Yes they bloody should, and it isn't old cartel shit at all, if Luton get money they should be able to spend it.
You might like the yank fucked up model but it isn't happening here.
Both systems have flaws and positives, but to just dismiss one which has quite clear benefits - then it comes across as small minded.
Particularly your comment about women in sport - says it all really.
This will only work if all other major leagues follow the same rules. And guess what? They won't. This will probably harm the PL in the medium to long term if they implement this market distortion.
A salary cap is like trying to limit the number of billionaire entrepreneurs in the world. It's just totally silly stuff.
What the PL should be looking at is debt levels and cash flow. You can only run out of cash once.
All franchises granted by the same parent company which blocks any competitor. It is a stagnant system which more or less forces players to sign for clubs thousands of miles away they have no interest in or be locked out.This just isn't true, if you compare say the PL to the NFL since the year 2000 - there have been 13 different winners of the championship in the NFL since that time.
There have been 6 winners of the PL since the 2000, but I am keen to hear your logic?
But ten years ago, the TV money for the bottom club was only about £40m.
TV money rising is the main reason that wages have gone up.
I wonder what the Regulator’s position would be on any wage cap. Especially if it’s designed to tilt the playing field in favour of clubs with the highest revenue. The whole thing stinks just like “UEFA coefficients” and all that shit and yet the cheeky bastards try to call us “cheats”.
Lots of factors such as the draft, the NFL ownership of kit income, league organisation into conferences. You can’t just ascribe it to salary caps. Besides my point was of general application about interference with market norms and I stand by it.This just isn't true, if you compare say the PL to the NFL since the year 2000 - there have been 13 different winners of the championship in the NFL since that time.
There have been 6 winners of the PL since the 2000, but I am keen to hear your logic?
No relegation or promotion. Football would split in two like Rugby IMOUS bidding for teams aside, I actually think there is a lot of good elements to those models. Drafts and salary caps do actually allow for different teams to compete across the board, where good recruitment and player development sets teams up for run at play offs etc.
If we had a 'salary cap' in place, then you have a much more even playing field regardless of the size of club.
Bang on. It's no coincidence that these talks have started at a time when City's revenues have skyrocketed. For years we've been told to drive up our income if we want to spend more on wages. Now we have done, they want to shift the goalposts again. It's chronic fucking laziness from the usual American-owned suspects.But it doesn't tilt the field in favour of the clubs with the highest revenues, it penalises the clubs with the best commercial performance, as it is based only on broadcast revenues. Which is the point, I suppose