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Post by Staffsoatcake on May 4, 2015 12:19:07 GMT
Should there be a limit on how much clubs are allowed to spend on transfers in a season?
Something like, no club is allowed to spend,lets say, more than £50m a season?
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Post by StokieAsh13 on May 4, 2015 12:22:46 GMT
The premier league would never allow it.
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Post by puddledpotter on May 4, 2015 13:45:41 GMT
Rather than limiting the spend which I agree the premier league would block maybe the system could be tweaked to stop all the prizes being hoarded by and large by the richest 4 or 5 clubs. A suggestion I heard recently was that the team's who fill the champions league places be excluded from the FA and capital onecups?????
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Post by cheekymatt71 on May 4, 2015 13:51:44 GMT
Whilst it sounds sensible at first if you think about it then it would just mean more money and power to players and the agents.
For instance if Bale/ Ronaldo or Messi knew their Market Value was 100 million but a club could only bid 50m max. then they would push for a money with a 50m signing on fee.
It is actually very hard to regulate such an international market that is bound by EU Free Trade regulations.
We should have a separate status for SPORT that means that clubs are not run purely for PROFIT but for the benefit of the local and wider community with a "tax" on speculative owners which is ploughed back into the grass roots.
But I dont see that happening in my lifetime
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Post by stokiejoe on May 4, 2015 13:53:05 GMT
The FFP system deals in % values and includes sponsorship deals which will always favour the largest clubs. There ought to be a leveller mechanism which restricts the growth of the top clubs fo a time to allow others to catch up. Slowing down the growth of the top earners would still allow them to buy players within their existing parameters but not to expand for a while.
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Post by Gods on May 4, 2015 13:54:27 GMT
I don't think anyone who matters in authority has an agenda to 'level the playing field', quite the opposite I would suggest. And candidly neither do we if you look down through the divisions rather than across the Premier League. We are very happy to be on the Premier League train pissing out rather than on the platform pissing in  |
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Post by vahl on May 4, 2015 13:59:00 GMT
I don't think anyone who matters in authority has an agenda to 'level the playing field', quite the opposite I would suggest. Oh, of course! Scudamore United are back in their element now they've seemingly turned the corner after the loss of ode' Whiskey Nose. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2015 19:01:38 GMT
How's about stopping the top four signing anyone, until another club breaks into said top four, and then it applies to them? Same for every league in Europe as well. It's a thought anyway!
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Post by redandwhitetundra on May 4, 2015 19:11:04 GMT
How's about stopping the top four signing anyone, until another club breaks into said top four, and then it applies to them? Same for every league in Europe as well. It's a thought anyway! When are they allowed to sign someone..? Once they drop out of the top 4? |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on May 4, 2015 19:18:04 GMT
Even if a transfer cap were introduced it would (as cheekymatt says) simply mean more money would be paid out in player wages and agents' fees.
The clubs haven't agreed their huge TV deal to make the Premier League by far the richest in world football, to then hand a massive advantage to overseas leagues who would have no such cap on transfer fees.
Transfer and wage caps are great - BUT ONLY IF THEY ARE APPLIED WORLD WIDE - which, sadly, they won't be.
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Post by stokesaint1 on May 4, 2015 19:37:21 GMT
We just have to accept that there will never be a level playing field until Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Spurs, Liverpool and Man City all bog off to play in the European Super League, whenever that comes about. Even now while wage caps are based on percentage of income, there would never be equality. Just have to accept that we are doomed to mediocrity until all the money dissappears and football goes back to being the working mans sport.
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Post by rawli on May 4, 2015 19:50:47 GMT
A level playing field would be a disaster for the premier league. They need the same few clubs dominating in order to sell the tv rights around the world. Scudamore basically said as much when he said it was bad for the premier league that Man U weren't doing well.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2015 20:50:52 GMT
Yes, rednwhite.
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Post by wembley4372 on May 5, 2015 10:03:51 GMT
If you wanted a level playing field every club has to have the same budget (and stick to it). Any excess has to be shared among the supporters!!!
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Post by cheekymatt71 on May 5, 2015 10:12:41 GMT
Slightly off topic but
Time to part nationalize the industry. Give 20% of each clubs shares to the supporters with 2 permanent places on the board. The shares are JUST for voting rights and cannot be re-sold under any circumstances.
It works in Germany and they have a competitive league with lower entrance fees and a booming economy in general.
Owners would never want it but it would make the clubs and league stronger but not stop the owners from making a tidy profit.
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