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  • JoshyRanchy@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    The deal for Pepe was shady as fuck, do you think AFC have been investigated for that fully?

    • LockIllustrious4789@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I think it helps that Kroenkes were proactive and launched a internal investigaton by delegating Tim Lewis to do It.

      The fact that it also caused a board overhaul with Sanllehi leaving is telling that the Pepe deal was about individuals who tried to direct a part of clubs money to their pockets.

      It’s not about us gaining an unfair advantage against other clubs.

        • JoshyRanchy@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          Fair enough.

          FFP is a pistake imho.

          Are there any ethics rules etc that all clubs must abide?

          Like how all agents must be registered.

          There could be some framework to ensure abu daby can’t promise players hotels etc to manage minimise their wage bills.

          Maybe something to prevent a monopoly on young talent Only playing with clubs owned by the same consortium.

          Large transfer fees could be used to manage FFP rules.

          Even the ammortisation of contracts was abused by chelski.

          • ErraticPragmatic@alien.topB
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            1 year ago

            There’s only one thing that might work once for all. A new currency only for transfers, loans and agent’s fees cap. Everything transfer related. Since there’ll a currency with very low liquidiity

            Clubs need to exchange their currencies on specific periods. Summer and Winter for that matter, even better once per 2 seasons

            All exchanges must be public revealed with all its history.

            It’s basically a deliberate low liquidiity model stock market.