Sure fire way to send all the prem players to the Arab leagues.
No way. This would open the door for other leagues to become more competitive.
Let the players get paid whatever they can get. This only makes the rich owners richer, no wonder they want it.
The only reason the premier league is attractive to players is the wages (sorry guys, it was never the dream of Mo Salah to spend his days in Liverpool weather) and the premier league is not suffering (yet) from lack of competition.
Weird take
Yeh we don’t have the best weather granted but don’t tell me the UK isn’t one of if not the best countries to live and travel to play top flight football.
To live not, I am pretty sure most players love warmer and sunnier place. But clearly to leave is not that bad at all, specially London.
And of course Premier league is one of not the best league in the world. But it partially because of the league being able to attract talent with very high wages. The argument is a bit the chicken and the egg here I reckon
The argument is a bit the chicken and the egg here I reckon
Yeh true
Don’t agree with the first part, even if you don’t take into account wages the PL is still as attractive as any other big league outside of La Liga
Salary caps don’t aid parity, they just screw over labor for the sake of billionaires’ bottom line. It’s a myth owners tell fans to get them to be okay with it.
"Revenue sharing* is what creates parity. Call me when the big European leagues starting doing that American-style.
Luxury tax system like baseball and it’s a uefa rule
Players union won’t agree. The big clubs won’t agree. And it won’t stop off the books payments either, just like it didn’t stop Saracens in the rugby PL with their salary cap.
Yea, teams like chelsea are out here buying the league right now
I can think of a hundred ways to circumvent a wage cap. It wouldn’t make a difference even if implemented.
If all the clubs were locally owned, which would be strongest?
This is something that should have been addressed decades ago. It’s too late now.
Think that horse has already bolted you fucking clowns
One could have a 2 birds 1 stone approach by setting up a Minutes/Matches per 12 months Limit for players (NOT the clubs, who could play 200 matches a season if they want) and mandate that wages be per/Match (or per minutes, hour, etc. Can include availability in club training premises and so on).
The over-exertion thing is mitigated, the wages thing is addressed without destroying clubs & players ability to negotiate for themselves.
Clubs are happy since they get to play same number of fixtures (even more with Squad limits also increasing to say 30 or so).
Lowly teams will have higher odds over the season to create upsets since bigger teams won’t be playing best 11 every single fixture.
The only ones who’ll whine the most about these changes are the Fantasy League users.
Mind you, Steve Parish green lit his club paying Max Meyer, former wonder kid from Germany, £180k/week 5 years ago. If anyone took full advantage of the early benefits that came from the Premier League blossoming into the world’s most commercially successful league, it was him. He contributed to the problem and is now looking to put a cap on it because it doesn’t benefit him anymore. He misses the days where his club could spend £32 million on Benteke and that was as expensive as the flops use to be back then.
Btw, while Steve Parish is the topic. He proposes we put a cap on the women’s game. The investment required to make the Crystal Palace women’s team competitive is comparatively small compared to every other aspect of running the men’s team. When they talk to the fans, he’ll happily say things like we need to spend to take the next step. But the same logic isn’t applied to the women’s game. He doesn’t get it and doesn’t even want to attempt to get it.
Bad idea in the long term.