A Trophy or Atrophy?

Seamus Colemole · June 22, 2011

Neiler said:
Report the posts to the mods mate, hit the triangolar button with an exclamtion mark offending at the bottom of the post - they go straight to the mods as an alert.

Haha great advice. I'll have to remember that next time someone posts a highly offensive/abusive post.

kenada_blue · June 22, 2011

Neiler said:
Persoanly i think the fair play sniz, will make football more competitive, the gulf between the PL clubs and PL and European Clubs will lesson. I think in a way it will bring football back to its traditional level of developing young talent/players and regulateing wages. I think it will give better run clubs like ours a more compeitive edge then their is presently, we may also see it more difficult for players to move between clubs.

Or it'll just drive transfer prices down and thats it.

End of the day, Chelsea will still be able to out bid other teams and over better wages. It may not be 50mill for Torres and 120k wages.... it could be half that to keep within their high revenue stream. But it will still be better than what others or us could offer. And that will roll club to club.

You can't level the playing field doing this. There will still be gulfs in every league in Europe.

As for where it leaves us? We need a complete overhaul of how we operate Imo

Neiler · June 22, 2011

kenada_blue said:
Or it'll just drive transfer prices down and thats it.

End of the day, Chelsea will still be able to out bid other teams and over better wages. It may not be 50mill for Torres and 120k wages.... it could be half that to keep within their high revenue stream. But it will still be better than what others or us could offer. And that will roll club to club.

You can't level the playing field doing this. There will still be gulfs in every league in Europe.

As for where it leaves us? We need a complete overhaul of how we operate Imo

I would agree with you last statement mate, but i think it takes the incentive out of selling players for the selling club taking Chelsea as an example they are million miles away from nearly breaking even, so Roman can plough 15 mill into the club even if they do break even. Say Barckley develops over the next couple of seasons and is on a five year deal and turns out to be a Lampard, what the incentive for us to sell for 15 mill. Say Utd have 30 mill to spend and we want 25 -30 mill, thats their entire budget - not forgetting thats over a year not a transfer window - that 15 mill is only for so long as well. I think this will halt a lot of the free movement of players especialy the more ordianry ones and as a result i think you will see a standardiseing of wages and players staying at clubs a lot longer.

This is the buiset June i ever remember transfer wise and for one reasson only the big clubs are stocking up on young talent as they know that their is going to be a cap on the number of transfers they are going to be able to do shortly.