What football law change would you propose ?

[summerisle]

If Salah falls over in the box it's an automatic penalty to the opposing team.

 

[zzr45]

You are on about a completely different concept that the Peterborough chairman raised last season

I’m talking about a pool of young talented footballers under the age of 18 that would be declaring themselves for prem clubs only and then a draft system / lottery system to determine which player each club gets

i.e jadon sancho, Phil foden, Callum Hudson odoi etc would have been put in a pool of youn players let’s say upward of 60 players and then the 20 Prem sides take turns choosing a player for that pool with the teams who got promoted getting first picks etc.. the club then gets the talented player and can choose to use them or develop them or send them out on loan. It would stop the top teams from stealing all the talented youth players.

And who’s training these youth players exactly? Are teams going to spend the money they do on academies/scholarships for young players if they could lose them at the age of 18? Who’s going to compensate these young players?

It’s an absolute ridiculous idea with about as much grounding in reality as saying one player per team is allowed a jet pack.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

If a penalty taker makes a stupid run-up , like Pogba , the goalie has the right to run out and volley him into the stand .

I'd love to see our mad beast of a keeper volley Pogba into the stand.

 

[chrissyjack]

I'd love to see our mad beast of a keeper volley Pogba into the stand.

Right into the Top Balcony. Something for Pogba to
put on his instagram

 

[RaleighBlue]

You are on about a completely different concept that the Peterborough chairman raised last season

I’m talking about a pool of young talented footballers under the age of 18 that would be declaring themselves for prem clubs only and then a draft system / lottery system to determine which player each club gets

i.e jadon sancho, Phil foden, Callum Hudson odoi etc would have been put in a pool of youn players let’s say upward of 60 players and then the 20 Prem sides take turns choosing a player for that pool with the teams who got promoted getting first picks etc.. the club then gets the talented player and can choose to use them or develop them or send them out on loan. It would stop the top teams from stealing all the talented youth players.

The problem with drafts (in the US) is that they unfairly penalize players financially. Rather than being able to shop themselves around for the best deal, they are tied to a single club which has their rights. This is not anti-competitive from a sporting perspective, but is anti-competitive from a market perspective. Throughout U.S. sports you end up with teams able to underpay players because they have no feasible alternative (a rookie contract in the NBA or NFL is still much more than you can make in non-US leagues). Drafts enable owner collusion to repress salaries. For some this may be seen as a benefit, of course, but I think the knock on effect would be horrifically problematic in football.

Football is different. You'd see big young talent leave England and go to leagues that are willing to pay more and do not have a draft system preventing fair market value for their contracts.

Sancho would never play in England if it had a draft and say, Spain, did not.

 

[RomanReigns]

And who’s training these youth players exactly? Are teams going to spend the money they do on academies/scholarships for young players if they could lose them at the age of 18? Who’s going to compensate these young players?

It’s an absolute ridiculous idea with about as much grounding in reality as saying one player per team is allowed a jet pack.

There’s no point arguing with a brick wall

If you want the top 6 sides to continue to buy and hoard all the best young players in the world and finish in the top 6 every season then that’s fine you can enjoy that mundane and boring system

If you can’t see that a draft system would result in fairness for every team involved in the league and would benefit everyone then that’s your loss

 

[RaleighBlue]

There’s no point arguing with a brick wall

If you want the top 6 sides to continue to buy and hoard all the best young players in the world and finish in the top 6 every season then that’s fine you can enjoy that mundane and boring system

If you can’t see that a draft system would result in fairness for every team involved in the league and would benefit everyone then that’s your loss

I prefer revenue sharing as the best way to handle the disparity between the Haves and Have-Nots.

It's not perfect, of course, but nothing is. This at least does not unfairly place the burden of competitive balance on the players.

 

[Cool_Blue]

The only way to start levelling the playing field is to have some kind of draft system similar to the NFL. No idea how it would work though.

On second thoughts, it wouldn’t.

 

[Westend Blue]

id Like to see the option instead of a throw a player can take a quick free kick from balls that go out of bounds

 

[ClausThomsen]

No it’s a really bad idea that doesn’t take in to account the cultural differences between the two countries or the youth development systems in place.

If we had a great 16 year old prospect would we be happy for him to be transferred to Macclesfield because they had the first draft pick?

It’s actual nonsense.

But that's not how it works. Junior football and the development of young footballers wouldn't be the job of professional football clubs. Draft eligible players have spent their time playing for colleges or, sometimes, the armed forces sports sides. It's a big reason that college football is so big, competitive and well followed over in the States. It does a much better job of teaching young players to cope with pressure and expectation.

It'll never happen over here but it's arguably very much a better pathway into professional sport for potential young players given that it encourages regular school attendance and an emphasis on the importance of further education rather than having teams "helping" out families of young players to encourage them to sign up and then dropping them in the highly likely event that it doesn't work out.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Football is different. You'd see big young talent leave England and go to leagues that are willing to pay more and do not have a draft system preventing fair market value for their contracts.

Sancho would never play in England if it had a draft and say, Spain, did not.

Sancho never did play in England did he?

 

[RaleighBlue]

Sancho never did play in England did he?

Not as far as I know, no. The point is that no young player of his caliber *would* because they could go make more money outside of the English leagues if the English leagues had a draft and other European leagues did not.

Say you're a top young player of 16-18 years old. Do you declare for a draft, which gives a single team the right to negotiate with you (and no other team can sign you), or do you bounce over to Spain where the market can set your price?

What if you get 'drafted' by Huddersfield? Do you negotiate with them? Or go to Germany and play for Dortmund.

 

[blue61]

Teams in red who dance with the devil get relegated every six months.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Not as far as I know, no. The point is that no young player of his caliber *would* because they could go make more money outside of the English leagues if the English leagues had a draft and other European leagues did not.

Say you're a top young player of 16-18 years old. Do you declare for a draft, which gives a single team the right to negotiate with you (and no other team can sign you), or do you bounce over to Spain where the market can set your price?

What if you get 'drafted' by Huddersfield? Do you negotiate with them? Or go to Germany and play for Dortmund.

I suppose it depends on the level that a draft contract is set at, whether there's a sliding scale for which round you are picked and ultimately whether at 16-18 you fancy going living abroad.

It's no worse a system than giving some 16 year olds 20k a week without them ever playing and dumping the vast majority out on their ear after spending 5 years encouraging them to focus on football at the expense of their education and development as a person.

 

[RaleighBlue]

I suppose it depends on the level that a draft contract is set at, whether there's a sliding scale for which round you are picked and ultimately whether at 16-18 you fancy going living abroad.

It's no worse a system than giving some 16 year olds 20k a week without them ever playing and dumping the vast majority out on their ear after spending 5 years encouraging them to focus on football at the expense of their education and development as a person.

I could well be wrong. I just see the issues with drafts in the US regarding supremely talented young players being paid well below normal market value and am unsure how that would play out in a sport that has more than one major league in the world.

As I mentioned before, I think revenue sharing models are a better way to spread the talent around a league without placing undue burden on the players(as much as any young person making a normal yearly salary per week can be burdened ; but money in sport is obscene and IO'd rather the owners take a financial hit over the players). It also makes sense to me from a fairness perspective - would Liverpool/United/et. al. be able to bring in so much revenue if they didn't have opposition?

It could work, maybe, to have a draft, I just don't think the American model works outside of American sports due to the history and respective worldwide appeal.