(08-07-2020, 01:04 PM)2NaPoodle Wrote: League 1 and 2 in England instituting a salary cap.
It's probably a good move in terms of protecting teams from overly ambitious and careless owners, but will widen the gap between the Championship and L1 massively.
(08-07-2020, 01:09 PM)Neaven Staismith Wrote: It's probably a good move in terms of protecting teams from overly ambitious and careless owners, but will widen the gap between the Championship and L1 massively.
My thinking is it'll be seen as a failure because of things like this. It'll be written of as impossible to work in football, but that's nonsense. It works well elsewhere; but it needs to be taken up by the majority of leagues for it to have a chance.
Salary caps would be good at the top level of football to restore some parity. Probably be difficult to implement, especially with how corrupt UEFA/FIFA are.
(08-07-2020, 02:35 PM)Sterling Archer Wrote: Team that finishes bottom of the championship is going to be fucked
It's going to be difficult to manage that like. You can't reasonably ask a relegated team to bin half their staff to fit an arbitrary wage cap, but putting any sort of time cushion on it, say a 33% reduction for three years, will mean teams would just take their chances and in most cases romp the diddy league in their first season back down.
At first I thought "that's a massive gamble when they're going for a ten in a row". But then I realised the nearest team is on five, so doubt it's any big deal over there.
(08-10-2020, 03:58 PM)Mikey Wrote: Valencia selling their captain and one of the best players in the league outside Barca and Real to Villarreal for 6 million Euros
08-10-2020, 04:36 PM (Edited 08-10-2020, 04:37 PM by Mikey.)
Think it was because him and some of the other players threatened to go on strike when the old manager got sacked. The boy that owns them is some eccentric billionaire from Singapore. Think he owns half of Salford City as well, hence why Gary Neville was given the manager's job
Bit mental that he's going for that price and Newcastle were wanting 50 million pounds for one of those weird ginger cunts.