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Wait till the American owners try and take their games in house to show on their own TV channels. If they ever get that passed the PL is done. They already tried the Super League to get ridiculous amounts of money. If the group TV deal ever ends and that happens then that is the end of competitive football in this country.
Our team has the 6th highest wage bill, so we'd lose a lot more than our very occasional superstars. There's no detail to the proposal so we're debating over very little but it could mean no players over the , let's say, Hojbjerg level.
Levy's wet dream this isn't it
"Sorry lads - you all need to take a 40% pay cut due to the new Salary cap rules - Fortunately i'm not a player so im getting a 25% rise!"
"Sorry lads - you all need to take a 40% pay cut due to the new Salary cap rules - Fortunately i'm not a player so im getting a 25% rise!"
So?
Football is no different than horse racing - it's most interesting when contested by many evenly matched clubs.
Less foreign Carlos Kickballs, more local lads, more even competition and parity. Sounds like the heady days of the terraces to me.
Funny how often posters complain about "modern football", but how resistant they are to change things at the same time.
The trouble with a salary cap is that football's structure does not allow for it.
In order to have an even salary cap in the US/AUS model, the league needs to share nearly all revenue - almost all the money goes into 1 pot and comes out equally. Owners will agree to this model only if they aren't at risk of relegation.
If/when the ESL is fully formed, it will no doubt come with a closed structure and salary cap.
But it won't work in football as is. Employing a system where the cap is tied to club revenue, like FFP, really only benefits the rich clubs as it solidifies their financial advantage.
In order to have an even salary cap in the US/AUS model, the league needs to share nearly all revenue - almost all the money goes into 1 pot and comes out equally. Owners will agree to this model only if they aren't at risk of relegation.
If/when the ESL is fully formed, it will no doubt come with a closed structure and salary cap.
But it won't work in football as is. Employing a system where the cap is tied to club revenue, like FFP, really only benefits the rich clubs as it solidifies their financial advantage.
Yeah, but football is a drug. If supporters could stomach standing up and walking away, they'd have done it a long time ago. Supporters have very little leverage at all, because we lack willpower.
No salary cap for me. More profit sharing from TV deals and any other collective source of revenue is very good though.
Trying to figure out how to get more revenue for the Champo would be great too so teams there can focus on steady development rather than risk it all to stay up type scenarios.
Honestly if you look around the only other league that appears to be doing this as well or better than the Prem is the Bundesliga.
On a side note MLS super draft is the dumbest shit of all time. Please don’t take any sporting ideas from the USA- most of if not all our sports have ended up as nothing more than extended infomercial montages.
Trying to figure out how to get more revenue for the Champo would be great too so teams there can focus on steady development rather than risk it all to stay up type scenarios.
Honestly if you look around the only other league that appears to be doing this as well or better than the Prem is the Bundesliga.
On a side note MLS super draft is the dumbest shit of all time. Please don’t take any sporting ideas from the USA- most of if not all our sports have ended up as nothing more than extended infomercial montages.
