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Well this doesn’t really come as a surprise now does it. Barcelona and Real Madrid were never going to share the TV revenue equally and yesterday Barca vice-president Javier Faus confirmed these fears to the media. The current deal for TV revenue for the La Liga clubs expires in 2015, where spains giant 2 rake in the highest revenues, forcing...
Today the Liverpool MD Ian Ayre stated that premier league clubs should be able to set their own TV deals, instead of equally sharing the revenues between the 20 clubs in the league. Ayre mentioned on the BBC website that other European clubs such as Spain’s La Liga giants Barcelona and Real Madrid don’t follow the premiership model and create larger...
It’s not only the top European clubs who seem to be worried about ffp. Today on the BBC website Nigel Doughty (Nottingham Forrest Chairman) explained his decision to step down as chairman, following Steve McClarens resignation. McClaren claimed he quit due to the club’s lack of ambition. But due to the impact of financial fair play over the next...
Below is a link to a video on uefa’s financial fair play rules with uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino. In this video he outlines why financial fair play is necessary for the long term stability of football.
financial fair play rules vital for football
According to BBC Sport Uefa are planning on withholding prize money and issuing transfer bans on clubs who fail to meet their financial fair play rules. These new regulations are to ensure clubs live within their own means and would come into play for the 2013/2014 season.
Inter Milan Chief Executive Ernesto Paolillo felt the penalties were a good idea,...
I stumbled across an article in the guardian yesterday, which outlined the spending of premiership clubs in this summer’s transfer window. According to reports from the guardian premier league clubs spent around £194 million. There was also no surprise to who the biggest spenders of the summer were, with Man City spending a whopping £63.6 million....
Man United have made a profit of £110.9 million, with revenues of £334.1 million, surpassing the £300 million mark for the first time. Their commercial turnover was over £100 million, after winning the premier league and reaching the final of the champions league, where they lost to Barcelona.
This is all down to having Alex Ferguson. Every season...
Well it’s the transfer deadline day today, where fans of the 2 north london clubs are use to seeing plenty of activity. Arsenal have confirmed the signing of brazilian left back Andre Santos from Fenerbache, while the spuds have just completed the signing of Scott Parker from West Ham.
Both of these clubs are desperate to improve their squads...
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Yesterday UEFA President Michel Platini wrote in the official UEFA publication UEFA-Direct why he feels the financial fair play regulations are vital for the future of football. Click hereto learn about uefa’s financial fair play rules.
These regulations have had mixed reviews, where some have criticised it for being in more favour of the bigger clubs,...
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Negotiations between the representatives of La Liga and the player union failed to reach an agreement last night over the protection of player wages. So now there would have to be further talks to try and fix the situation, which is set to cause further strikes to matches.
According to skyports a report from the AFE said clubs in la liga owe around...

