Samuels is bang on

fair play is about protecting Europe's elite. Its is in fact the very opposite of fair play. Those who are the most ardent advocates of it are those with most to gain.

What a brilliant article.....says it all...Its Platini's fault

Yet how much did city spend before last year?

As the article says, the plan was to accelerate 10 years development into three years, hence three years big spending. Anyone who thought we'd keep up that scale of spending next summer, the year after, and beyond that, with or without the introduction of FFP is deluded though.

Beat me to it anyway MC, I was going to post a link to this article when I read it today, echos my views almost precisely, even if it is from the Daily Mail

samuels is the only decent thing in the mail.

it's what several of us have been saying for quite some time, just this time it's all put together and in a 'newspaper'.

Next he'll be using my calculations as to how city will break even within two years!

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Daily Mail in decent article shocker!

ONH in wum shocker comment shocker

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Every now and then a good piece of impartial journalism pops up. Great article and well summed up.

Credit should also go to the City board, they took a gamble in sacking Hughes and getting in Mancini (wasn't exactly a blockbuster manager name at the time) and got fully behind him over 1 and 1/2 seasons to make City into a table topping side by the time FFP rules took effect, enabling them to increase the level of sponsorhip. Had we fallen short of CL football last season then we really would have struggled to ever make the top 4 and be accepted in the CL through the FFP. Now though we have a young squad capable of winning trophies, and sponsorship agreements all increasing as well as CL football which is a guaranteed £20 million each season no matter where you exit providing you make the groups.