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Uefa is to change its Financial Fair Play rules in response to Chelsea's recent trend of signing players on long-term contracts.
Signing players on extended contracts enables Chelsea to spread the player's transfer fee over the life of that deal when submitting their annual accounts.
That means £89m signing Mykhailo Mudryk will be valued at £11m a year over his eight-and-a-half-year deal.
Uefa is to set a five-year limit over which a transfer fee can be spread.
Clubs will still be able to offer longer deals under UK regulations but will not be able to stretch transfer fees beyond the first five years.
The change to FFP rules will come into force during the summer and will not apply retrospectively.
I wonder how many backhanders the ChavScum had to make so as to delay this and with no Retrospective Action???
Knew UEFA would get annoyed at this, useless cvnts but we have a common enemy here.
What it might do though is stunt their ability to spend further down the line, given they've spunked 500m already, OK they spread the cost but 10m each year into 10 players is still 100m a year for 7/8 years, they need CL sharpish or the losses will put them firmly in UEFA's sights.
Hopefully UEFA focus their anti English agenda firmly on CSKA Fulham hedge fund FC.
Uefa is to change its Financial Fair Play rules in response to Chelsea's recent trend of signing players on long-term contracts.
Signing players on extended contracts enables Chelsea to spread the player's transfer fee over the life of that deal when submitting their annual accounts.
That means £89m signing Mykhailo Mudryk will be valued at £11m a year over his eight-and-a-half-year deal.
Uefa is to set a five-year limit over which a transfer fee can be spread.
Clubs will still be able to offer longer deals under UK regulations but will not be able to stretch transfer fees beyond the first five years.
The change to FFP rules will come into force during the summer and will not apply retrospectively.
I wonder how many backhanders the ChavScum had to make so as to delay this and with no Retrospective Action???
Knew UEFA would get annoyed at this, useless cvnts but we have a common enemy here.
What it might do though is stunt their ability to spend further down the line, given they've spunked 500m already, OK they spread the cost but 10m each year into 10 players is still 100m a year for 7/8 years, they need CL sharpish or the losses will put them firmly in UEFA's sights.
Hopefully UEFA focus their anti English agenda firmly on CSKA Fulham hedge fund FC.
I guarantee Chelski will find another way around the rules. Barca inflated their income by taking up front payments on a long term media deal. Its up to UEFA to make sure Chelski don't take the piss again. The problem is the financial men behind the football clubs are smarter than the football administrators.
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()Arsenal have reportedly made Federico Chiesa their priority transfer target, for the remainder of the window @CMercatoWeb
While that would be something; we don’t need another winger, Italians usually bitch out of leaving Italy, and I can’t see us spunking the money on him, especially when we need a cm.
()Arsenal have reportedly made Federico Chiesa their priority transfer target, for the remainder of the window @CMercatoWeb
While that would be something; we don’t need another winger, Italians usually bitch out of leaving Italy, and I can’t see us spunking the money on him, especially when we need a cm.
Agree with you about our need for CM first, but Federico Chiesa is like shit-off-a-shovel and would definitely add to our Goal Tally.
I guarantee Chelski will find another way around the rules. Barca inflated their income by taking up front payments on a long term media deal. Its up to UEFA to make sure Chelski don't take the piss again. The problem is the financial men behind the football clubs are smarter than the football administrators.
Yep but that's Barca not Chavski, UEFA will be itching to punish an 'English' team.
Cvnts should be banned from Europe for 10yrs for their financial doping which continues despite the Russian gangster leaving.
()Arsenal have reportedly made Federico Chiesa their priority transfer target, for the remainder of the window @CMercatoWeb
While that would be something; we don’t need another winger, Italians usually bitch out of leaving Italy, and I can’t see us spunking the money on him, especially when we need a cm.
I’d view this as more likely a smokescreen to send people on a wild goose chase, while we quietly get on with our real target.
By the way we h a e been linked with Brighton’s Caicedo
()Arsenal have reportedly made Federico Chiesa their priority transfer target, for the remainder of the window @CMercatoWeb
While that would be something; we don’t need another winger, Italians usually bitch out of leaving Italy, and I can’t see us spunking the money on him, especially when we need a cm.
I’d view this as more likely a smokescreen to send people on a wild goose chase, while we quietly get on with our real target.
By the way we h a e been linked with Brighton’s Caicedo
We can’t / won’t sign him and Rice too, so it may well be a case of we get one and Chelsea get the other
I don’t watch much of other teams, so do all the knowledgeable folk on here have a preference and why ?
Times like this is when properly run big clubs stand out from the pack and act like they should, but it wont happen for us I'm afraid
Instead of wasting time fcuking about chasing second rate talent (rice and everton guy) or trying to negotiate with a club like brighton who are excellent at squeezing every last penny from desperate buying clubs, we should imo go in balls deep for Camavinga - reality is that madrid are gonna make huge effort to sign Bellingham in summer and Camavinga who is getting fcuk all game time now, will get even less then. Rumours today suggest that madrid are gonna offer Camavinga in the deal to sign Bellingham, so imo we should either (a) try to sign Camavinga on loan now with obligation to buy outright in the summer or (b) look under the cushions in the boardroom and scrap the money together to sign him fully now.
There are signings and there are signings that can define your club and where it is going, and for me Camavinga is a massive game changing signing - I know mudryk looked impressive in his 20 min cameo against the victims, but Camavinga would be a far better signing for AFC and if we were willing to spend 80m+ on a winger, then we shouldnt hesitate to spend it on one of the best young midfielders in world football right now. To drop our gaze from a player like him to a second rate rice would be heartbreaking - the price tags might be similar but that is where the similarities end, and no way would rice be referred to as anything above 40m if he was welsh or scottish (or if he was still Irish )
I think either Onana of Everton or Rice would be excellent signings...Camavinga would be a Brilliant signing, but I would take any one of them to help us through the remainder of the season.
I don't see the Shammesr letting Rice go till he Summer when they will have little choice and Camavinga is different gravy and it will be down to a bidding war between the numerous clubs who will want him in the Summer window.
Arsenal are 'considering' a move for Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo before the winter transfer window closes. Chelsea are also keen on the Ecuador international, who is valued at £75m [@SamJDean].
Full story on @F365:
Declan Rice is understood to be Arsenal’s top summer target, but their interest in the player is NOT expected to prevent them from trying to recruit another midfielder this month. [@SamJDean] #afc
)Arsenal have reportedly made Federico Chiesa their priority transfer target, for the remainder of the window @CMercatoWeb
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If we could get Camavinga it would be a truly excellent signing. Are you listening Edu?
Declan Rice is understood to be Arsenal’s top summer target, but their interest in the player is NOT expected to prevent them from trying to recruit another midfielder this month. [@SamJDean] #afc