Don't see why nationality of owners is the issue

Question for me is whether some clubs are being financed from non-footballing revenues (ie ticket sales, tv rights, legitimate sponsorship).

Of course, the problem comes in defining 'legitimate' - will always be difficult to prove that what are and aren't just donations being dressed up as sponsorship. Hence why FFP is probably doomed to failure.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on April 14th 2014 at 15:54:34

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The only team to 'deserve' the title this season will be the one that finishes top on May (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Apr 14, 14:19:00
- Also, is it any more praiseworthy to accept American dollars than Oligarchs' roubles? (Other Football) - King, Apr 14, 15:37:22
  - The question is whether they actually inject oodles of cash (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 15:43:44
    - I would suggest that's not far from being the case for Liverpool too (Other Football) - King, Apr 14, 15:50:22
      - Fair enough. In that case agree with you I think (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 15:57:47
    - (but to be clear, I haven't looked at Liverpool's or Arsenal's accounts - (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 15:45:54
      - I absolutely guarantee Arsenal's owner hasn't put a cent of his money into the club (Other Football) - mr carra, Apr 14, 15:53:09
        
        But "Arsenal have got ?125million just sitting in the bank" (Other Football) - Huge Small, Apr 14, 16:00:23
        
        well they have if... (Other Football) - mr carra, Apr 14, 16:10:53
        
        or you could look at their accounts (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Apr 14, 16:16:44
        
        ?123.3m (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Apr 14, 16:08:19
      - What would the prem table look like without all the foreign owned clubs? (n/m) (Other Football) - Larry Hagman, Apr 14, 15:51:42
        
        Don't see why nationality of owners is the issue (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 15:54:34
        
        we can't gripe that much - we've benefited from it in the past (Other Football) - mr carra, Apr 14, 15:58:12
        
        yup (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Apr 14, 16:00:05
        
        Cos we then might be nearer to the top (n/m) (Other Football) - Larry Hagman, Apr 14, 15:57:33

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