New PL financial controls | Clubs agree squad spending cap 'in principle'

Gorbachev said:
I agree mate, but that is the model that happens in the USA under the draft.

A player can find out one morning he is moving from LA to Seattle and that's that, off you go.

That's the end game for the US owners in my opinion.
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Yeh you're right I didn't address that but unlike the US, should we 'enforce' the move to Middlesbrough, they'll just stay abroad.

They have more options......
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Simple solution: Socialize TV revenues!

€2,000,000,000 TV rights revenues equals €100,000,000 per club.

Multiply by 6 equals €600,000,000 total first team squad expenses. Profits based of the excess revenues above that level can be spent on a schedule:

e.g.
30% spent on reducing ticket prices,
30% spent on facilities
10% spent on the Community/Grassroots
30% to ownership

Spitballing.
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I suppose it depends what the point of the rules is: if it is really about increasing competition in the PL, I really don't see a point in anchoring squad spend. The PL wants to increase competition, let clubs spend what they want as long as it isn't debt based and there is some proactive control over equity investment and community assets. The top clubs are hamstrung by the UEFA FFP anyway, so what is the point of the 85% rule if you want "smaller" clubs to catch up?

It seems to me there is no strong strategic guidance from the PL and the rules lurch from one idea to another without any firm principle based on what a few clubs feel strongly about. Let's hear what the PL actually want to achieve and then we can judge the new rules. It's all a bit camel/horse at the minute: they want the league to be more competitive but they don't want the smaller clubs to be able to challenge. So what is the fucking point? Typical Masters bullshit.
 
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Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Won't be long before £150m is the standard for a bang average player. Does that mean the academies are the answer? What will happen is that we will read about City hoovering up all the young five 'n six year olds to make sure none slip through the home grown net.
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Why does Chitty Chitty Bang Bang spring to mind ;-)
 
halfcenturyup said:
OK, here goes. It's complicated.

And nobody really knows, yet. This is just another leak from a PL meeting.

But it appears that what a club can spend on the squad will be restricted to a multiple of the PL broadcast income of the lowest club in the league.

So if Sheffield United are making 100 million from the PL, no club can spend more than 4, 5 or 6 times that (multiple is unclear) on wages and amortisation.

So if a top club's revenue goes up, it can't spend more on the squad as they will go over the limit. Super profits!

For City, it will limit our competitiveness in Europe and our dominance in the PL.

For Newcastle, it, in theory at least, if there are no other financial controls, means they can spend the same as the top clubs even if their revenues are much smaller.

Too long?

Edit: It seems the 85% squad rule will still be in place, so Newcastle can still only spend 85% of their smaller revenue on the above example.
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Ta mate much appreciated :)
 
theres only one carlito said:
I can see TV rights being a huge auction, this could this be the end of skys monopoly on the premier league?
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Sky don't have a monopoly on the Premier League. They share the rights with TNT. I'd actually rather they (or someone) had a monopoly so there was only one ridiculously overpriced provider to pay every month.
 
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