I wonder how many fans Leeds will bring to their inevitable appeal hearing

What a joke. So they can't sign any players in January unless blah blah blah, they will still be able to sign players. Then the seasons over and they can spend loads in the summer again. They are probably laughing thinking big deal

The punishments certainly don't seem as severe as once suggested and I think were already watered down once anyway.

Personally I think FFP will inevitably become mired in legal arguments and court cases for years so I'm not holding my breath just yet!

I agree that this doesn't sound like much of a punishment. Add a nipple cripple and maybe a Chinese burn into the mix and I think clubs will begin to think twice.

QPR appealing? What a joke.

Ban them all.

Leeds fans will undoubtably clai this is another example of them being picked on by the Football league #blinkered.

I am not happy with the added stipulations and general watering down though. If you are going to inflict an embargo, make it a complete one.
This watering down of the punishments will only provide a precedent for clubs to challenge FFp and go for court cases instead of being responsible and abiding by the rules.

Parkinshair. Now that's funny !

Just done some looking up and any transfer embargo has the same exclusions you can sign TEMPORY players if your squad is below 24. I take it though they can still sell maybe a good time to get a bargain.

What on earth is going on?
HELP!

The Football League are however I believe under absolutely no obligation to allow relegated premiership clubs to play in its leagues. If clubs like QPR take legal action they are then exposing themselves to the prospect of having to stay up or pay up eventually Given that, if championship clubs see themselves as future premiership clubs that might also be a big enough threat for them to tow the line.

“The Football League is currently in discussions with a number of other clubs over their FFP submissions and will confirm any further FFP embargoes, if any, in due course."

I think they need to look very carefully at the books of Bournemouth, Middlesbrough & Derby ... oh yeah & maybe Brentford, Watford & Norwich while they're at it.

You can see how we, and other clubs in the FL might be forced to sell off the family silver, i.e. McG, Mings to balance the books
This seems yet again to make the rich richer and vv, as clubs like Leicester with massive TV revenue can pick up our best without making a significant debt in the coffers
The problem will be when they come down
The principle though is correct, and given time and buy-in by the clubs will make football a profitable business again, and hopefully force player wages down to something a bit more palatable to the ordinary man
If this means that Forest, who I still see as a major threat to ITFC, have one hand tied behind their back in January, I, for one, will be pretty pleased.

Transfer embargos?? Toothless load of crap. Deduct points from the offenders.

Shouldn't throw your ropey opinions of the mentioned clubs too soon, as our own books are not exactly sqeaky clean

Watch out everybody
Runningout is now a Forensic Accountant!

Runningout. The only thing ropey on here is you.

Hardly a major punishment is it. You can't sign players unless you get rid of one first and still have considerably more established players than say us!

So Nottingham Forest can spend £10m in the summer but they can't spend in January? What sort of punishment is that? If that's the punishment for FFP then everyone will break it. Give them all a 10 point deduction!

I guess this makes the permanent signing of Noel Hunt more likely. Perhaps we should make a few cheeky offers. Assombalonga anyone?

This is a joke!!!

Clubs will be prohibited from registering any new professional players (permanent contract or loan) unless they have:

• 24 or fewer established players (players aged 21 or over that have made at least 5 starting appearances for the club).

Where clubs have fewer than 24 established players, they will only be permitted to sign players in the following circumstances (with the player in question being added to the club's list of established players regardless of his age or previous playing experience):

• Where the employee costs of a player being signed are less than £600,000 per annum (or pro-rata if signed on a shorter contract).

Where clubs have 24 established players, they will be permitted to trade on a ‘one out, one in' basis but only if the employee costs of the player coming in to the club are no more than whichever is the lower amount of:

• 75% of the equivalent costs of the player going out.
• Or a maximum of £600,000 per annum (or pro-rata if signed on shorter contract)

In addition:

• Clubs under an FFP embargo will be permitted to sign a goalkeeper on an emergency basis (in line with existing regulations).
• Clubs under an FFP embargo will not be permitted to pay transfer fees or compensation fees for professional players.
• Clubs under an FFP embargo will not be permitted to pay a loan fee to another club, they may only pay the player's wage (or a contribution towards it).
• For incoming players, clubs can only pay Agents' Fees as a benefit in kind to the player in question (as long as they do not exceed the £600,000 employee costs limit).
Read more at http://www.football-league.co.uk/news/article/2014/championship-financial-fair-p

This is exactly what I said in the summer about the club hiding behind the FFP when not spending , what is the point of being put under a transfer embargo when you have signed a load of players in the summer it is no punishment .
If they need a loan player they just ship one out to a lower league club , no set rules at the start so they will do very well to fine clubs or dock points

no surco. read the post above which clearly states the rules. so it is a punishment that will affect the teams. no loan nowadays happen without a loan fee being paid so that will in effect prevent that from happening. and as for the one in, one out rule, that not gonna help that much neither, as the fact they can only pay the player coming in what the player they get rid of is earning will prevent them from improving what they already have, plus they cant pay a transfer fee neway so that again lessens their ambitions signing wise. yes, I do think the punishments could be, and probably be harsher but this is certainly not as weak a punishment as some seem to think. and as for us hiding behind it? rubbish. due to us being inside the ffp, means we are able to sign players, should mm wish to do so without the restrictions these clubs face.

So the answer to clubs spending themselves into administration is to hit them with whopping monetary fines that could put them into administration?