Club Sponsorships

[SheepRanger]

I see that Man City has won its first case against the Premiership Rules regarding Associated Third Party sponsorships. These rules were put in place to stop inflated sponsorship deals being made from connected companies to club owners who wanted to put in money to help meet Profit & Sustainability criteria. These were historical rules and Man City and now challenging the replacement ones too. Essentially, an independent body has stated that Premiership Rules must stand up to legal standards.

Im sure they'll win the second case too, which will mean any firm connected to club owners, can sponsor clubs at above market value to help it balance the books due to high transfer fees and wages. That decision is due immentently.

It will result in the richer owners putting more money into their clubs, and once approved at Premiership level, it should filter down to the EFL as a matter of legal precedent.

So, it has been said that our owners have always wanted to invest more money into QPR, but have been restricted by FFP / P&S. I wonder if we'll see bigger amounts of money coming into the club from Malaysia & India so we can compete financially with the bigger championship clubs next season?

[topperharley]

It would be great on level that we can offer good wages, and afford decent fees. However I wouldn't want us to splash cash around on players, and have wage issues in the dressing room.

Ie, it would be nice to think we can offer someone liek Dunne wages he deserves, and that we can think about a realistic bid for someone like Edwards.

I think the club have well and truly learnt their lesson anyway. Be interesting to see where City case goes.

[Abseits]

There are two alternatives. Football can either ditch any attempt to moderate, cap or limit the amount owners can plough into clubs and allow them to spend whatever they like OR try and put in place limits to ensure there aren't ridiculous imbalances between clubs in the same division that erodes competition.

I presume they'll continue to go for the latter. Clubs like Citeh will continually seek to bend and distort whatever framework applies and football will continually evolve that framework in a silly game of cat-and-mouse. It's a moving feast basically.

Frankly, the sooner these clubs eff off to their European Super League the better.... that's when football will be "saved".

[SheepRanger]

I would agree that any influx of money should be used sensibly in young hungry players. Under no circumstances should we get players on the slide and those who would think we're below them under normal circumstances. Only for gifted players on the up with a lot still to achieve.

[FurtiveFox]

Mainly agree Sheep but we can always do with 2 or 3 'on the slide' to balance the side. Cook and Colback very important players for us and bring a lot more than simply their ability as players.

Other thing I would say is if we are indeed starting to be seen as a progressive well run club my hope is that players are more likely to positively want to play for us as opposed to being here simply because we are the best of some bad options for them plus of course better quality loan players. I don't think we would have got the loans players we have now in previous seasons.

Incremental improvement the way forward in my view.

[SheepRanger]

Mainly agree Sheep but we can always do with 2 or 3 'on the slide' to balance the side. Cook and Colback very important players for us and bring a lot more than simply their ability as players.

Other thing I would say is if we are indeed starting to be seen as a progressive well run club my hope is that players are more likely to positively want to play for us as opposed to being here simply because we are the best of some bad options for them plus of course better quality loan players. I don't think we would have got the loans players we have now in previous seasons.

Incremental improvement the way forward in my view.

Yeah, I think I'm a bit wary of the prem mercenary types we got in who didn't pull their weight. I guess those in the game know their characters, the Cook, Hill and Derry types are fine. We seem to manage money quite badly!!

[Undecided]

Mainly agree Sheep but we can always do with 2 or 3 'on the slide' to balance the side. Cook and Colback very important players for us and bring a lot more than simply their ability as players.

Other thing I would say is if we are indeed starting to be seen as a progressive well run club my hope is that players are more likely to positively want to play for us as opposed to being here simply because we are the best of some bad options for them plus of course better quality loan players. I don't think we would have got the loans players we have now in previous seasons.

Incremental improvement the way forward in my view.

[topperharley]

Frankly, the sooner these clubs eff off to their European Super League the better.... that's when football will be "saved".

I'm starting to see how this does really make perfect sense for everyone.