Uefa's FFP is 40 Odd Years Too Late, How Will Manchester City Lineup For 2011/12

40 odd years too late because they allowed clubs like Real Madrid and United, Liverpool and AC Milan free reign to spend huge amounts of cash to achieve glory, Uefa formed in 1954 (57 years ago) and now that those clubs have done so they have nothing to lose. Well that's what they thought anyway but, you can not evade the tax man for long and can not hide from the banks for eternity.

Manchester City are doing everything in their power to work with Uefa despite this direct attack, Uefa pretend that the FFP is to make sure each and every club in European football competition has parity.

Think again though because its just Uefa's smoke screen for trying to stop Manchester City from in their eyes, devaluing football. They fear us that much and the FFP is hardly going to level the playing field, how on earth are clubs like Bangor City, FK Partizan or Shamrock Rovers going to gain a parity with clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona and Real Madrid (I didn't add United to the list because they are about to crash and burn). unless a very rich owner purchased them?

With all due respect to clubs like Bangor and Shamrock, the FFP will not solve anything for them unless they all of a sudden like Manchester happened to gain a very rich owner. Many people have this naive notion that the best way to achieve glory i.e. Champions League football is to grow via an academy, in this day and age that sort of view is an uneducated and moronic one.

For example Arsenal run an academy with which many believe is almost up there with Barcelona's famed academy, the real picture though is that Arsenal poach a majority of the academy graduates from other clubs and grass root academies where as Barcelona have strong ties with South America not to mention Spain.

Far too many academies are below par and in the real world a club can not achieve sustained Champions League football solely on the strength of an academy.

I believe the FFP is purely to put a stop to wild spending, in simple terms Uefa are throwing their weight around and are no different than Fifa, Uefa's parent.

Are they attacking the real problems in world football?, I believe not because they should be banning the player Agents who inflate delibrately to make more money for themselves. Add to the list punishing clubs like Udinese who try to create bidding wars like the Sanchez saga, then add punishing clubs like United who sold Cristiano Ronaldo for £80 million sterling.

For decades Uefa allowed Real Madrid and United so spend large amounts but, only now are throwing their weight around treating clubs like Manchester City like we're the anti christ.

There is only one reason for Uefa bringing in the FFP, because clubs like Bayern Munich, United, Arsenal, Liverpool and AC Milan hate what Manchester City have become.

With that out the way we can rest easy knowing that Manchester City are in contact with Uefa and our club only have to show Uefa that we will fall within the FFP rule of which we will.

Now here is how Manchester City may well line up for season 11/12

GOALKEEPERS: Joe Hart, Eirik Johansen, Loris Karius, Stuart Taylor

CENTERBACKS: Dedryck Boyata, Vincent Kompany, Joleon Lescott, Stefan Savic, Frederic Veseli, Kolo Toure

FULLBACKS: Ryan McGivern, Micah Richards, Aleksandar Kolarov, Gaël Clichy, Pablo Zabaleta

MIDFIELDERS: Gareth Barry, Nigel de Jong, James Milner, David Silva, Yaya Toure **SAMIR NASRI**, Abdul Razak

WINGERS: Adam Johnson, Vladimir Weiss, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Andrea Mancini

FORWARDS, Mario Balotelli, Edin Dzeko, John Guidetti, **SERGIO AGUERO**

Even without Carlos Tevez that's a big improvement on last season including minus Aguero and Nasri.