Summer transfer thread 2012

[Vermilion]

Oscar (Internacional) to Chelsea for £25m. From BBC News ticker.

FFP?!

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

FFP?!

They reportedly earned £40m for winning the CL

Drogba
Anelka
Kalou
Bosingwa

All already off the wage bill with Malouda likely to follow.. I don't think they'd be as far off as many think.

[Vermilion]

They reportedly earned £40m for winning the CL

Drogba
Anelka
Kalou
Bosingwa

All already off the wage bill with Malouda likely to follow.. I don't think they'd be as far off as many think.

Fair point, although i get the feeling they'd have spent big anyway, Champs league win or not.

[RedReet]

They reportedly earned £40m for winning the CL

Drogba
Anelka
Kalou
Bosingwa

All already off the wage bill with Malouda likely to follow.. I don't think they'd be as far off as many think.

But they would have received the majority of that for reaching the later stages anyway which I'm sure they would have already factored for as they would have expected to get there.

[spanky]

those fair play rules are a joke, none of the big teams are paying any attention to them

[kingfunk]

We need more back up, or injury could ruin our season.

[~LFCHistory~]

those fair play rules are a joke, none of the big teams are paying any attention to them

Only City, Chelsea and PSG are flaunting the rules, everyone else including us seems to be following the guidelines, it's early days so let's just wait and see if the rules are enforced before declaring them a joke.

[Vermilion]

Only City, Chelsea and PSG are flaunting the rules, everyone else including us seems to be following the guidelines, it's early days so let's just wait and see if the rules are enforced before declaring them a joke.

First step of enforcing them will probably be something like a warning, and then more time..?

[Leyton388]

The FFP rules will be about as effective as a UN resolution on Syria.

[peekay]

Only City, Chelsea and PSG are flaunting the rules, everyone else including us seems to be following the guidelines, it's early days so let's just wait and see if the rules are enforced before declaring them a joke.

Several clubs wont meet the rules. Juventus reported record losses last year and the way they are investing in players and their wages, I dont think losses will decrease sufficiently.

I think the first round of FFP enforcement will be warnings only with restrictions to reducing the losses by a specific amount.

[MrMichael]

Napoli's president:

“PSG cannot just go around buying everyone. If there is to be the Financial Fair Play rule, then I don’t understand how Michel Platini can justify certain clubs ignoring it"

[REDSCOUSER]

Cos Platini is a bent french frog so he'll probs exempt a few clubs to suit his agenda.

To think he will be running for the next FIFA elections.

[MrMichael]

I wonder if a few of the clubs know that its unworkable and have just decided to ignore it. Either against some sort of trade / EU laws, or that there's huge loopholes they just won't be able to close with clubs able to claim sponsorship deals at many times the going rate from companies linked to their owners, like City did with their stadium sponsorship. Probably in the end FPP will hurt the smaller / more reasonable clubs who aren't able to pull such stunts.

While Platini doesn't even try to hide his biases, FIFA really are a joke whoever is in charge. As are most sports governing bodies. Boxing anyone? Formula 1?

[baitman]

maybe, some european free trade small print.

im sure the cash rich clubs lawyers will have been all over every possible loop hole

[colin85]

Article on ibra, Psg , chairman.

http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/07/18/soccer-star-zlatan-ibrahimovic-joins-psg-and-qatari-owners-business-empire/