, it wasn’t long after that PSG became exactly the same as Man City and Newcastle.
 
I'm a bit torn on this as on the one hand - a team should be able to do what they need to do to compete .. but then .. doesn't just become a competition of who has the richest owner?

And if Leicester were allowed to spend what they wanted to try and bridge the gap .. then what's to stop Man City then spending 2 billion on players to maintain the gap?
 
FFP is a catch 22 situation. Whilst it stops teams spending more than they can afford (aka portsmouth) it really does monopolise and give the top clubs even more of an advantage.
 
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