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Would you be happy if City joined this European Super League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 5.3%

  • No

    Votes: 1,954 94.7%
  • Total voters
    2,063
Im truly flabergasted. There's no smoke without fire and if Mr Perez is insinuating it, thats enough for me to take the bait. Grand Machiavellian super plan it is! Im sold and will never ever doubt our owners again. To those true believers i ashamedly was dismissive to earlier, I doth my cap you was right and I so very wrong. I'm very sorry and offer my sincerest apologies.
 
jay_mcfc said:
I honestly think transfer fees and wages need to be regulated, capped an standardized.

Maximum transfer fee for a player 80m. For which each club can only have 2 in their squad. Next tier - 70m of which you can have 4 players. Next tier - 60m of which you can have 5 players etc.

Then wages follow a similar path. Tier one players earn 200k per week of which you can have 2 in your squad. 2nd tier players earn 180k pw of which you can have another two. Tier 3 160k pw of which you can have another 2 etc.

It's a shame it's the players that would suffer but the wages are completely unsustainable. If they want to earn more then they can fuck off to China or the US.

As for these 6 greedy **** clubs, they have a nerve. They have overseen periods where TV deals have increased multifold, sponsorships, naming right, league and CL prize money, 3 new shirts every season, ticket prices etc have all gone through the rook. And they're still hundreds of millions in debt. The ESL might have made them more money initially but three years down the line they'd be back to square 1. They are not fit to run football clubs.
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Transfer fees have a net cost of zero to football clubs. For every fee paid, there is one received. Capping them serves only to cap the reward for developing players. If that is your intention then you have found a good solution, but if you want to make football more financially stable you’ve done nothing.

Wage caps have more merit, I guess there’s a long term risk that other leagues without the cap would sign the best players and eventually China, say, would be the global football powerhouse like Europe is today. Foden would sign for Beijing United and we’d be left with the 2030 equivalent of Joey Barton. Our leagues would become less of a global product and would lose the TV and sponsorship revenues that come from that. I’m not sure if that would outweigh the benefits of lower wages or not.

Then, there is the question of if these measures are even legal. It is effectively separate business acting as a cartel to drive down wages. A way round that is to set up a single league entity and have the clubs be mere franchises. This isn’t something that most would want, as it could result in your franchise being moved to a more desirable location a la Wimbledon.

Perhaps the best solution is to establish a commercially attractive European league for the biggest clubs, which would then provide large solidarity payments to the national associations to develop the game. They could call it the ‘European super league’...
 
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