As the Premier League’s richest clubs contemplate their last lavish moves before the closure of the transfer window, with gargantuan fees for Kevin De Bruyne and Paul Pogba dominating the headlines, Arsène Wenger has lamented the failure of the FFP experiment. Financial fair play was introduced in 2009 by Uefa as an attempt to curb excessive spending and to encourage clubs to pay out relative to what they earn, but Wenger suggests the regulations are more or less meaningless. “It has gone,” he said. “I have seen the signs coming from Uefa for a while. I thought it would happen but now it is not possible. What’s happened is the clubs threatened to go to civil court – not...
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