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Originally Posted by superbiatch
I agree with a salary cap and i know its worked in rugby league. The only thing is it would have to be international, otherwise players would be leaving to play in other countries and the prestige of the premiership would be lost.
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A salary cap would never work, sneaky ways round it would be found and exploited.
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Originally Posted by gazfan
Players are paid more per week than an average worker would hope to earn in 5 years and a decent seat at a match costs more than a flight to a nice sunny holiday destination.
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and yet no one complains when business men (except bankers) earn millions a year or when F1 drivers sign million pound contracts, footballers are different though and have you ever wondered why a footballers salary is reported as weekly? No one elses is, you dont hear of Tiger Woods weekly wage but you do footballers, it's a throwback to the days of earning a fiver a week, it's not a working class game anymore and the players earning big bucks earn their clubs a hell of a lot of revenue in the process.
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- then they want to also charge a subscription to watch a game on the telly, meanwhile the clubs are apparently millions of pounds in debt
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Some of the clubs are millions of pounds in debt, some have been poorly run yes but just as many have been subject to hostile take overs burdening them with debt and some like my own club have just been unlucky, typical really the richest man in Iceland buys the club just as the bubble bursts...
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Originally Posted by nomadking
The real problem is the way that they can afford the inflated wages in the first place. Each club is effectively a monopoly as fans don't transfer allegiance as you would with supermarket chains. They can also demand inflated fees for things like TV rights because again they are effectively monopolies, ie you can't buy the rights from somewhere else.
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The real problem is after boom comes bust, the football bubble wont carry on forever, nothing ever does and not many clubs have had the foresight to plan for this very real eventuality.