Transfer window loopholes & FFP explained
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman & The Athletic's Matt Slater & Dan Sheldon look at how the huge spending in this January transfer window by Premier League clubs compared to the rest of European Football.
Is Financial Fair Play - world football’s attempt at financial self-regulation - creating an unfair playing field that sees Leeds United spend more on one player than all clubs in La Liga & Serie A combined.
How are FFP rules affecting the recruitment policy at clubs across Europe & what are the loopholes being jumped through to gain a competitive advantage during the current transfer window
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.4 | Is financial fair play, world football's attempt at financial self-regulation, creating an unfair playing field? |
| 0:10.4 | How are FFP rules affecting the recruitment policy at clubs across Europe? |
| 0:16.1 | And what are the loopholes being jumped through to gain a competitive advantage during the current |
| 0:21.3 | transfer window? The vast majority of the spending comes, and this is not going to be a |
| 0:27.2 | surprise, from the Premier League. I'm Mark Chapman. This is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:43.1 | We've got some big breaking transfer news right now. |
| 0:47.5 | Chelsea just announced that they have completed the signing of Mikhailo Mudrick. |
| 0:50.4 | The Ukrainian has signed for what we believe to be a fee that could rise up to 88 and a half million pounds. |
| 0:53.6 | Money! Go away. fee that could rise up to 88.5 million pounds. |
| 1:05.6 | Right now, Arsenal have signed Leandro Tross at a deal worth 27 million pounds. |
| 1:11.6 | Money, it's a gas. |
| 1:14.9 | We do have breaking news. |
| 1:16.6 | It's the story we've been talking about at the top of the show. |
| 1:18.3 | And West Ham, we are told, |
| 1:19.5 | have now completed the transfer |
| 1:21.7 | of Astonville striker, Danny Ings. |
| 1:24.1 | We are told the fee is £15 million for Danny Inns. |
| 1:35.0 | Money. |
| 1:37.4 | The Netherlands, Cody Hackpo, will join Liverpool in the new year. |
| 1:41.3 | A deal of more than £35 million has been agreed with PSV Eindhoven. |
| 1:50.2 | Right, so financial fair play. That's what we're going to say. Don't hit. Don't hit the pause button or the stop button, right? |
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