Librarian
Player Valuation: £60m
Salary cap
Personally not a fan of capping anything monetarily, however there should be a mechanism that both allows a benevolent owner to spend what they want, but at the same time protect clubs from being laden with unmanageable debt.
Not sure how that would work but I’ve previously said some sort of escrow fund equivalent to any debt against the clubs seems doable.
Ie if an owner of a club whose revenue doesn’t get near that of a Man City want to put £300m into it, they need to also set aside an equivalent sum for the duration of that liability, it could be amortised with the debt to prevent them hoovering up players and youth who never get a sniff of 1st team action.
Might also need a stricter cap on squad and academy numbers now there are state funds involved to.
Not sure how that would work but I’ve previously said some sort of escrow fund equivalent to any debt against the clubs seems doable.
Ie if an owner of a club whose revenue doesn’t get near that of a Man City want to put £300m into it, they need to also set aside an equivalent sum for the duration of that liability, it could be amortised with the debt to prevent them hoovering up players and youth who never get a sniff of 1st team action.
Might also need a stricter cap on squad and academy numbers now there are state funds involved to.
If people like Moshiri want to piss away their (or their mates) money on stuff they have no idea about I don’t see the problem as long as it remains their problem.
The rules are only in place to stop clubs being able to buy their way into the elite which City and Chelsea already did.
It’s a joke. What other business doesn’t allow people to spend their own (or their mates) money on something they own?
The rules are only in place to stop clubs being able to buy their way into the elite which City and Chelsea already did.
It’s a joke. What other business doesn’t allow people to spend their own (or their mates) money on something they own?
Jacko93
Player Valuation: £35m
Plus cap on performance based pay, same for all. Remove all loopholes. Even create a central league officiated account where all players get paid from, like the English cricket board. Step too far maybe.
Neville proposed months ago that every club should be able to spend as much as the club who earns the highest revenue in the league if they wish to.
I would add like others have that owners shouldn’t be able to load a club with debt. If they spend above the club’s revenue it’s out of their own pocket only.
The more successful teams could still outspend others most of the time due to the higher revenue but with a little luck it at least gives a club the chance to challenge the top 6 if their owner has the funds and ambition.
And the 2030 premier league first round draft pick goes to Everton FC
Everton FC choose Christiano Ronaldo Jnr
Everton FC choose Christiano Ronaldo Jnr
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
salary caps, transfer limits, European revenues distributed equally throughout the league, scrap PS&R and have a central emergency fund in place for any clubs that do go to the wall to allow them to get back into operation lower down in the leagues.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £80m
You know we’d time out on getting the ticket in on time.
uglykidjoe1982
Player Valuation: £500k
Good podcast on BBC about multi club ownership- it really brings home the idea that there is a global pyramid with a handful of clubs at the top.
Any competition with a salary cap is going to be an inferior competition, but I say bring it on.
Let the scab six have their super league. Let them pay a million a week and buy all the superstars.
I would be quite happy for Everton to be a competitive team in an English league with a salary cap, founded on the principle of clubs rooted in their communities.
Elite Football is soulless now. You could probably make your peace with it being soulless if you’re team is winning, but the game is so loaded now that only a few teams ever will win. Better to wave them goodbye and rebuild with what we have left.
Any competition with a salary cap is going to be an inferior competition, but I say bring it on.
Let the scab six have their super league. Let them pay a million a week and buy all the superstars.
I would be quite happy for Everton to be a competitive team in an English league with a salary cap, founded on the principle of clubs rooted in their communities.
Elite Football is soulless now. You could probably make your peace with it being soulless if you’re team is winning, but the game is so loaded now that only a few teams ever will win. Better to wave them goodbye and rebuild with what we have left.
trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
Leicester as well. Potentially could've had a situation where we'd been sued. Or even worse, we could've been docked points last season and relegated while the team that survived would later be found guilty of a breach in the same period but too late to do anything.
Football as we know it is in its death throws, unless they bin off masters and take the handbrake off owners.
As well as a lot of what has already been mentioned, I think 'Fan Advisory Boards' should have have a bigger say in club matters.
At the end of the day it's the fans clubs ( whoever the owners are ) Also a set percentage of ownership allowed...
IT'S A GAME, NOT A BUSINESS !!
At the end of the day it's the fans clubs ( whoever the owners are ) Also a set percentage of ownership allowed...
IT'S A GAME, NOT A BUSINESS !!
Spend what you want but no debt on the club
Maybe ban live football on TV (except for one prestige game a season - perhaps the FA cup final?). Then the game wouldn't be awash with obscene amounts of money and teams wouldn't be able to afford to pay ridiculous wages to blokes who make up the squad numbers (and those 'almost elite blokes' woul play regularly for someone else instead). It would even up the playing field and the finances and success would be based on astute recruitment/management rather than just buying up all of the sweets in the shop. And with the nature of risk/judgement being what it is, it would be highly unlikely that the same select group of teams would remain at the pinnacle long term. Fans of Peterborough, Crawley, Bolton, etc could then dare to dream.
I dunno though, maybe that could never work..............oh, hang on a sec!
I dunno though, maybe that could never work..............oh, hang on a sec!
Nah. We'd pick Sandro.
Kevsleftpeg
Player Valuation: £1m
Completely kills competition.
