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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
FFP was designed for one primary reason: To protect the big clubs by making it virtually impossible for new teams to join the upper echelon. It certainly wasn't designed to protect clubs from themselves because Barcelona are ####ed financially, but haven't been sanctioned even slightly, and will likely add more debt this summer. Just another example of UEFA bending over to try and protect the elite, helping to bring about the sense of entitlement that is now ironically haunting UEFA. Even the new CL setup was designed to help the big clubs maintain power, and it wasn't enough to keep them breaking away. UEFA battling the monster they helped make is certainly hilarious.
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If this was the case though, the newly proposed 36 team CL using the swiss-system format makes no sense.