Platini has another go at us.

[trueblue64]

1423: FOOTBALL - Uefa President Michel Platini says they will "see what we can do" to curb excessive spending among Europe's top clubs. Manchester City and Paris St Germain have been carried to the summit of the Premier League and Ligue 1 respectively on the back of the vast wealth of their middle eastern owners. "The philosophy is that you cannot spend more money than you generate. "We are in the process of studying the accounts, and we will see what we can do."

I do fucking hate this prick...

[steveo_88]

He's scared that just when it looks like English football might be struggling in Europe due to La Liga Manyoo invest money and our long term plan starts to produce.

Why do we never hear him griping about Eastern European Oligarchs? Or teams like Red Bull Salzburg we know them and they surely aren't pulling in enough money to cover expenses!

[simon12]

He needs to concentrate on the public perception of fifa and uefa because the footballing public think they are corrupt and they`re right. lets have fifas and uefas accounts looked into you little fucking jealous war dodger.

[The Man In Blue]

Notice he had nothing to say on Juve posting about 95m euro loss in September. Surprising, that.

[sandman]

Active questioning by shit stirring media that causes pathetic knee jerk (the whole worlds against us) reactions such as the title of this thread.

If you cut the media biased bullshit then what Platini actually says is "We are in the process of studying the accounts, and we will see what we can do" which is a straight reply to a direct question designed to create this story.

As for the "what we can do" part, the answer to that is fuck all, its too late, we are already top of the league by a margin and in the Champions League, the threat of a European ban is ridiculous, that was another thing that is regularly spouted by the media to create a story on slow news days despite Platini making it clear that they would only resort to that as an absolute last resort, and if City are kicked out of Europe then so are Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal and the Munichs as all of their financial states have either similar or less potential than ours.

If he was to go through with the threats spouted by the media and impose bans on the aforementioned clubs then he knows he'd lose out financially as the Champions League would die due to lack of interest. People like Platini do not put themselves in a position to lose out financially.

[mcfc1632]

Active questioning by shit stirring media that causes pathetic knee jerk (the whole worlds against us) reactions such as the title of this thread.

If you cut the media biased bullshit then what Platini actually says is "We are in the process of studying the accounts, and we will see what we can do" which is a straight reply to a direct question designed to create this story.

As for the "what we can do" part, the answer to that is fuck all, its too late, we are already top of the league by a margin and in the Champions League, the threat of a European ban is ridiculous, that was another thing that is regularly spouted by the media to create a story on slow news days despite Platini making it clear that they would only resort to that as an absolute last resort, and if City are kicked out of Europe then so are Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal and the Munichs as all of their financial states have either similar or less potential than ours.

If he was to go through with the threats spouted by the media and impose bans on the aforementioned clubs then he knows he'd lose out financially as the Champions League would die due to lack of interest. People like Platini do not put themselves in a position to lose out financially.

well you might think everyone is paranoid and you make what sounds like a very authoriative statement but I am afraid for those clubs highlighted (all except Chelski) what you say is simply untrue.

FFPR does not remotely find these clubs out of step - indeed the regs are purposely designed to ensure that this is the case only focussing on spend against revenue ratios and ignoring debt

Although the part where you say: "People like Platini do not put themselves in a position to lose out financially" is spot on which is why he needs to be seen to act by the clubs you mention if they are not to threaten (again) to breakaway - a course of action which is gathering pace

[Hazy2]

This is the man who rode the Italian football gravy train. The man was a great player he has lost his way, Crawley Town are doing the same as us Malaga and PSG, all be it at a lower level, The new Wimbledon, have been at it for them to rise, why is this idiot only concerned with the higher end of football. Players earning one million a month at the top end will never be reversed if agents and players are to be believed, Maybe Gordon Taylor wants to get of his fat arse and add his voice, maybe football should just ask Platini to do one. Juve and Madrid both use money from wealthy owners, to a point where they are skint, bailed out start again. Breakaway is almost here.

[john@staustell]

Sandman - the question was put by a french journalist regarding PSG. But Platini referred to Manchester City in England, 'with their arab owners'.

I think the thread is right to question why he constantly harps on about us, giving the impression it is a personal crusade against us. Everyone knows nearly every club spends more than they earn, and always have.

So one wonders what his true motivation is?

[Crossie]

He needs to concentrate on the public perception of fifa and uefa because the footballing public think they are corrupt and they`re right. lets have fifas and uefas accounts looked into you little fucking jealous war dodger.

Post of the day.

[Rag_hater]

Like Mr.Ashton said Platini has said we will see what we can do.Well thats fuckall Mr.P.We have already got a huge sum from the stadium naming.
We are already playing in Europe with our sponsors name all over our shirt so how can they go back on results that have already happened.
We have fucked them and there is fuckall they can do.