Rich T The Biscuit 562 Posted May 28, 2019 7 hours ago, splendidrush said: I think Villa have escaped from the financial realities just in time. Not the case for Derby though. Which is wrong in itself. To many clubs have now done this to get up knowing full well that they will get away with it when they get promoted as the Premier League is governed by a completely separate business. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PurpleCanary 5,554 Posted May 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Rich T The Biscuit said: Which is wrong in itself. To many clubs have now done this to get up knowing full well that they will get away with it when they get promoted as the Premier League is governed by a completely separate business. This is my hobby-horse (well, one of them...) but this all comes back to the well-intentioned but badly thought-out FFP switch from a 13m loss a season to 39m over three. So clubs are gaming the new system by spending the whole 39m (or even beyond) in one season or two, gambling that they will go up at least by the end of the second season, and so won't have to face a season or two seasons still in the Championship in which they could afford to make no loss at all. The solution is in essence to go back to the old annual system, but take inflation into account a bit and raise the amount to 15m a season, with a 2m leeway, so clubs could lose 17m in the first season but then be limited to a 13m loss the next, and so on. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
