hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
If we had a salary cap players would leave, which is what happened to the Italian teams when they stopped financial doping. Personally I'd welcome this but the Premier League wouldn't.
evertonfandevon
Player Valuation: £500k
That equals 9 point deduction
evertonfandevon
Player Valuation: £500k
Worse case scenario and everton get sued for 3 hundred million what happens to the women's team, what happens to everton in the community and all the charities they help. So many people will suffer. People may actually die because of the corrupt biased premiership
Tony101
Player Valuation: £10m
There is a risk but the so cold big 6 are a relatively new thing Spurs Chelsea Man City they can all be replaced just like we have been by them clubs. Spurs even have a cheek to claim they are part of the so called big 6. Who was the big clubs when the premier league started in 92 Liverpool Arsenal Everton Manchester United. I hate to say it but it’s losing Manchester United and liverpool that’s the real risk.
evertonfandevon
Player Valuation: £500k
Osman said the other day that Everton do have a salary cap but only while we're in the [Poor language removed]
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Self imposed
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Their priorities writ large.
blaze
Player Valuation: £950k
Salary caps may be unlawful to the league rules at the moment but they're certainly not outside of that. If a company has a budget to work to then they cannot spend anymore than is budgeted, it would simply require all clubs to agree which won't happen (this is where a government regulator could step in). Issues of a cap only occurs because of an existing system being in place, you couldn't suddenly reduce wages for existing players contracts as that would be illegal but over time you can bring it down to a level where all clubs end up having the same maximum wage budget.
The Premier League would never agree to that because it would cause talent to look elsewhere, but if all they care about are controls to keep clubs healthy as well as having a competitive league then why should they care as long as it's doing its job.
Think these articles explain things better than I can or have time to :
U.S.-style salary cap would fail in Europe's top soccer leagues. Here's why
The global pandemic has European soccer talking about a salary cap, but Gab Marcotti argues that there's more realistic ways to control costs.www.espn.com
This article just pushes the argument that no-one can (or should) compete with those at the top, "it's impossible because Utd and Liverpool earn so much more so it's unfair to cap them to lower levels of spending". Why? You don't have to budget to the lowest revenue earning club either, you set a budget that is achievable by most clubs but they're not forced into hitting that highest limit, it still gives an advantage to those who do earn the most and has the added benefit of stopping the ever increasing prices being paid for players and their wages. It will also mean those at the top actually get to pay out more of it's profits to the owners / shareholders (or better yet, invest it in the surrounding areas that helped them exist in the first place).
The biggest argument against it is that it could result in a less competitive overall league compared to Europe if they don't also introduce similar rules, but that seems like a risk worth taking to create a healthier system for everyone in the domestic leagues (certainly compared to the existing system of allowing a few to continue using their huge revenue sources to muscle away from the rest).
cantlivewithem
Player Valuation: £950k
What gets me is why are 14 clubs agreeing to that when the premier league votes on that. Surely they know it works totally to their own detrimentTheir priorities writ large.
Rollo Tomassi
Player Valuation: £15m
Kopite rag
Rollo Tomassi
Player Valuation: £15m
Have time to?Think these articles explain things better than I can or have time to :
U.S.-style salary cap would fail in Europe's top soccer leagues. Here's why
The global pandemic has European soccer talking about a salary cap, but Gab Marcotti argues that there's more realistic ways to control costs.
You have been on here all day.
Lapeno77
Player Valuation: £35m
Because they think that there is a chance they could be the next Newcastle and break in to that 6
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
The worst case scenario is getting sued for 1 hundred million. Only one team could even be argued to have suffered relegation at our hands.
But yeah you are spot on about the rest: the whole reason the PL are doing this is meant to show they can govern themselves and don't need a regulator to protect fans and communities from having their clubs go to the wall. If our punishment (which is already points AND effectively a fine given the cost of place money and / or relegation) spirals even further into massive compensation awards it could SEND us to the wall which is the exact outcome they are meant to be showing they can avoid!
Even if it's out of pure political self-interest it's all the more reason for the PL to nip the compensation claims in the bud because things could spiral out of control. Destroying a member club would be massively disproportionate and would strengthen the case to have powers taken off them by a regulator.
