Caps and Spend Limits..

[Tristagi]

watching a bit of EurosportsNews this morning they had the muppet that run UEFA on calling for salary cap limits and limits to club spending (presume transfer fees)

Is this a plausable idea in todays European football?

In Australian Rules the salary cap came in around 1987 and the competition has not been better, since 1990 in a 16 team competition we have had 11 different champions compared to 4 in the EPL.

Are you guys in favor of it? and can someone explain what he is proposing exactly?

 

[toffeestillidie]

watching a bit of EurosportsNews this morning they had the muppet that run UEFA on calling for salary cap limits and limits to club spending (presume transfer fees)

Is this a plausable idea in todays European football?

In Australian Rules the salary cap came in around 1987 and the competition has not been better, since 1990 in a 16 team competition we have had 11 different champions compared to 4 in the EPL.

Are you guys in favor of it? and can someone explain what he is proposing exactly?

11 champions sounds like much better competition! it would be difficult to implement though in todays football, as arguably some clubs would benefit.

think of it this way, lets say they set the salary cap right around where everton's highest salary is. We would have to make no changes to our team, whereas other teams would scramble to drop players and renegotiate contracts, and end up in shambles. if this were the case, we'd probably win the league for sure.

now lets say they instead set it around where tottenham spends. it wouldn't affect our buying habits at all, and not only would tottenham's habits not be affected, but any team that previously spent more than them would be affected, thus they'd have the greatest position.

essentially whatever team already has wages near the mark of the proposed salary cap would benefit the most from it, and just about every other team would see it as unfair.

then again, some kinda of cap just to prevent city from throwing stupid money around wouldn't be that bad, but of course they'd just start paying way over the odds for mediocre players even more heavily, and have a team full of bellamys.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

i foresee,the return of "the brown envelope" if this was brought in

 

[Bundy]

The reason Salary Cap works in AFL and NFL is cause no one outside the respective countries wants to watch that crap. If it was to work in football it would have to be a world wide thing. They have a salary cap in the Australian football league but you can imagine how bad that is to watch cause they can only afford cruddy players.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You have to consider also that the English rugby league has had a cap, as has English rugby union. In League there have been just 4 winners of Super League, in Union there have been just three.

Both League and Union have suffered from larger caps on offer elsewhere, with Union poaching players from League, and the French Union poaching players from the English Union.

 

[Cal]

It won't do much, i don't see the point.

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

It will never happen. The only way it could happen is if the biggest clubs in England/Europe got behind it. These clubs are the biggest because they have the funds that allow them to attract the best players in the world, if you put a cap on wages/transfer fees they would no longer have the advantage that they currently have so they'd never agree to it.

I don't think it's right anyway, if a club wants to spend huge money to sign players and has the finances to let them, they should be allowed to. If you're 1 of the best in the world at what you do you should be able to earn as much as someone is willing to pay you. The top actors get stupid money, the top musicians do, the top businessmen do, the top racing drivers do. Why should people involved in football, which is 1 of the biggest, wealthiest industries in the world have their earnings capped at a certain level?

It would create a more level playing field but the majority of the clubs are at the top because they've earned the right to be, they've worked their way up & have now established themselves at the top along with some other teams. Should they have their advantage taken away from them now? No, that defeats the object of competitive sport. They shouldn't just change the rules because a few teams are having continued success

 

[leningan]

I believe Platini is proposing a percentage of turnover cap. That is, he wants to ensure that teams will spend relatively within their means, as opposed to leveraging themselves to the hilt and collapsing when the banks come calling. I have heard 50%-60% of turnover. I am not sure what this entails (gate, merch, tv rights, cup payouts, etc.) Also not sure what teams are currently spending and I doubt a system like this will come about until some "big" teams start going into administration. I like the idea simply for the fact that it rewards teams for sustaining a dedicated fanbase and continually performing well. Thus, were this system in place and one of the top teams missed out on the CL, they would have to curtail their spending accordingly.