Football needs a salary cap is a topic that has been discussed many times. But the bitterness from the writer of that article is clear to see. It doesn't even try to be objective but just uses the new contract deal to have a go at United.

There won't be a salary cap, but it does make you wonder where - and how - it will stop.

Of course it's going to be a bias load of crap. It's a Leeds fan trying to promote his own worthless blog.

Incredibly bitter article.

You could quite easily write an article about wage caps without being a clearly biased Leeds fan.

Being honest wage caps could be a bad thing for the PL. If someone from a sunnier climate (not difficult) is offered the same cash to move to England, Spain or Italy chances are England would be 3rd choice.

Something does need to be done though where does it end. Let's not forget it's not REALLY the clubs that pay these huge wages it's the supporters.

The guy who wrote this article clearly has no understanding of economics.

I don't know what he thinks would be achieved by football clubs saving millions on wages. I'm sure the shareholders of every club around would be delighted with this being introduced.

I also wonder how he imagines nurses wages will be affected.

This is little more than an anti-capitalist rant, from someone who is too ignorant to identify it as such.

Do not care how much a footballer is paid a week. Market forces and all that.

Rooney is not worth 300k a week, only Ronaldo and Messi are worth that

A European League is the answer with the top teams in Europe able to sell their games around the World for a fortune, and perhaps easy the cost for match-going fans.

Complete drivel

I could barely get past the first 5 or 6 paragraphs

The author should learn about his own team's history in relation to Leeds overspending before banging on about our spending

I still remember the jokes now about Leeds doing a deal to show their games live on the shopping channel

Wage caps will mean nothing unless the entire structure of football is changed to ensure the money is reinvested in the right way. Otherwise, all that will happen is the money will just go straight to the owners. Whilst fans are happy to pay for subscription tv and inflated ticket prices, then it is always going to happen.

"Rooney is not worth 300k a week, only Ronaldo and Messi are worth that"

I get the point Mudd, but if you take the football microclimate out of the picture, no one in the world should be worth that amount of money per week! Best not to think about it, I find.

Where it hurts is when you think about where the money is coming from and that's us! I know some comes from overseas but not a lot. A billion Chinese may love soccer, but they don't pay anything for it!

Can't be ar sed to read the article.

I do have this question to the OP.

Why pick on the Rooney deal, of which you actually have no idea of what it entails?

I said this on the old 606 five or so years ago, that a salary cap will be required soon because player wages are getting excessive.

This isn't just particular to Rooney or Mancheser United.

VC, like you I follow American sport, and why saraly caps work there is because they are the only leagues.

If in 20 years time Engligh American football became huge with no salary cap, think youd see the NFL remove salary caps.

I agree football needs salary caps but it has to be a FIFA thing and even then how do you compare what a team in the Mexican 3rd division pays in comparison to Real Madrid?

SLM

Sadly because of UEFA, salary caps will not work unless all leagues are made to adhere to it.

The only thing that might work is to just put a cap on the maximum wage you can pay a player as opposed to the US version where the cap is per team.

I don't think salary caps can ever work in football to be honest , you can't compare it to a closed franchise like the NFL.

Melts

For me it would be nigh on impossible where to set the salary cap anyway without it still coming across as elitist

If for example it's set at 100k a week, I very much doubt The Peterborough chairman will be saying 'thanks for that, it will be a big help'

It's where could you draw the line

The slary cap would only be beneficial really to the clubs that can just about afford where the cap is placed and those clubs that can afford more, along with those clubs that can;t afford anything like the cap amyway, would almost certainly be very much agaist the cap being set where it was

The organisation of the NFL is also socialist

comment by meltonblue (U10617)
posted 19 minutes ago
I don't think salary caps can ever work in football to be honest , you can't compare it to a closed franchise like the NFL.

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Melts

I agree, and to be fair to SLM, that is the jist of what he was saying.

comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 18 seconds ago
The organisation of the NFL is also socialist

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In what way MUDd?

Wage caps are a ridiculous idea. Imagine your boss telling you that you can only earn so much money, you'd tell him to feck off.

why you would be infringing on the human rights of the players.

Its all about demand and supply, Rooney must know how much money him being at United generates for them on and off the pitch. These figures aren't randomly chosen, fact is if United didn't offer him £300 000 per week someone else would especially considering that they would be able to buy him for very little this summer.

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 18 seconds ago
The organisation of the NFL is also socialist

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In what way MUDd?
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It has a salary cap which limits each team's spending, a revenue-sharing system, effectively a tax, which transfers money from the high-earning franchises to the poorer teams and most interestingly of all, the NFL Draft

OK

I like me some socialism

New York Yankees always have to pay the luxury tax (By going over the salary cap) They pay the amount that they are over, I think, and that goes to help the lower team...at least, that's the way it should be.