sorry if this has been covered somewhere but I've done a search and I can't spot an answer to the question.
Uefa (or is it Fifa?) have got these new financial rules coming in. As far as I can see what they say is clubs are only allowed to spend what is coming in as a result of their footballing activities ie ticket money, transfer fees, merchandising and presumably sponsorship deals.
They cannot use money that the rich owners like Abramovich or Mansour fetch out of their own pockets to bail out the club.
In theory this leads to a level playing field and will mean clubs need to sort out their debt levels and live within their means.
But what is to stop Mansour creating a holding company, lets call it we love Milk Sheiks Ltd and doing a shirt sponsorship deal with Man city to the tune of say £100m a year for the next ten years?
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