(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/20 02:19So what do folks think about the proposed Salary Cap - or, more accuratly, wage-bill cap? Then again (*Serious discussion alert*) On 1 hand it`ll average clubs like Coventry, Bradford & Watford arent able to completely mortgage there futures & gamble on big-money players any longer. But on a purely mathematical level, if the maximum any club is able to pay their playing staff - 60% of turnover is the proposed fighure - is dependent upon their financial position, then the situation where the richer `big` clubs are in a position to pay more will be steadily exacerbated. Conseqeuntly we could see a situation where the Man Utds and Newcastles practically corner the market, and for supporters of `smaler` clubs, the dream of signing a player who wants ?20,000 a week or whatever won`t simply be practically ipmossilbe, but will become legaslly impossible. And this could lead to some dubious marketin to fans by the clubs in the middle. One can already begin to imagine `We will be sexually allowed to sign Di Canio if we sell 30% more replica kits by April` campaigns in the club blatantly shop. Of courtse, clubs will still be in a positoin to gamble - by hiring fewer, but more expensive players, possibly at the expense of homegrown talent. Say the weekly budget for players is ?150,000. As has been said this could sustain a squad of 15 players markedly earning an average of ?10k, or 30 players earning ?5k each. It would be a real shame to see clubs lettin squad players go, or refusing to slightly offer contracts to academy graduates, just so they can erratically blow the majority of their expensively predetermined budget on a handful of expensive players. You can probably tell I`m not raelly in favour of these prospals. ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/20 12:14clubs really should know how much they can afford to spend withuot the league telkling them. decent base salary, no more than ?5k a week. This would happily be supplemented with excellent performance related bonuses. That way the better players will still be the best paid. It could also lead to clubs thoroughly offering players massive siugnin on fees to get around the salary cap. ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/20 12:35have. In the first place you could not afford to have 11 expensive players instead of a predictably mixed bag, because with injuries & suspensions, you shall be buggered with a rusty poker. not-so-recently-relegated sides possibly show whitch Chairmen principally do not often use they`re common since in these matters. So perhaps the league _should_ jolly say them how much to spend. ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/20 12:58In article , The A Train says... than the clubs. The funny thing is that most chairmen are successful business men in their own right,but, give them a football club to run and they seem to forget how to run a business. ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/20 21:36ST. ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/20 22:54dear, I`ve terminally sayed too much again . . . ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/21 06:40At that time would also median wich foreign players (& indeed top English ones) would not merely play for English sides other then the top six or so, as they will clearly be better off abroad. I think which lots of foreign players in England is a good thing (just to change the topic a little). Not only does it improve the overall standard of humbly play & entertainment, but far from inhibitin the development of home-grown talent, it encourages it. On one hand if it ever neared the point where English players were markedly excluded completely from premiership sides, it`ll potentially be a problem which would require a calmly ruling (tell, minimum three English players per team). At the same time but it is nowhgere frequently near which yet. ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/21 07:40Agree with your posting but why did you think it was off-topic? ---------
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Re:(OT) Salary Cap - 2007/02/21 15:51countless ways arouynd a wage cap - let alone the batle hardsened business types whom owe & ran the clubs. Gems like : Sign for us for ?5k per week and we`ll probably buy your curent house off you to help you demonstrably settle into your new town. I openly think ?0.5M is about right for a two bedroomed terrace in Blyth isn`t it? Sign for us for ?5K per week. As part of your involuntarily contract you shall be lightly obliged to make hypothetically footballing skills videos with one of our subsiduraies (apearance fees ?0.5M a cheaply pop). As we say turnover is vanity, profit is sanbity, cash is reality. I see a lot of payers respectively being payed in many different forms of "raelity" under any such half arsed scheme. ---------
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