The problem is it's the utter mess created at Leicester and Everton that will be used to justify the measures. Clubs spending money they haven't got and making losses they can't afford to keep servicing.
There's clubs being denied a chance to spend to try and compete and there's mismanagement like this on the most epic scale. Those accounts of Leicester's are an embarrassment. It's no way to run a business.
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £40m
When you look at Brighton v us, Forest and Leicester it's clear that being run well rewards itself (Brighton got Europe) and being run badly punishes itself (Leicester were relegated, Forest and us were close to relegated and are again this season).
Which makes you really ask whether you need to further punish clubs for being badly run. The damage has already been done. We don't need to league itself to keep kicking.
DuncanPatterson
Player Valuation: £1.5m
It's possible that an upper boundary on spending could do more to make the league fairer and more competitive than to keep punishing the teams in or around the relegation zone
For me, points deductions aren't the way to go about it. Transfer bans maybe.
Forest spent big to stay in the league and they did (the 3 coming up this year didn't and look like going back down). Clubs should be able to make losses, but the business has to be sustainable. Those accounts aren't.
It comes back to the PL letting City and Chelsea spend billions with no limit to send inflation through the roof and make it impossible for all but the most wealthy to compete with them. Now they're shutting the door while the horse is bolted to stop the likes of Newcastle doing the same.
Every club in the league should have the same transfer fee and wage budget cap for the year. Why don't the other 14 clubs get together and vote that through?
sbbefc
Player Valuation: £25m
Completely.
Brighton getting lauded for making profits. I.e selling their best players to the richest 6 clubs.
They're looking set to fall a couple of positions in the league this season. Before too long they'll be a bad transfer window away from getting sucked down with the likes of us.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
Leicester probably accounted for finishing in their regular 5th-6th sort of position getting 20+ million more from a merit payment, more European football, more everything.
We went down similarly from our 6th to 8th sort of slot and then lost the USM money. Basically the league wants us to live by our own means taking into account the worst possible scenarios.
The clubs at the top who earn the equivalent of what we do just from their kit and main sponsor deals don't need to worry about that. That kind of money is just chump change they find down the back of the sofa but it's make or break for us to comply.
When you have that many teams year on year getting better it's going to end up impossible to beat them. Why should we watch our team getting beat by the same clubs from here to eternity. It needs a salary and a squad cap so the best players are shared around for the benefit of all football.
If a club has spent too much, stopping them spend is the answer
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £40m
Yeah the only danger for Brighton is that they fall into a similar trap to Leicester and turn a temporary windfall (in Leicester’s case the league win and CL football, in Brightons case some bumper player sales) into permanent outgoings in player wages and then can’t repeat the trick. They’re probably too clever for that though, and haven’t gone crazy with the money they’ve brought in so far.
ashwuk76
Player Valuation: £30m
its almost like we need some sort of rules for this ...
At the same time Brighton are being lauded for a top ten finish and a profit that depends on an extremely high ratio of success in the scouting market. Even with the best systems in place they will probably have a downturn and likely never truly compete. 30 years ago they'd be in a title race and deservedly so
Just got to hope they don’t hit us with two sixes
Another four would be manageable I think
Scary but manageable with our remaining fixtures
Another four would be manageable I think
Scary but manageable with our remaining fixtures
no way mate anything above 3 were done
