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Eddie Howe has indicated Newcastle will do everything in their power to resist a proposed new Premier League rule that would prevent teams from signing players on loan from associated clubs. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A compromise solution would be to allow it but settle on a fair price formula and then apply a penalty to FFP with a multiplier. For example if the donor club bought the player for 40m, then take that value divide by the years to amortize it (say 4 years at 40m, 10m per year) and require the recipient club to incur an FFP penalty equal to that times a factor for the financial year of the loan. If the factor in the above example is x2 then it's minus 20 million towards FFP for the year (10m x2).

Hell, you can make the factor even scale based on the last rank of the club so the more successful a club becomes the more associated loans cost towards FFP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While I appreciate the effort in trying to put a penalty on it you'd need to consistently apply it across Europe if you're talking FFP. So say Ineos get their partial takeover of Man Utd, OGC Nice would become a linked club, as would Lausanne.

Previously, both clubs could take Sancho on loan to try and resurrect his career, but now it'd cost them a huge amount in FFP, but Monaco could do it for "free". Difficult one to police.