Financial fair play policies were made back in 2009 to safeguard the interests of small clubs who cannot compete big sides in the transfer market by restricting every side’s expenditure limit to what they actually earn in their financial statements, but now when they are finally imposed by the European governing body, results are quite surprising and completely opposite to their initial objective, at least Chelsea’s second term manager thinks so. Chelsea is among the few sides who found to be in violation of FFP since its enactment and UEFA president has until not taken any action against any of them. Portuguese blames the loopholes intentionally put in those rules so sides having huge foreign investments can enjoy the perks of both the worlds. However, Blues and Manchester City are effectively the only sides whose transfer plans got shattered by the limits of FFP this season and in the next one as well, they are asked to shrink players under their radar and possibly that is why both of them did not impart aggressively in June transfer market.
He pointedly called his side as the prime victim of these changing norms that not letting them use their full strength in both English as well European championships. He talked about the impact of FFPs in today’s transfer market and why they are proving to be its serious victim in an interview when said, “I think financial fair play is a contradiction because, when football decided to go for financial fair play it was exactly to put teams in equal conditions to compete.
“What happened really with the financial fair play is a big protection to the historical, old, big clubs, which have a financial structure, a commercial structure, everything in place based on historical success for years and years and years.
“The new clubs — I call them new clubs, those with new investment — cannot put themselves quickly at the same level. Clubs with new owners cannot immediately attack the control and the domination of these big clubs. Chelsea is not an old, historical, huge club, but it’s also not a club with a new owner. It’s a club with the same owner for more than 10 years. I can say we are a very good club with the ambition to be a great club.”
Former Everton manager is not the only one who is opposing UEFA financial control policies as there are many others who have said likewise in the past and it is now up to UEFA how they take these assessments and make few recommended changes in the financial guidelines.