I have been watching sky for about 1h to understand smth about this shit so basically i will recap below what i understood:
First of all there are 2 situations completely different from each other , being under FFP restrictions and being under Settlement Agreement restrictions.
A) FFP
Every club in UEFA , inter included, should commit to FFP. This means that the costs of the season should be <= the revenues of the season including everything transfer moves, salaries , sponsorships , price money etc. This means that for example being part of CL gives us +40M no matter what and therefore possibility to spend +40M however we like being that a new player of 20M +5M wages for 4 years for example.
B) Settlement Agreement
This is smth you negotiate with UEFA when you don't comply to FFP. Milan didn't comply to FFP and failed to negotiate a settlment agreement too so they have bigger restrictions , we didnt comply to FFP and managed to negotiate a settlement agreement 2 years ago with lower restrictions. Which are these resctictions ....
One is to have a list of only 22 players registered for CL
The other is to have a >=0 euro difference between the list of players we registered in europe last time we took part ( 2 years ago) and the list of players we will present this year. And this is what is going to kill our hopes of being competitive.
Basically if for europa league 2 years ago we registered a list of players with total cost of 200M (between what we spent to buy them and salary cost) then the list we will register for CL this year should have a total cost of <=200M. And it doesn't matter if this year we will have at least 40M additional funds as that is calculated only towards FFP but not in this agreement.
So if we buy Naingolan for a total cost of 40M then we should have removed a player worth 40M from that list. Basically Naingolan will replace Kondogbia but i can't remember what other players were in that list . For example Joao Mario and Gabigol were not inserted for the exact same reason so we can't even remove them in the books .
This is the reason why PSG can buy Neymar & Mbappe for 200M and we cannot. They don't have an agreement to comply to , so as long as from signing Neymar & Mbappe they recieve 200M from sponorship deals they are ok in terms of FFP ...
Hope i was clear (and correct
). If smn can find the list we presented for europa league last time it would be very helpfull to see the situation..