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Where is Ufa's grief

Why European soccer clubs were fined 172 million euros.

By Cucchia TinPublished 2 years ago 7 min read
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Where is Ufa's grief
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On September 2, UFA officially announced that eight European soccer clubs were fined a total of 172 million euros because of the Financial Fairness Act.

The eight clubs are AC Milan, Monaco, Rom, Besieges, Inter, June, Marseilles and Paris, who violated the financial break-even requirement of the Financial Fairness Act.

The eight clubs signed a settlement agreement with UFA and agreed to make a financial contribution of 172 million euros. 15% of these payments were paid in full, totaling 26 million euros, and the payment of the remaining 85% of the fine (146 million euros) depended on whether these clubs were able to meet the targets in the settlement agreement.

UFA is once again taking the blame for this settlement.

For one, the reasons for the introduction of the Financial Fairness Act already illustrate Ufa's good intentions.

The original intention of Ufa's fiscal fairness bill, enacted in 2010 and implemented in 2014, was to regulate the financial behavior of clubs, control their financial deficits and make European soccer clubs more sustainable.

Look at the half-death of the teams after the bubble of the Chinese Super League broke now, you know the foresight of UFA.

In June this year, UFA launched a new financial fairness bill, the new bill, the club and football-related expenditure, shall not exceed 70% of the club's revenue, the new rules will have a three-year buffer period, the buffer period, the expenditure ratio can reach 90%. And after three years, once the new financial fairness bill is violated, a fine or relegation will be imposed. The so-called relegation means that the team that would have played in the Champions League will be relegated to the UFA Cup, and the team that would have played in the UFA Europa League will be relegated to the UFA Cup, while a new demerit point system will be introduced.

From fines to relegation in European tournaments, UFA used all the iron fist, or out of the soccer itself, all the personal attacks for Cheeriness, is completely claptrap.

The professionalism of the UFA president does not need to be doubted by others.

UFA is indeed well intentioned.

Two, the current settlement agreement, in the end, is the product of compromise after the game.

In 2014, UFA has punished 20 clubs suspected of violating the financial fairness policy, Ufa's punishment for each team varies, some are just written condemnation to draw attention to, while some serious violations of the team will face large fines, individual teams will even face the cancellation of European competition severe punishment. Eight teams, including Manchester City and Paris, were fined 49 million pounds.

But the majority of this amount was not carried out down, UFA for their first strike, it is clear that after the game chose to high lift light release.

For Manchester City eight years ago and now for Paris, these fines are negligible because for the tycoons, problems that can be solved with money are not problems.

For UFA, they chose to compromise for two reasons.

First, to be able to reflect their authority.

Second, to avoid pushing the rabbits to raise the words of the European Super League again.

This piece of cake, UFA does not allow others to get their hands on.

Third, the seeming impunity of Manchester City Paris, it is really Ufa's inability to get along with the money and barbarians are now indeed becoming civilized.

Eight years ago, the courtroom performance of Manchester City's powerful team of lawyers made the vulnerability of UFA, a civil organization, visible, and Manchester City was able to get a light sentence.

Furthermore, in the face of petrodollars this level of gold, no matter who is not stupid enough to choose to refuse, although their barbarian nature, so that the old rules are bound to encounter unreasonable rushes, but look at the results of the overall benefit of European soccer, all the opponents have to choose to shut up again.

For professional sports nowadays, the two sides of capital are manifested to the fullest, and sports are also part of the economy.

The irrationality of capital is that it does not play by the rules.

The rationality of capital lies in its pursuit of profit, which is no different from others, even more greedy.

Eight years later, as Manchester City continues to show aggression on the pitch while being a big seller this season, and as Miguel 1 oligarchs like Paris start to think about how to improve Miguel 1, we can clearly see that the barbarians of the past are reining in their nature.

Paris has finally realized that their unique happiness cannot hide the fact that Miguel 1 has fallen out of the top five leagues, and the reason why Paris has successively faltered in the Champions League knockout rounds with their luxury division is, in the end, the limited refinement of Miguel 1 for them.

When the barbarian becomes reverent to the rules, then he has basically integrated into civilized society.

The seeming impunity of Manchester City Paris is really the inability of UFA to get along with the money and the barbarians are now really becoming civilized.

We can basically interpret this as the embellishment of European soccer.

Fourth, the Financial Fairness Act shows us the limitations of the Premier League when its investment becomes the sum of other European leagues.

Because of the differences between the major European soccer leagues, it is difficult for UFA to cut all together at one stroke. The rejection of Clincher's salary cap proposal has already illustrated the problem.

The biggest reason why Ufa's fiscal fairness bill has been widely criticized is that it adversely affects membership clubs in favor of the Premier League, which is completely monopolized by capital.

The just concluded summer window saw the Premier League outspend the rest of the European leagues combined with £2 billion in transfer spending.

The new TV broadcasting contract, which allows even the bottom teams in the Premier League to get a share of £100 million, is the reason why they are so impulsive, not unlike the NBA's proliferation of top contracts in the summer window now.

European soccer is now divided into two tiers, English soccer and the rest of the world.

Despite the exciting spending figures, new policies may be implemented on the part of the Premier League to limit teams' spending, as the frenzy of spending has been threatened by an independent regulator backed by legislation imposed by a skeptical government.

From this point on, the Financial Fairness Act has demonstrated its legitimacy and vulnerability.

Chelsea's plight under financial sanctions at the end of last season immediately showed us the fragile side of the Premier League.

The original intention of the Financial Fairness Act was to avoid the blind impulse of small teams, but the big teams became DE fact extra-legal under Ufa's wistfulness, because the fines were totally gross for the big players.

So, under the hostage of capital, the giants of the English Premier League can pull the wool over the eyes of the Dutch, Portuguese and French teams in the second tier.

And the poor Eerie A Miguel 1 team a little to make a mistake, it becomes a victim of the rules.

The four Eerie A teams won the dart, while none of the Premier League teams fell into the net, once again illustrating the loopholes in the Financial Fairness Act.

Under the current rules of EFFACE can only be polarized more and more serious, the English Premier League is getting richer and richer, Eerie A is getting poorer and poorer.

When the strong are strong and the weak have no upward mobility, instability begins to arise.

The fines are too heavy, and the seeds will be sown for the future of the European Super League to raise its head again, and UFA is also throwing caution to the wind, and Huang Sivan was also driven to be poor and afraid.

The success of the English Premier League is the support of capital, and from the Bundestag to Eerie A, are not completely open to capital options, the national conditions of each country is different.

Diversification and mixed polymorphic to have better resistance and sustainability, and the fiscal fairness bill, is obviously forcing honest people to compromise with the capital choice.

This is in fact the biggest problem with this bill, after selective legislation and selective enforcement, it is killing the future possibilities of club soccer.

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Cucchia Tin

Life lies in sports, and maintaining a healthy body is inseparable from sports.

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