There is a lot to be critical of UEFA for, but the decision to close this loophole looks like good governance, for the good of players and all clubs. And it's not an anti-Chelsea move.
Chelsea found a little loophole in UEFA’s FFP regulations which allowed them a little wiggle room, but it looks as though that’s to be closed very quickly. UEFA’s confirmation that they are to close the loophole over contract lengths which clubs – and one in particular in this last six months or so – have been exploiting to stockpile players while flying under the radar of current Financial Fair Play regulations, seems to have caught a lot of people off guard.
Although apparently prompted by the transfer activity of this one particular club, and coming on top of a two-transfer window ban awarded against them in February 2019, this is no ‘vendetta’ against Chelsea on the part of UEFA. Firstly, the 2019 ban came about from FIFA rather than them. Indeed, FIFA regulations already state that contracts should be a maximum of years unless a country’s law says they can be longer.
UEFA wouldn’t give a damn about Britain having Brexited if the Commission started asking difficult questions, and people within football sometimes seem to forget how strange the buying and selling of human beings can look from the outside. But the value of your portfolio may go up as well as down. It’s common knowledge that this new rush of American owners believe the Premier League to be undervalued, but those theoreticals count for nothing if, say, something goes wrong elsewhere in a world which seems to be in a parlous state. Presumably, for example, the possibility of failing to reach the Champions League has been budgeted into everything.
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