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Premiership has to change

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posted on 11/6/11

Football league have woken up to this problem, The football league clubs have debts of 800m, The Problem with the Prem Player see it as a way to top up there pension plans.

so they take advantage of the fear factor, A lot of clubs are scared of being relegated so the spend more, to buy better players,

posted on 11/6/11

well said kellysheroes, it wont be long before some top premier clubs start going into administration, we can all call ken bates for being a tight fisted ???? but at least he is keeping us solvent.

comment by Striker (U7002)

posted on 11/6/11

Nothing should be done. The clubs should be allowed to fail. When the do fail other clubs will take there places. That's how evolution works.

Uefa's Financial Fair Play Rules are anything but fair and will kill off competitive football.

Why should big clubs be given a divine right to stay at the top?

Had these financial rules been in place since the start of the Premier League in 1992 only Arsenal and Man United would have won the league. Fulham and Wigan, who were competing with the likes of Barnet, Northampton, Lincoln and Cambridge 15 years ago, would have never have reached the Premier League or got to major cup finals.

The likes of Leeds wouldn't have been allowed to fail.

comment by Striker (U7002)

posted on 11/6/11

Ps - Wages shouldn't be capped. Market forces decide their wages. If you don't like it stop going to games, stop being the replica shirts, stop paying the huge satelite subscriptions...

I think you get paid too much and think your wages should be capped at say £60 a week.

posted on 11/6/11

I work in Sales and my salary is capped However I earn 70% more bonus money based on my performance-

This works well for me as my fixed salary is not my focus but my sales and mean than I actually earn more than my bosses.

posted on 11/6/11

VAT on Transfer Fees.

50% of players salary to be paid on completion of his contract.

Limit squads to 25 players plus goalkeepers.

Percentage of Sky money to be shared equally between all Football League clubs instead of making parachute payments.

Simples

posted on 11/6/11

The simple fact is that most Leagues look to other countrys for their players, but teams like the Premier Leagues pay a bit more then the others, so any player would want to play in the Premier!..

English National team, that is something that World Football has been laughing at for a long time, and the way its been for a long time people are going to laugh forever, and the National team isn't going to get any better!..

Mind you, that's not just English Football, that's all the British National teams, because they all suffer because of it!..

The German Bundesliga, there was something on the German News the other day and it said the League had made 140m or so + profit!..

But like said on many topics before about this subject it boils down to one thing, the German Bundesliga is run completely diferent to the English Premier League, and the League will not let teams get into debt like they do in the English and other Leagues!..

In otherwords, they have their house in order!..

comment by Striker (U7002)

posted on 11/6/11

I definitely agree that squads should be limited to 25 players. I know a 25 man rules was brought in last year but it should be taken further.

This squad would then be complimented by a 20 players squad academy team. The academy teams should be limited to four foreign players (under 18s).

posted on 11/6/11

restraint of trade will not allow the foreign rule back so just restrict it to general under 21s and this will be mostly british players anyhow.

comment by TEG (U3639)

posted on 11/6/11

Striker I agree with you to a point about market forces but it's absolutely obscene that some players earn 80, 100, 150, 200k a week for playing football and this isn't a result of market forces, it's a result of them being on the end of some Russian oligarch or oil-rich sheik's play-thing. How can it possibly be justified that billions (not millions) in this world have no food or water, even in this country millions live in abject poverty. Tell me that's fair when there is more than enough resources in the world for everyone to live comfortably.

Poverty and starvation aren't a result of a lack of resources, it's a lack of a very very small minority unwilling to share them.

the sooner a redistribution of wealth occurs, the better

posted on 12/6/11

The first task would be to abolish the para payments which are anti competition.

comment by Striker (U7002)

posted on 13/6/11

It doesn't really matter how much players get paid because at the end of the day you can still only field 11 players.

posted on 14/6/11

TEG...Come the revolution! Thousands of years ago Egyptian Pharoes were using vast resources to build pyramids to enable them to journey to the afterlife!

Some things don't change so it's folly to think they might.

posted on 16/6/11

The Sky Empire for Global Domination is slowly destroying the game.

posted on 26/6/11

Making the PL a less predictable league would help, and capping is a must, bad enough what United can do, but what City and the Chavs are up to is ridiculous, just out-pricing everything. I don't even care if we become a lesser league than Spain, what I would give to see some new blood at the top of the table, and not so just because a rich oil sheik shells out 300 mil. The fun isn't there TBH, Championship was an amazing journey last season, with the 3 promoted clubs having fantastic seasons (Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii) Lg 1 was also very exciting, but the PL, Manchester United won with our worst side in many years, only the gaffer made this happen, all the oil mega-buck money checked. Hope Norwich nick it in 11/12! But it has to be re-structured as mentioned earlier financially, what a joke for PL teams to be in the red.

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