bosstrabs
It’s all bollocks Dave, with FFP and declared spend being used as an excuse by those in denial.
Citeh also paid a lot more than quoted up front for the goal yeti, paid multi million pound sums to his agent and his father on top of what they paid Dortmund. The deniers, or just the plain stupid, will always quote the fee paid to Dortmund only then spraff on about what a great deal they did. All bollocks.
Then there’s the off the books payments that further undermine the deniers. Remember Roberto Mancini having his salary plus consulting fees from other Abu Dhabi companies? Massive FFP bend and only thrown out on a ‘technicality’ around how the information was obtained.
It could be all clubs are at it to a greater or lesser extent but the state owned ones definitely have more capacity to create financial smokescreens.
Pointing at FFP and publicly available accounting figures is a mugs game.
