One of two, Tenerife made the final last night.
What a remarkable team, linked to everyone under the sun and yet not a pot to piss in.
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The fact the CEO openly says ‘if someone could give us 500m’ just shows you how FFP and football finances more generally are absolutely fucked.
Really hope they continue to have financial problems ‘more than a club’ would otherwise experience.
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I’d love to see this lot and Real Madrid stew in their own juices.
Horrible clubs
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Hat’s off, that’s some career.
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Didn’t know where to put this.
At least somebody is trying to do something.
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They still not over the Mbappe deal?
Nothing’s going to happen, just let it go.
They can complain but honestly these oil money clubs will find all the loopholes to stay in the grey area of the legal loopholes. Everyone knows they get revenue that is imagined and not according to market conditions but they will show you all the “proper” documents that makes it legal.
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These are two separate complaints, and while the PSG one was filed after the Mbappe deal the City one was filed in the Spring. The Mbappe contract just validated their complaint.
While people might scoff given the money Real were willing to spend to land him, they have organized their finances for years to accommodate it. They had one big summer the year they bought Hazard, but other than that their net spend is more or less zero over the rest of the 5-6 year period since buying Bale.
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Hopefully if there is a breakaway league cheaty and PSG are just excluded. End of them.
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Tebas ≠ Real.
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Seems that La Liga got to make their own stars now!
You mean, he’s a hologram?
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I’m not an insubordinate man by nature. I try to respect Javier Tebas, but it’s not easy, because he’s such a smeghead.
I don’t think Real/La Liga expects UEFA to address their grievances. I think they are just trying to keep the pressure as they (quite rightly) view UEFA firmly in bed with the Oil Clubs. In addition, I think they are also trying to open a fault line between the Oil Clubs (and UEFA) and the other European heavyweights.
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Barcelona have made a £34.4 m bid for Robert Lewandowski, Bayern say he’s not for sale.
Come on Barca, keep tapping 
It’s well documented that Barca have traded 10% of their TV revenue over the next 25 years for a 1 time up front 200 million euro deal. There was conversations about comparisons to leeds - using future CL revenue to fund moves today that would solidify them in the CL, but that wasnt appropriate then. The primary reason for doing this deal was purported to be to be primarily an accounting trick to book the revenue now so it can be applied to the calculation of their upcoming spending cap for next season that currently has them at net 140 million.
Yet, today news is breaking that they are now looking for buyers for an additional 15% of those tv rights, money they ARE earmarking to be used to fund purchases of new players, including the 34 year old Lewondoswki. This is very much Leeds.
get the 200 million revenue on their books now,
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