UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Just out of interest which wage controls provoked social unrest on a massive scale and which were the two governments that were toppled by them?
I can only remember some form of wage control by The Heath government in the mid 70s,but don't remember any large scale social unrest caused by that governments policies.

Jim Callaghan's government attempted to impose restraint on public sector workers in the winter of 1978-9 and saw his lead in the opinion polls vanish, paving the way for the Conservative victory of May '79. This was not as formal a "pay policy" as that of Heath or Wilson but in the autumn of '78 Healey had announced pay targets with sanctions on employers who gave in to demands exceeding these % target increases! The "winter of discontent was a massive rejection of this policy and the government was holed below the water line.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I think a salary cap and closed league is the long term goal of American owners and one or two others. Remember it may only need 14 votes to carry through.

Which clubs have the biggest wage bills in Pl? Why? Do they really want a wage cap?

 

[nmc]

Jim Callaghan's government attempted to impose restraint on public sector workers in the winter of 1978-9 and saw his lead in the opinion polls vanish, paving the way for the Conservative victory of May '79. This was not as formal a "pay policy" as that of Heath or Wilson but in the autumn of '78 Healey had announced pay targets with sanctions on employers who gave in to demands exceeding these % target increases! The "winter of discontent was a massive rejection of this policy and the government was holed below the water line.

it’s worth remembering that this era saw a whole plethora of other benefits to circumvent the Incomes Policy. Company Cars, medical insurance... etc. Perhaps United could give De Gea a Krispy Kreme allowance.

 

[dickie davies]

it’s worth remembering that this era saw a whole plethora of other benefits to circumvent the Incomes Policy. Company Cars, medical insurance... etc. Perhaps United could give De Gea a Krispy Kreme allowance.

And Pogba vouchers for a hairdresser

 

[KS55]

it’s worth remembering that this era saw a whole plethora of other benefits to circumvent the Incomes Policy. Company Cars, medical insurance... etc. Perhaps United could give De Gea a Krispy Kreme allowance.

Yes, the firm I worked for kept the hourly rate the same, reduced contracted hours, and paid the difference at o/t rates, thus giving us all a rise which far exceeded the agreed max.

 

[King KdB of Belgium]

If UEFA imposed a salary cap, the clubs will find away around it. This salary cap if introduced will only benefit the clubs from the big 6 countries. It will be of no benefit to the countries like the Czech republic, Iceland etc. This where the players wages are already well below what other parts of Europe.
So what will be the point of a salary cap.

The one and only way around this problem is to have something along the lines of which I call COP. This stands for CAN OWNERS PAY. In other words for example Man UTD. owe millions of pounds to the bank. Should the bank say to Mr Ed Woodward, you now have 2 months to pay of at least 50% of the clubs debt. If this is not possible then we have only 1 choice and that is to withdraw any more finance for the club and to file for bankruptcy.

Any owners taking over a club that is in debt. Will have to show that they have sufficient funds to cover the debt at by X3. This is just in case the banks come calling for their money.

 

[jonmcity]

They are not interested in any fair play or preventing clubs from going bust. It was all to stop us from buying who we liked and stopping the G14 clubs from winning all the competitions, so they could keep the money rolling in.

 

[ganganvince]

Just thought I am sure there was a rule against state aid hence the reason for the dodgy training ground incident. Would furlough money not count as state aid?

 

[M18CTID]

They are not interested in any fair play or preventing clubs from going bust. It was all to stop us from buying who we liked and stopping the G14 clubs from winning all the competitions, so they could keep the money rolling in.

With a bit of luck, some of those clubs behind this will go bust themselves. Now I know that's not a very charitable thing to say at a time like this, but fuck it - the fact that they even contemplated interfering with something that's none of their business during a global pandemic shows that they deserve everything they fucking get, and that includes any fuckwit supporters who backed their clubs on this.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

With a bit of luck, some of those clubs behind this will go bust themselves. Now I know that's not a very charitable thing to say at a time like this, but fuck it - the fact that they even contemplated interfering with something that's none of their business during a global pandemic shows that they deserve everything they fucking get, and that includes any fuckwit supporters who backed their clubs on this.

Indeed they'd be no tears if the boss did become board & we were fucked.

Do unto others etc