15 Aug 2022 16:49:52
Spanish journalist Gerard Romero reporting that Barcelona are interested in signing Frimpong, don't know fee or if Celtic have sell on clause.
15 Aug 2022 20:04:29
Barcelona have been forced to raise some serious funds, to comply with the Spanish FFP rules, to allow them to buy players in this transfer window.
They sold the rights, to rename their stadium Spotify Nou Camp.
Barcelona have sold a percentage to future TV rights.
And they have also sold 50% of future merchandise sales, to bring down that debt.
{Ed007's Note - It's well dodgy but they've managed to do it and they are bizarely interested in Frimpong.}
15 Aug 2022 20:17:38
Just proves the Eufa FFP rules are a joke.
{Ed007's Note - I used to know the basics of how they worked but over the last few years you'd need to be a high end lawyer or shady mofo to understand how clubs get round them.}
15 Aug 2022 21:46:39
The greater interests of the collective 'big clubs' will always find a solution. HH.
16 Aug 2022 09:39:47
FFP has been replaced by the Financial Sustainability Regulations. It targets 3 areas. The no overdue payables rule, the football earnings rule, and the squad cost rule. I think bizarrely the cap for squad cost is being phased in at 90, 80 then 70% of club revenues which seems a lot of wiggle room for clubs to start with. As far as I can tell the football earnings rule can be exploited by rich owners for club improvement purposes but not the playing squad itself.
17 Aug 2022 08:03:18
These teams are so much in debt and will sell family furniture to try and stay at the top and have expensive lawyers who will look at and bend the rules to their will to get what their team needs. The problem is fairplay rules are so muddy, so grey and probably written that way to help the so called bigger clubs. We wouldn't get away with the stuff they do. We should be happy though we are run properly and not a billion in debt like a lot of them. They get all the tv money and it's still not enough for them.