It might be a blessing in disguise brother!
To be honest that thing sucks, but it might be a blessing in disguise, really (6)
In this era of Financial Fair Play, I'd rather really leave like 50% of my transfer revenue for the Board, because frankly, if we are not in that big-horse-in-Europe team (no offense to Inter at all) or/and being in great debt or difficult financial state, spending much in the transfer market will not really be prudent and sustainable strategy for our team. Give the board the money, let them clear the debts gradually, upgrade facilities and recruitments, and give us more staff. The transfer kitty given to us at the beginning of the season is the best to play with.
I mean, key player signings will definitely be make or break. Say, we sign Marquinhos after selling Kovacic, or we sign Eriksen after selling Kovacic for a similar fee, if we fail to make impactful finish in our nation and Europe, these players will most likely want to leave our club as they want to 'seek trophies'.
In the contrary, if we win much, giants like Madrid or Juventus will simply come knocking for them and they will probably get unhappy mostly -- unless their loyalty to club is strong -- if we can't promise them what they want.
There goes our 'key player' signing, such a shame if that happens to us (bcs that happens to me too, I'm at Wolfsburg). The Kovacic buyer is now enjoying Kovacic in his prime, and here we are losing our expensive-*** Eriksen or Marquinhos. The transfer revenue we get for selling them might be even higher -- although only small margins -- but the risk that the player's value actully drops might make the fee similar or even less then the coup we bought them for, THEN the revenue given to us will be smaller to due to the transfer revenue percentage in the first place.
The FFP is seriously pushing us to our limits of financial management, and I'd say why don't we let them bring it on? Let's buy cheaper younger South American or East European talent that has better sell-on value. Let's do more scouting. Let's raise our own players, bring our academies into the frontier of it all. And leave the 50% percentage of transfer revenue for the Board, so we can actually do the grand goal -- AVOID THE FFP PUNISHMENT. Seriously, being left out of European Competition for a season is PAIN IN THE FCKIN ARS*E. It's a vicious cycle of getting less revenue (no Champs Lgue or Europa Lgue) -- being in greater debt -- being in greater loss in season -- failing FFP -- not getting europe competition -- getting lesser revenue.
Soak up all the ****, and in the 3rd or 4th season if we do things with prudence, our finance will get better and eventually the transfer revenue will increase!
Hope that helps!
Cheers!
