The Financial Fair Play (FFP) debate is never ending, for Premier League clubs especially, whilst UEFA also have it hanging over any club that wants to take part in the various European competitions.

One thing is for sure.

As time has moved on, the “Fair” part of Financial Fair Play is now all but impossible to identify.

FFP has become such a key part of football conversation these days, it can feel like there was never a time when these “Rules” didn’t exist.

The Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules were introduced by UEFA and the Premier League in order to supposedly promote long-term sustainability and prevent clubs getting into severe financial difficulties, that could potentially result in bankruptcy.

The rules supposedly designed to stop clubs from spending more than they should realistically do. The alleged thinking behind it, was that if you tied spending by clubs to a formula connected to the revenues they generated, then “fairness” and “sensible financial decision making” would then be the result.

Those were the intentions, what we were told they were anyway.

Reality has proved something different…

It has been a bit like a game of musical chairs.

When the music stopped, you...