Time for a wage cap?
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Gordyola
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The agents one has already been defeated in court
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Its also near impossible to implement a wage cap, it would be a illegal to do an individual one so the only option would be a squad cap There are many issues with this, some highlighted above, and so it is very unlikely to happen
FIFA loses agent fee cap case in UK, new rules breach competition law - Sportcal
The case was lost to a group of firms representing players, namely CAA Base, Wasserman, Stellar, and ARETÉ.
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Its also near impossible to implement a wage cap, it would be a illegal to do an individual one so the only option would be a squad cap There are many issues with this, some highlighted above, and so it is very unlikely to happen
St.Pauli support
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Phillips (as an example) earns prob as much as 200 teachers.
Tells me everything I need to know about a society.
Problem? What problem??
Tells me everything I need to know about a society.
Problem? What problem??
Yup, indeed. 'Market Forces'!
Same as with the Women's league over here. European clubs don't have anything like the salary restrictions that the WSL imposes (with some right on its side.. sustainability arguments and all that..), so after doing well here, our best talent pops across to Germany, France or Spain for the moolah.
One only has to look at our Women's squad in recent years to see the top British players we've lost to European teams with huge financial support.
I don't like the shedloads of money the lads at the top of the football tree get paid but, as you say, if a voluntary salary cap were applied the PL would lose its status as the best league in the world pretty rapidly..
Johnny Mars Bar
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I didn’t know the women’s game had a salary cap.
I don’t really follow women’s football closely but what’s the reasons for that? Seems unfair to me.
Man_City_Loyal
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when football in general is about to implode then we will see a wage cap across the globe.
No good only doing it in one country as players will just go elsewhere.
Agent fees should be heavily restricted
No good only doing it in one country as players will just go elsewhere.
Agent fees should be heavily restricted
Man_City_Loyal
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exactly and places like France.
The only way English players stick with the England RU team is their club team have to play here in the UK.
I noticed the womens football teams are capped, that's why we've lost a few good players to the likes of Lyon and Barcelona.
Johnny Mars Bar
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Speak for yourself.
I go mainly to see the musical genius that is the Paul Hand Band play their tasteful covers, and to see Fanzone Danny and Natalie Pike rehearse their kids tv audition.
I'm sure the lads'n'lasses who follow our Women's squad closer than I do* will appraise us of the actual facts better than I ever could but yes, the WSL has had a wage cap in place for a while.
This includes max. annual spend of 40% of revenues on player salaries, plus additional stuff like assessing 'player value' or somesuch amounts, which are applied to the individual player's salary calculation.. it's all a bit complicated for me, give me a History assignment any day over Maffs'n' Sums!
The whole point, as I understand it, is to ensure the sustainability of the individual clubs in the WSL, thereby to also ensure the collective sustainability of the WSL itself. But of course, it leaves clubs like City Women open to being raided by European clubs for its best players.
No other European league has similar in place, as far as I'm aware.
(* nb on checking, I realise this sentence probably could be phrased better..!)