How do we stop this escalation in player values

[Dom1878]

I think its safe to say, this has been the craziest season yet, i mean i still remember a time when £10 million used to be the good players, and £20 million was the super stars...

...The system surely needs to change, but seriously how? You cant put a cap on the amount of spending...because clubs will just either not sell players or ask to the maximum...

...What will happen in the future?

 

[chicoazul]

Hopefully the game will eat itself and **** itself out as a new game affordable for the working class and with players not earning that much that they instantly turn into tits.

I reminded my mate before that although he's made up with Carroll they are paying 35m for him on top of 80k a week and will still be expecting him to cough up £50 for the new home match when he's just been laid off.

 

[linglong]

Salary cap seems to be the only way to go all thats heading footballs way at the moment is a crash one the game may never recover from in my eyes.

 

[KiwiBlue79]

Salary cap seems to be the only way to go all thats heading footballs way at the moment is a crash one the game may never recover from in my eyes.

Salary Caps are a great idea - they use them here Down Under for the Rugby League and different teams are all in with a shout of winning it. One team got caught cheating and was hammered. For a sport to remain interesting in the long term it needs to be competative. Different teams need to winning competitions, not just the same 4 or 5 clubs.

Sadly a salary cap won't suit those 4 or 5 clubs (I'm just talking about the Prem here, plenty of big clubs abroad would be opposed to it too) so it will never happen.

The other option is the German system, don't know the exact details but I've heard very good things about it.

 

[Elong]

Salary Caps are a great idea - they use them here Down Under for the Rugby League and different teams are all in with a shout of winning it. One team got caught cheating and was hammered. For a sport to remain interesting in the long term it needs to be competative. Different teams need to winning competitions, not just the same 4 or 5 clubs.

Sadly a salary cap won't suit those 4 or 5 clubs (I'm just talking about the Prem here, plenty of big clubs abroad would be opposed to it too) so it will never happen.

The other option is the German system, don't know the exact details but I've heard very good things about it.

Yeah mate, the team was the Melbourne Storm, had their titles from the last 5 years taken off of them and played an entire season unable to earn any points, and continue to fail to earn points, until they could prove they were under the salary cap. Caused controversy, but I believe the NRL's hardball stance was absolutely fantastic and spot on.
Should be considered.

 

[Rook]

Salary Caps are a great idea - they use them here Down Under for the Rugby League and different teams are all in with a shout of winning it. One team got caught cheating and was hammered. For a sport to remain interesting in the long term it needs to be competative. Different teams need to winning competitions, not just the same 4 or 5 clubs.

Sadly a salary cap won't suit those 4 or 5 clubs (I'm just talking about the Prem here, plenty of big clubs abroad would be opposed to it too) so it will never happen.

The other option is the German system, don't know the exact details but I've heard very good things about it.

Germany has sort of like Co-ops. 1 individual can't own more than 49% of the squad so if there is a sugar daddy he doesn't really have control of the club. Hoffenheim's "owner" is more of a benefactor, he doesn't have any real control of the club. Plus it keeps prices down (A ticket to see Dortmund is cheaper than some league 1 sides), almost every side has a realistic chance of winning or a top 3 place and attendences are the best in Europe. On the flip side they don't have to cash to make much of a splash in the C-League and/or keep superstars. However there is very few complaints about that in Germany.

There isn't much you can do other than implementing a salary cap or a luxury tax (pay a tax to the league if you salary goes over a certain amt). What Platini wants to do is a joke. Its just a way to keep big sides like Juventus, the Milans, Barca and Real Madrid from being pushed around by the likes of Chelsea and Man City. If there was any desire to share the wealth in Italy and Spain they would equally share the TV revenue.

 

[TX Bill]

I think it all has to come crashing down and then everyone start from scratch.

That or the salary cap implementation. It works here in the USA but then the USA doesn't have relegation and promotion either so I don't know how you'd implement something like that in England. You'd also have to find a way to have it done all over Europe or else a player wouldn't go to a capped country knowing he could get much higher wages in another one.

 

[KiwiBlue79]

Now that Rook's explained it I like the German system more and more. Even before I left the UK I couldn't go and watch the games as much as I'd have liked due to the cost.

Cheaper entry for fans, none of this ridiculous spending, more competative league...sounds ideal!

 

[SteveSC]

Get rid of the transfer windows. Teams get desperate when there is only a short period and the small clubs and selling clubs know this so they inflate the prices especially now the homegrown rule is in.

 

[born2b blue]

The salary capworks over here in rugby league as well.
I've said for a long time that is what we need in football or for a big money club to go into admin.
Although from what I have heard about the German system on this thread I like the sound of it.
But there again we even get blues on here crying for a sugar daddy to buy success for us so fans need to change their attitude as well

 

[robbo1957]

Everton are already doing their bit to keep prices down by not buying anyone.

I don't think salary caps will work as football is too global a sport now so even if it happens in the premiership who's to say it'll be implemented in the rest of Europe. It will also only punish the players and not the clubs and won't stop clubs paying over the value for players which is what the thread is about. Sadly the only way this will happen is for a big/large club going to the wall but whilst you've got mega rich idiots with money to burn nothing will change.

 

[nesky]

Good post Rook and spot-on re Platini serving the "old money" clubs. There is no wish for true competition; it's all designed to ensure that the CL and domestic titles only ever go to the same clique of established winners. They may as well allocate trophies in advance based on revenue generated each season. It's a shocking, disgusting system, deplorable beyond words.

The only "hope" is for the financial crisis in the wider economy to force the banks to get even nastier re the loans they've made to clubs and for fans to become so impoverished as food and fuel prices soar and quality of life collapses as to stop subscribing to Sky and to stop wasting money on expensive replica kits, etc. But that would likely nuke EFC too.