Post by Macmoish on Mar 31, 2015 22:34:22 GMT
Martin Samuel - Daily Mail
Why is UEFA's Thunderbirds villain Gianni Infantino trying to kill football?
UEFA's general secretary was asked about the competitive imbalance fuelled by the Financial Fair Play rules in Vienna last month
Gianni Infantino replied: 'We have to look at how we can address this'
But UEFA should have worked this out before they passed the regulation
Surely, if no club is allowed to speculate and build through outside investment the existing elite will become stronger and unassailable
Excerpt re QPR
Take Queens Park Rangers. They are currently trying to harness the fall-out from a piece of FFP regulation so brilliantly conceived it was abandoned within a year for being unjustifiably harsh and unworkable. Yet still the Football League insist QPR must abide by it, this 12-month break from sanity, with the distinct possibility the club could be wounded permanently.
QPR are almost certain to be relegated this season, with every chance they could go down next year, too, if the Football League does its worst. There is talk of a £50million fine, perhaps a transfer embargo, and Rangers have 14 players out of contract this summer, plus another four whose loans will expire.
Yes, this is largely a crisis of the club’s own making as QPR have overspent, changed managerial regimes with harmful frequency and are paying a heavy price, literally and metaphorically. Yet their problems are made so much greater by poorly thought-out FFP rules that were retracted and rewritten as hastily as they were introduced.
And this isn’t a golden goal, affecting single games. This is legislation with the capacity to change the long-term status of a football club.
QPR could start the 2016-17 season in League One if the Football League insists on its one-off draconian measures. Plenty of clubs make mistakes, plenty get relegated as a result — but only one may be condemned to oblivion. And that is wrong. They know it’s wrong. They’ve had a think and they admit they made a mistake. But no matter. Judge now, think later, that is football’s new way.
Financial Fair Play was always going to work differently across competitions. Used as a tax on ambition, as it is in the Championship, it is likely to produce widespread mediocrity as clubs cannot adequately prepare for a Premier League existence. If Burnley, QPR and Leicester City go straight back down again, as may happen, it will reflect poorly on the League’s controls.
Equally, the thrilling finish to this season’s promotion chase could be the result of restrictions producing teams that are broadly ordinary. Nobody stands out, nobody excels. It will be interesting to see if the promoted clubs fare any better next year.
At elite level, where FFP stunts the ambition of clubs that are not already economic powerhouses, it produces the super-brands identified by Infantino.
Bayern Munich are unstoppable in Germany, 10 points clear of second place, 17 points up on third. Juventus have a lead of 14 points in Italy. The Champions League quarter-finals feature five of the same teams as last year...
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3020418/Why-UEFA-s-Thunderbirds-villain-Gianni-Infantino-trying-kill-football.html#ixzz3W0OLsKxX
Why is UEFA's Thunderbirds villain Gianni Infantino trying to kill football?
UEFA's general secretary was asked about the competitive imbalance fuelled by the Financial Fair Play rules in Vienna last month
Gianni Infantino replied: 'We have to look at how we can address this'
But UEFA should have worked this out before they passed the regulation
Surely, if no club is allowed to speculate and build through outside investment the existing elite will become stronger and unassailable
Excerpt re QPR
Take Queens Park Rangers. They are currently trying to harness the fall-out from a piece of FFP regulation so brilliantly conceived it was abandoned within a year for being unjustifiably harsh and unworkable. Yet still the Football League insist QPR must abide by it, this 12-month break from sanity, with the distinct possibility the club could be wounded permanently.
QPR are almost certain to be relegated this season, with every chance they could go down next year, too, if the Football League does its worst. There is talk of a £50million fine, perhaps a transfer embargo, and Rangers have 14 players out of contract this summer, plus another four whose loans will expire.
Yes, this is largely a crisis of the club’s own making as QPR have overspent, changed managerial regimes with harmful frequency and are paying a heavy price, literally and metaphorically. Yet their problems are made so much greater by poorly thought-out FFP rules that were retracted and rewritten as hastily as they were introduced.
And this isn’t a golden goal, affecting single games. This is legislation with the capacity to change the long-term status of a football club.
QPR could start the 2016-17 season in League One if the Football League insists on its one-off draconian measures. Plenty of clubs make mistakes, plenty get relegated as a result — but only one may be condemned to oblivion. And that is wrong. They know it’s wrong. They’ve had a think and they admit they made a mistake. But no matter. Judge now, think later, that is football’s new way.
Financial Fair Play was always going to work differently across competitions. Used as a tax on ambition, as it is in the Championship, it is likely to produce widespread mediocrity as clubs cannot adequately prepare for a Premier League existence. If Burnley, QPR and Leicester City go straight back down again, as may happen, it will reflect poorly on the League’s controls.
Equally, the thrilling finish to this season’s promotion chase could be the result of restrictions producing teams that are broadly ordinary. Nobody stands out, nobody excels. It will be interesting to see if the promoted clubs fare any better next year.
At elite level, where FFP stunts the ambition of clubs that are not already economic powerhouses, it produces the super-brands identified by Infantino.
Bayern Munich are unstoppable in Germany, 10 points clear of second place, 17 points up on third. Juventus have a lead of 14 points in Italy. The Champions League quarter-finals feature five of the same teams as last year...
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3020418/Why-UEFA-s-Thunderbirds-villain-Gianni-Infantino-trying-kill-football.html#ixzz3W0OLsKxX