I still can’t figure out how Chelsea’s recent spending has been within FFP rules.

Surely it’s going to come back to bite them, but… they have splashed out and given long contracts for a project that might not work, potentially tying their hands for the next 6 years.

If the powers that be treat Man City like any other club, and if these charges are proved against them, and they get relegated down the football pyramid, every team they’ve competed against in the last 10 years sues them for all they’re worth, and they get stripped of all their titles… we might best manage to match up with them

The one team in the league with true commercial clout is Man Utd, but even then, if they don’t perform on the field soon the sponsors like the fans will become fickle and move on. After a generation of winning nothing, glory supporters look elsewhere and the sponsors will follow.

A few ifs in there like