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Well a simple Google gave me these: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2467050/Adnan-Januzaj-signs-year-contract-Manchester-United.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/luis-suarez-signs-new-liverpool-2938989 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23974832...

If you followed the discussion you would understand I was talking about before Bosman, when players couldn't walk out for free. Hence clubs give longer contracts now so players can't walk out and relegated teams end up in the sh*t. It's happened too much to be put down to bad chairmen

Disagree with that. You regularly see 5 or 6 year contracts, and sometimes longer. Back in the day I remember 1 year contracts & sometimes 2 years. There was no need for clubs to give players more than a year really

Easier said than done I would suggest

This highlights the issues the Bosman ruling has brought to football. Wages have shot up, but also clubs are having to tie players to longer contracts so they can't leave for free. Relegation to the championship then massively reduces revenue and the debt gets bigger. I hope Bloom and Barber...