Is FFP good for club football?

[stanistheman]

One could argue that if clubs were required to live within their means, then none would be allowed to make a loss.

Quite possibly, one of the worst thought out pieces of football legislation I can imagine has ever happened.

this. how many of these clubs have lived within their means? Chelsea made huge losses for a number of seasons whilst they grew as are Man City now. Yet an example of how it fails is how the FL rules are punishing the likes of Forest and want to with QPR.

If strict FFP rules where almost zero tolerance to losses had been in place, We would never have seen the likes of Blackburn Chelsea and Man City winning the Premier League, just Man Utd and Arsenal. How interesting would the league be if that had been the case?

[winalotto]

In theory its a good idea but its impossible to implement

[stationcafe]

I don't think so, it stops clubs progressing.

But having said that, outside of the elite money doesn't rule everything. Look at a club like Sevilla, their budget is probably a fraction of most Premiership teams, yet they'd comfortably beat 90% of them. Same for Atletico Madrid, Lyon, Roma etc./

Money can buy success to a certain extent, but you need to spend it wisely. Man City have been splashing out but buying a lot of overpriced crap. Right now there is truly more money than sense in English football. Villa just spent 14M on Jordan Ayew, who is an absolute donkey, they could've found a better player for 20% of that if they'd done their homework.

[West London is Rss]

I think its good for football and is a good idea BUT there are currently a lot of loopholes which should of been tidied up before putting FFP live.

[Olly]

But clubs are allowed to make small losses relevant to their league. Chelsea and Man C got in well while it was still being sorted out, but Man C got hammered with limited transfer budget and reduced CL squad last season. Our relegation limit argument was won, Championship losses can now be bigger, £39m over 3 seasons, instead of £5m or £8m per season, it's work in progress.