Suggestions of wage capping in football

[OldBlueLady]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_4260702,00.html

I quite agree that it is completely ridiculous for football players to be earning 6 figure salaries per WEEK, but fail to see how this can be implemented now. Would it be retrospective so the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, John Terry, Frank Lampard etc are expected to take a massive drop in their salaries?

In the current climate, I feel it is particularly obscene for these kind of wages to be paid out, particularly with the amount of debt reported in this article - 3 BILLION. So what do we think?

 

[steveo]

Simple. As long as the thing was done on world wide basis.

Each squad can consist of 24 players. (These figures are all theoretical)

If a team wants to bring in a new player, they have to let one go first.

Each team can spend say £100 million per season on wages.
How they spread it out among the players is their choice.

Obviously each team would be audited and anyone found breaking the rules would be deducted points.

If something like this happened, we would se who the best managers are.
I think Wenger is the only bloke to win the Premiership when he wasnt the biggest spending manager.

 

[Firestorm]

I agree with Stevo, it would have to be a fifa directive otherwise we would lose anyone half decent to other leagues.

Personally I don't think there would need to be an overseas player limit if there was a FIFA wage cap, players could earn the maximum wage with far less upheaval and would probably stay in their own country.

However, clubs would get round it. bonuses, clubs providing houses , cars etc

I think it would provide a bit more entertainment in International tournaments too.
30-40 years ago, players did not play outside of their home country anywhere near as much, and many countries had distinct playing styles which provided great entertainment when the national sides met (except for Italy whose style was, to say the least, rather dull). These days everyone plays roughly the same , just with different levels of ability

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

I'd love to see wage capping brought in, it would have to be a worldwide Fifa directive for it to work though. But the EU would never stand for it.

 

[graysblue]

wage capping is a must for me.

robinhos reported 170k per week is crazy and bad because the fans will have to foot the bill.

personally top players should not earn no more than 75k per week,dont forget they all have outside deals and if the poor lambs could not live on a measly 75k.......................tough.

 

[steveo]

However, clubs would get round it. bonuses, clubs providing houses , cars etc

These things would all have to be part of the deal and be worked on a "benefit in kind" basis, in a similar manner to people who have company cars. If the penalties for breaking the cap were relegation, Clubs couldnt afford to take a chance on cheating.

If you were a manger and had a set amount per season, you would then have to decide whether to spread it among 24 average players, or go for a few big big names, which means you would have to make the squad up with a few rank outsiders or kids.

At the moment the biggest prize in English football can only be won by 4 teams. If Arsenal and Liverpol fail again this season that could quite easily become 2 teams. 4 or 5 could be relegated, so what are the rest playing for? A place in the UEFA Cup? The whole thing is becoming pointless.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I'd rather the money went to the players then to the owners.

 

[Napster]

I'd rather the money went to the players then to the owners.

I'd rather they were redistributed amongst the fans.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I'd rather they were redistributed amongst the fans.

I'd rather it all went to me if we are in dreamland.

It's simple supply and demand. Enough people are willing to pay the extortionate prices to make it worth charging extortionate prices. Owners aren't going to drop their prices if FIFA/UEFA/EPL interfere and artificially distort the market. All a salary cap will do is make club owners rich.

 

[BoyWonder2]

Simple. As long as the thing was done on world wide basis.

Each squad can consist of 24 players. (These figures are all theoretical)

If a team wants to bring in a new player, they have to let one go first.

Each team can spend say £100 million per season on wages.
How they spread it out among the players is their choice.

Obviously each team would be audited and anyone found breaking the rules would be deducted points.

If something like this happened, we would se who the best managers are.
I think Wenger is the only bloke to win the Premiership when he wasnt the biggest spending manager.

I like that idea. Would make it more of an even kheel. One thing about only having 24 players in the squad, what about, like we had just recently, a goalkeeper got injured and couldn't play for a couple of months and we needed to bring in someone in on loan. Would we have to flog someone else off on loan to compensate?

Isn't there or wasn't there supposed to be wage capping in the Football League? Something along the lines of a only a certain percentage of your turnover could be spent on players wages. Did this ever happen, I seem to remember it being mentioned before.

 

[stevie_G_G_G]

Harry Redknapp makes a good point when he says -

"Who is going to take a cap on a contract that is in existence? If you do that the player would become a free agent.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_4286659,00.html

 

[steveo]

I'd rather the money went to the players then to the owners.

But the owners wouldnt need as much money so we could have normal owners and not need billionaire owners. Most football clubs would then become self sufficient and wouldnt need to rely on hand outs. It might help put football back under the ownership of the normal fan.

 

[RobM]

The "credit crunch" is, I reckon, going to seriously affect Prem' clubs and here's my reasoning. If a family (or individual) is struggling to make ends meet, there are two easy economies - no season ticket and cancel Sky Sports. They are, after all, luxuries in the modern world. I hear Man Utd are £300 million in debt. Suppose their creditors say "We want our money back". What then?

As mentioned, the wages top players are paid are ridiculous. But again, as mentioned, any cap would have to be global. In a way it has already occurred - clubs in Togo for example don't have the money to pay top wages in the first place so the better players come to Europe.