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And even the Financial Fair Play regulations are nowhere close to the measures common in most American sports, like salary caps. They’re mostly intended as a sp
by philwelch 1y ago
And even the Financial Fair Play regulations are nowhere close to the measures common in most American sports, like salary caps. They’re mostly intended as a speed bump for foreign oil magnates and Red Bull throwing all their money into their clubs and automatically winning everything.
- Scarblac 1y agoNot even that, it's to prevent clubs going bankrupt all the time. Without rules, every club is going to invest huge sums betting on achieving a top result that would give return on investment, and only a few can achieve that each year. Investors throwing lots of money at the sport is a feature, not a bug, from the viewpoint of the people involved in the sport. So by itself that doesn't need to be prevented.
- zimpenfish 1y ago> They’re mostly intended as a speed bump Sadly aren't even succeeding at that given City's 115 charges (dating back to 2008!) and various clubs with their self-sponsorship shenanigans.
- philwelch 1y agoThat’s how some people drive over speed bumps!