The Spurs gaffer did not react well to the news that rivals Manchester City had managed to manoeuvre themselves into a fudge of a situation in respect of alleged Financial Fair Play breaches. Mourinho as usual, is spot on. Manchester City won their appeal against UEFA but were still fined £9million by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
How can one get a not guilty, and yet still pay out £9million in fines? It makes no sense whatsoever. The impact on the rest of the division is that no clear authority has been demonstrated by UEFA and any clubs thinking of chancing their arm, probably will.
Like in the USA , you get the ‘Justice’ , you can afford .
Reading several reports on what went wrong (right for Citeh) it seems similar to a whale attacking a fully armed whaling vessel.
“Not proven”
“Time barring”
“Citeh failed to co-operate”
none of that makes them innocent
UEFA are a shambles
From the day and hour the game started in the nineteenth century clubs have been seeking to gain an advantage through spending more than their rivals. Long term a wage cap and proper FFP will be be needed to save the game. How long will people remain interested when the same team in Germany, Italy and France win everything year after year. Other Leagues are going the same way monopolies or as in Spain and England duopolies.
I did say ‘had FFP been enforced’, be it a rule or not at the time doesn’t change my point. Secondly, I’m pretty sure it was in place when Inter had that massive splurge on players (Italian clubs are some of the most poorly run on any FFP basis) and it was definitely in place during his second spell at Cheatski…
The reaction of the pundits is to be expected, they want to keep their jobs so toe the line. They are a bunch of Yes men and women. How dare anyone upset Man City. The Clubs though should be speaking out, unless they have been doing the same and don’t want to be hypercrits or see this as a massive opportunity and don’t want to be hypercrits. It’s opened the doors to widespread cheating. I know one club which won’t break their fiscal responsibility!
On Jose: it wasn’t a rule when he won his first CL at Porto, nor when he was at chelsea winning PLs, nor when he was at Inter winning another CL so it is hardly hypocritical.
Or maybe levy is anticipating a rule in 2036 stating london clubs must spend less than 45% of their income on wages and doesn’t want to look “hypocritical” to us in the future….
The fact they’ve got away with it is bad enough but it’s the reaction of the majority of pundits and presenters that seem pretty overjoyed that City didn’t serve their deserved punishment.
Jose is right, but of course had FFP been enforced during his time at Cheatsk, Inter and Reali A; He’d have been complaining about it. & B; would he have won the stuff he did?
Slightly hypocritical given his career and how he’s clearly benefited from clubs with billionaire benefactors spending more than the club could ever earn back…