I read somewhere that the wage rule doesn’t apply if you can show increases in commercial revenue. Wont City just conjure up another ludicrous commercial deal or sponsorship from a company that looks suspiciously linked to their owners?
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Correct, there is some crossover with non-television related revenues. Which indeed you will have noted had you read my final sentence.
I expect that as was the case with previous nonsense like FFP there are ways of getting around it other than the obvious one of reducing one’s wage bill. I expect with a little bit of digging around one could find a listing of City players who are still employees of the club, and thus their salaries included in their annual accounts, but who do not kick a ball for them, very handsomely paid players whose salaries are making them very difficult to move on – Joe Hart, Samir Nasri, Eliaquim Mangala.
You cannot even ask a fee for these fúckers.
See also Wayne Rooney.