Would This Work? - A Spending Cap

[GrandOldTeam]

Was recently in Wales, stuck inside watching the dreaded Setanta News when a poll asking whether big take overs (Man City/Chelsea style) were good for the game. Unsurprisingly, 78% said no.

It got me thinking, would a spending cap of say, £30m each season be a good idea and is it feasible? (£30M spent, so if you received £20m for a player, you could then spend no more than £50m)

I think it would help bridge the cap, not only would it keep the game more competitive, it would also make teams give a greater emphasis to the academy.

Opinions?

 

[Dom1878]

Well a cap of £50 million (net) would be good i think, very high, but still not too high so the likes of man city dont go over-board.

However there would be complications for example clauses in the contract, and games played, goals scored, titles won etc...would they count?

 

[Goat]

Well a cap of £50 million (net) would be good i think, very high, but still not too high so the likes of man city dont go over-board.

However there would be complications for example clauses in the contract, and games played, goals scored, titles won etc...would they count?

He was talking about a transfer cap, not wages, i would love to see most teams try to manage on wage budget of 50m a year, lol. We pay about 40m a year in wages ourselfs, so imagine what Chelsea and UTD wage bill looks like. .

 

[Walter Ego]

As a big fan of rugby league ive seen how the spending cap works in that game. All in all it has been a success, although it would all depend on the rules laid out for it. In RL it is linked with the productivity of the business of the club. The more profit you make the more you can spend on wages. There is no limit to transfer costs either. What this does is force clubs to run their business in a proffessional manor and penalises clubs that breach the salary cap.
It has only been in use for a few seasons in England and already the gap between the clubs has narrowed. My team, St Helens are the most successfull of recent times and are arguably the best team or well run club in the world. The salary cap laws that were introduced made the club think out a new strategy to get the best out of the restrictions imposed. They did this by investing heavily in youth. It always was but certainly more so now, the phiosophy in which to take the club forward. At least half of the first team are either from the town or from very close to it. Imagine having 6 first teamers playing for EFC from Merseyside and all being top top quality too! By bringing players through the youth system it allows a higher percentage of the salary budget to be spent on say foreign internationals.
In Australia the salary cap system in RL has been going a lot longer. The result is that the clubs are now so close ability wise that they get a different winner of the league each year. You can finish near the bottom one year, yet win it the next. Now I know man u or chelsea fans probably wouldnt like this but if we had a league were at the start everton, chelsea or west ham had the same chance of winning the league then I think that makes for a much more entertaing sport.
So yes I'm in favour of the salary cap.

 

[jamiem]

I'm confused here, are we talking about a cap on money spent on transfers or on wages?

I think both would be a great ideas BUT if I was a Man city fan I would say both ideas are [Poor language removed] & completely unworkable

Why couldn't have been us???

 

[Cal]

Football is no longer about building a team anymore, using players from your academy, bringing in unknown players that turn superb (Tim Cahill for example), aswell as bringing in your top of the range signing.

So it would be good to see a spending cap, but i can it personally getting vetoed by the top dogs.

 

[Dom1878]

He was talking about a transfer cap, not wages, i would love to see most teams try to manage on wage budget of 50m a year, lol. We pay about 40m a year in wages ourselfs, so imagine what Chelsea and UTD wage bill looks like. .

Yer, im not talking about wages, im on about transfers, meaning a clause in the contract, say if the player wins the title, the club gets £5 million extra, like the Rooney deal.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

As a big fan of rugby league ive seen how the spending cap works in that game. All in all it has been a success, although it would all depend on the rules laid out for it. In RL it is linked with the productivity of the business of the club. The more profit you make the more you can spend on wages. There is no limit to transfer costs either. What this does is force clubs to run their business in a proffessional manor and penalises clubs that breach the salary cap.
It has only been in use for a few seasons in England and already the gap between the clubs has narrowed. My team, St Helens are the most successfull of recent times and are arguably the best team or well run club in the world. The salary cap laws that were introduced made the club think out a new strategy to get the best out of the restrictions imposed. They did this by investing heavily in youth. It always was but certainly more so now, the phiosophy in which to take the club forward. At least half of the first team are either from the town or from very close to it. Imagine having 6 first teamers playing for EFC from Merseyside and all being top top quality too! By bringing players through the youth system it allows a higher percentage of the salary budget to be spent on say foreign internationals.
In Australia the salary cap system in RL has been going a lot longer. The result is that the clubs are now so close ability wise that they get a different winner of the league each year. You can finish near the bottom one year, yet win it the next. Now I know man u or chelsea fans probably wouldnt like this but if we had a league were at the start everton, chelsea or west ham had the same chance of winning the league then I think that makes for a much more entertaing sport.
So yes I'm in favour of the salary cap.

I wondered what made a rugby fan in favour of the cap, then I read on and discovered you were a Saints fan and it all became clear

Seriously though, the cap was largely designed to stop teams dominating (Wigan), but since Super League Saints and Bradford have dominated the game, and Saints are as dominant now as Wigan ever were in the 80's and 90's.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

I wondered what made a rugby fan in favour of the cap, then I read on and discovered you were a Saints fan and it all became clear

Seriously though, the cap was largely designed to stop teams dominating (Wigan), but since Super League Saints and Bradford have dominated the game, and Saints are as dominant now as Wigan ever were in the 80's and 90's.

poor old wigan

its just open to underhand dealings and envelopes stuffed full of rials. the ruling about local players will have more effect.