Monday, January 31, 2011

Here's All The Evidence You Need For UEFA Fair Play Rules

This man is ruining soccer.
  1. Chelsea just reported a £70.9M loss.
  2. Chelsea has had the most expensive squad transfer cost eight years running.
  3. Chelsea just bought Fernando Torres for £70.9M and David Luiz for £25M.
  4. Apparently Manchester City may be ready to exceed Chelsea's record loss of £147M.
I am all for free markets - that's one of the reasons I love soccer compared to the closed professional leagues in the US.  I also oppose oligopoly, which Pay As You Play showed has been happening since Abramovich took over at Chelsea.  I will be interested to see how rigorously UEFA applies the Fair Play rules - are they really going to tell a club like Chelsea or Manchester City that they cannot participate in Champions League?  I hope so, or things are going to continue to get worse.

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