Quote Originally Posted by westcountryvillain View Post
I did read that within the Recon group are seperate divisions and our stadium ownership has moved from one to the other which will certainly be scrutinised. The whole FFP thing is a mess, totally understand why it was introduced in the first place but when you look at the big money purchases made in the PL and the amount of debt being moved around, holding companies being created to service that debt the whole thing stinks.

Villa did gamble massively in the first season with huge buys and the parachute payments were there to help finance them, since then we've been relatively frugal and with the TV money/year 3 parachute payment being so low vs massive wage bills (Micah Richards FFS) done us in.
Yes, WCV. The whole thing stinks. Your club is a good example as to why the FFP exists, precisely to protect clubs from themselves. All that history nearly bar a few days went down the drain due to one bad owner who put all his chips on promotion and lost. Regardless of who goes up, if they've broken the rules and spent more than came in then the points deduction should apply in the EPL. All non-punishment does is encourage rule breaking.