Corruption in football

[EgyptianPete]

This totally reminds me of the Venky take over, in particular when our John Williams had reservations about the venkys. See what you think, I hope it works

 

[AllRoverAsia]

Thanks for posting. Very interesting and no doubt the tip of the iceberg.

Rightly or wrongly I quite liked Mel Morris or maybe it was just in comparison to the other shysters who populated this ongoing crime scene.

Talking of shysters I noticed that Barca, RM, Juve and AM have been playing with each other in ''Super League'' style pre-season friendlies. Wonkers.

Edited August 11, 2021 by AllRoverAsia

[phili]

Mel Morris explaining how if he became a minority shareholder and wrote off a proportion of the loans each year was a benefit to FFP calculations was very interesting.

IF Venky's did sell us, the new owners could use a similar approach to Fund us quite aggressively for a few years to go for a promotion push.

[StubbsUK]

With all the money available in football, there’s no way it’s not bent, in all sorts of ways.

[Sparks Rover]

8 hours ago, phili said:

Mel Morris explaining how if he became a minority shareholder and wrote off a proportion of the loans each year was a benefit to FFP calculations was very interesting.

IF Venky's did sell us, the new owners could use a similar approach to Fund us quite aggressively for a few years to go for a promotion push.

Mel Morris has been swinging it by wrongly depreciating his players. He's as dodgy as any of them.🙄 why do you think Derby have got in the shit.?

[phili]

32 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Mel Morris has been swinging it by wrongly depreciating his players. He's as dodgy as any of them.🙄 why do you think Derby have got in the shit.?

Probably as he has injected £160m into Derby and run up against FFP. Without FFP they would not be in the mess. Pretty much the same as Venky's but he has been smarter and at least got to the playoffs a few times. The issue is he has started to run out of cash/had enough of trying to find ways to put money into the club and wants out.

I think if FFP was scrapped half of the charlatans in the game would go. Seems most clubs have to employ dodgy accountants and lawyers to come up with ways of putting money into their clubs. All owners loan the cash, have to but stadiums of the clubs etc to put cash into the club to continue to run it. 

FFP did not seem to prevent Bolton situation either