[Football] Bloom on Player wage dispute (Guardian article)

[nickjhs]

Cynically imho, ultimately nothing will change after a year or two.

Manure, Chelsea and Citeh will still enter wages bidding wars for Koulibaly, Grealish, Maddison, Bellingham and Sancho. Their income from all sources remains vast. Transfer rumours throughout this pandemic indicate that its business as normal for Manure etc as they seek to outgun rivals.

That dog-eat-dog mindset and spending filters down the PL and to the Championship.

It will only change if there’s a strictly enforced lower wages to revenue ratio law in the sport, with no loopholes.

Couldn't agree more. In Aus the AFL and NRL have strict salary caps. Sure teams try to get smart and flout them but eventually get caught and get severely punished. FFP is a joke in comparison.

 

[Saunders]

Couldn't agree more. In Aus the AFL and NRL have strict salary caps. Sure teams try to get smart and flout them but eventually get caught and get severely punished. FFP is a joke in comparison.

We used to have salary caps for football but as Jimmy Greaves and others have testified there were many ways around it especially if everyone is doing it.

 

[father_and_son]

Do PL clubs need a relaxation of FFP?

In terms of income, on the ongoing NSC football season thread, several vehement posters are adamant that Sky/BT have recently promised every cent of the 2019/20 broadcasting monies, regardless of whether the season is null and voided.

Exactly.
This crisis is not about income (assuming Sky/BT do waive the claw back clause as has been reported).
The crisis for clubs is about cashflow. The same money will come in and go out overall over the two seasons 19/20-20/21 (as per above caveat). All the same people are being employed for the same length of time.

However, income has stopped/slowed for a period, whilst outgoings have continued. Same pluses and minuses, just in a different order than everyone planned for.

FFP completely unaffected.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

What’s that saying about sarcasm

It's still a form of wit.

And you're still wrong

 

[Weststander]

Couldn't agree more. In Aus the AFL and NRL have strict salary caps. Sure teams try to get smart and flout them but eventually get caught and get severely punished. FFP is a joke in comparison.

Salary caps would only work in football if global. Otherwise the PL would soon lose all the best talent.

 

[nickjhs]

We used to have salary caps for football but as Jimmy Greaves and others have testified there were many ways around it especially if everyone is doing it.

Sure, but that is because the penalties were not severe enough. For example when the Melbourne Storm got caught they were stripped of their premiership titles for 2007 and 2009 and forced to repay the prize money. they were also stripped of accumulated points for the current season when they were caught. Just think of the message this would send, being stripped of your points means relegation. Imagine one of the Mans, Liverpool, Arsenal etc being relegated! Everyone would tow the line.

 

[nickjhs]

Salary caps would only work in football if global. Otherwise the PL would soon lose all the best talent.

Possible, but I remember when Serie A was the bees knees, we still had decent football. And one benefit would be to local players and a more level playing field.

 

[Weststander]

Possible, but I remember when Serie A was the bees knees, we still had decent football. And one benefit would be to local players and a more level playing field.

Definitely some benefits to our football.

Serie A was great to watch too, I loved the C4 coverage.

 

[Icy Gull]

TB’s comments about a wage cap make the national news. So good to see the Albion regularly making the news...for the right reasons