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I would think the 3 clubs would certainly include Fester and possibly West Ham. Not sure who the 3rd would be.

In some ways it may make the bigger clubs gamble more. They used the QPR model and said they spent £25 million to get promoted, under FFP they would have been fined £3 million, however with the £50 million Premiership gravy train the fine would be small change.
I also think the Leicester fans have a point with the sponsorship thing. Man City have done something similar. They have have a £400 million sponsorship with Etihad over 10 years, this despite Etihad Airlines having never made a profit since coming into business and being owned by (I think the brother) of the club's owners.
I just have a feeling that (as usual) we will play by the rules and be left behind by teams who use loopholes to benefit themselves.

however with the £50 million Premiership gravy train the fine would be small change.
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All good if you got promoted. However, if a club did this and had a £3M fine on top of £25M with further wages and a possible fine the following season pending surely would not make good business sense. Also, they could deduct points for not following FL rules associated with this rule.

There are many issues involved that are not clear to us fans. To me this will only be good for teams being relegated from the Prem who will havea parachute payment to compensate their demotion. something that I still cannot understand why they should be rewarded for being crap

It's complicated isn't it and I guess we'll never know whats best.

With regard to the risk of being fined, Leicester could proably afford to be fined if it was as simple as that, if they wasn't promoted, but hopefully other things would happen if teams never followed the rules.

I must admit I agree, I can see NFFC following the rules to the letter of the law and suffering compared to other teams.

I think it probably is a good thing though, teams will be where they can afford to be, even if it's totally unfair with regard to the relagted teams!

If an owner cones in to a club and has the funds and the will to chuck £25m at promotion. Then probably more if they get up, I don't really think a £3m fine is going to stop them.

As has been said there will be ways and means to get round it. Sponsorship and so on. I fear that clubs will just use it as an excuse to squeeze more out of fans. They'll be able to say, we can't do anymore, if you want us to sign a striker then you'll all have pay an extra £100 on your season tickets.

Havn't League 1 and 2 been doing this for a few years and it's been ok?

The fans always gets screwed first and the most, so nothing new there!

It seems a bit silly if all that's stopping clubs from over spending is a fine. If a club throws £20 million at promotion, then surely they will be able to afford the subsequent fine, especially given what they will earn upon achieving promotion.
Banning a team from promotion irrespective of league position would be the only way of stopping the mega rich clubs from abiding by FFP. The rest of the teams would have to live frugally and despite being safe from administration / liquidation, wouldn't stand much of a chance of going up or challenging at the top.

Well you hope that it's fairly easy to check and enforce and if it appeared a team wasn't abiding by the rules something would happen before it got to that!

Although it's probably not and won't be, but yeah I think we all agree just a 3 million fine is nothing to certain clubs, even if they wasn't promoted!

Clubs will get around it though for sure!

We'll probably suffer as much if not more than most being squeaky clean!

TBH if it weren't for parachute payments and mega-rich owners this was like football used to be. However, contrary to popular opinion, the game was not much different back then in many ways, the bigger clubs always had more spending power and attracted the better players. Even before the Premiership came into being the trophies (especially the league) was shared out between the likes of Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal and the likes with just the occasional interuption from the likes of ourselves, Derby, Ipswich, Leeds and Villa.
Football really changed when the rules changed regarding the visiting teams getting (I think) 25% of the gate receipts, the smaller clubs in the division such as Wimbledon and Millwall were getting more money from trips to Old Trafford, Anfield, Highbury etc than they were making from home games. Once that changed the rich just kept getting richer while small clubs just fell away.

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