I’ve been thinking again about the BCC’s and FFP.

DagenhamFox

DagenhamFox

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Their business model is for European football each season. Ideally Champions League as that’s where the riches are.

So how do Chelsea in particular survive when they get no income from UEFA?

I’d ask the same question of Spurs although I can see how they get additional income outside of football during the year.

Man U are a truly global brand so I don’t think m they’re affected as much.
 
Chelsea have managed to get through this with the loophole of 7/8 year contracts. So a player bought for £70m on a 7 year contract costs them on the books £10m/year. Yet if they sell a player, especially home grown for eg £40m they put the whole amount down on the books. UEFA I believe stopped this last summer so anyone competing in Europe couldn’t do this yet the PL still allowed it. I think they’re stopping it this summer though. So with Cheatski not in Europe they’ve gone all in with these crazy buys.
It’s completely wrong what they’re doing. Hopefully they’ll get the conference league, meaning little income but more matches.
 
DagenhamFox said:
Their business model is for European football each season. Ideally Champions League as that’s where the riches are.

So how do Chelsea in particular survive when they get no income from UEFA?

I’d ask the same question of Spurs although I can see how they get additional income outside of football during the year.

Man U are a truly global brand so I don’t think m they’re affected as much.
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In a nutshell, this is precisely why some of the European BCCs (including some English ones before they all changed their minds) wanted to create a European Super League. Qualifying for the CL can make a major difference to a club's income stream. If you qualify some years and not others, your income stream will be highly volatile. So the possibility of not qualifying for the CL carries a huge amount of jeopardy for BCCs.

Obviously they don't like this, hence their attempt to create a closed shop whereby they'd be guaranteed a fat slice of European money every year irrespective of how they perform domestically. This would make life a lot easier for them, but it would also effectively close the drawbridge to other aspirational clubs and would make domestic leagues much more boring because there would be so much less for clubs to fight for. It would be anti-competitive and bad for the game as a spectacle, but it would mean the BCCs could spend vast amounts of money on transfer fees and wages safe in the knowledge that they can afford it because they're on the European gravy train.
 
ClaphamFox said:
In a nutshell, this is precisely why some of the European BCCs (including some English ones before they all changed their minds) wanted to create a European Super League. Qualifying for the CL can make a major difference to a club's income stream. If you qualify some years and not others, your income stream will be highly volatile. So the possibility of not qualifying for the CL carries a huge amount of jeopardy for BCCs.

Obviously they don't like this, hence their attempt to create a closed shop whereby they'd be guaranteed a fat slice of European money every year irrespective of how they perform domestically. This would make life a lot easier for them, but it would also effectively close the drawbridge to other aspirational clubs and would make domestic leagues much more boring because there would be so much less for clubs to fight for. It would be anti-competitive and bad for the game as a spectacle, but it would mean the BCCs could spend vast amounts of money on transfer fees and wages safe in the knowledge that they can afford it because they're on the European gravy train.
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Your point about jeopardy is why we’re probably in the financial mess we are. Qualifying for even the Europa league twice on the trot meant investing more in players and wages. Am I correct. Chelsea not qualifying for Europe for two years running will be financially brutal for them. Or will it?
 
LGFOX said:
Your point about jeopardy is why we’re probably in the financial mess we are. Qualifying for even the Europa league twice on the trot meant investing more in players and wages. Am I correct. Chelsea not qualifying for Europe for two years running will be financially brutal for them. Or will it?
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I don't think they separate the figures in their accounts from what I can see but looking around (i.e. on this 'ere Internet thingy) in 2021/22 when they reached the CL quarter finals I think they they made around £75m from UEFA for participation/prize money to which you could add more £££ in terms of additional gate receipts etc. This out of Turnover of £453m. So, probably not brutal in and of itself but certainly very significant.
 
ClaphamFox said:
In a nutshell, this is precisely why some of the European BCCs (including some English ones before they all changed their minds) wanted to create a European Super League. Qualifying for the CL can make a major difference to a club's income stream. If you qualify some years and not others, your income stream will be highly volatile. So the possibility of not qualifying for the CL carries a huge amount of jeopardy for BCCs.

Obviously they don't like this, hence their attempt to create a closed shop whereby they'd be guaranteed a fat slice of European money every year irrespective of how they perform domestically. This would make life a lot easier for them, but it would also effectively close the drawbridge to other aspirational clubs and would make domestic leagues much more boring because there would be so much less for clubs to fight for. It would be anti-competitive and bad for the game as a spectacle, but it would mean the BCCs could spend vast amounts of money on transfer fees and wages safe in the knowledge that they can afford it because they're on the European gravy train.
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Stamping on the aspersions of those who look to become an inspiration to their own ilk, shameless behaviour tolerated by clubs whose origins lie within the sport for the working classes and kidnapped in front of our eyes by the likes of those who we despise,.
 
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