The All-Encompassing Pro/Rel Thread on Soccer in the USA

On the contrary! Two options of trains from Worcester to Brum (the local to the Jewellery Quarter or the express to New St.) from two equidistant stations 1 mile from our house. It's an especially easy commute, just really long. I kind of miss being able to have 2 hours to read every day.

All I can figure is that the gran of somebody important from London Midland lived in Worcester city centre, because we had 2 trains to Birmingham per hour and never had delays or cancellations from snow or "leaf fall".

 

Interesting video. Not sure how accurate it is, but still interesting:

 

I commuted from Lincolnshire to the City of London for 5 horrible years. I think my first season ticket cost £1,500 and the last one £3,000. Today they're over £7k.

 

Now that's a tough commute!

 

Lucky you... The Jewellery Quarter didn't even have a station until the mid '90's, although I guess you could have walked from Snow Hill. That was the time the West Midlands finally seemed to get its act together on commuter rail services.

My commute was wholly within Birmingham - two buses - and took longer than yours!

 

https://www.efl.com/news/2020/august/squad-salary-caps-introduced-in-league-one-and-league-two/

Salary Cap in EFL 1 and 2 ...

 

This will certainly settle the argument about whether you can have pro/rel and salary caps.

 

Maybe. There have been attempts before in lower leagues and they haven't been successful.

 

It's the difference between one company with subsidiairies spread around that have to comply to the companies rules and a cooperation of independent companies that have freedom of contract. It would be illegal in Europe to have a salary cap as it infringes the right of freedom of contract.

 

Not really, as its in the lower divisions, and the loss of revenue at stake is nothing like you'd see between the top two divisions.

 

If that’s true, though, it should manifest itself between the Championship and League 1.

 

Or, to clarify this, you should still be able to see the effects, but with lower risk.

 

You’re going to have to clarify this, because I am not sure how a salary cap affects that and considering France’s rugby league has one...

 

That said...

We are disappointed at the outcome of today’s votes.

The EFL has ignored its legal obligation to consult with the PFA and the PFNCC.

As such, the legal advice we have received is clear that the salary cap envisaged by the EFL would be unlawful and unenforceable. pic.twitter.com/x0WiIbMcKE

— Professional Footballers’ Association (@PFA) August 7, 2020

 

You can do it, until someone challenge it and goes to court. In that case you lose the salary cap.
A salary cap infringes the freedom of both the player and the club to negotiate the pay they want.

 

England's Gallagher Premiership also has a Salary Cap. I believe the Super League does as well.

 

That sounds like a "process" argument as opposed to a "salary caps are illegal" argument.

 

Possibly. It's also from the player's union, so not exactly an objective, neutral analysis of the situation.

 

American players unions would do a lockout. Soccer unions aren't as strong.

 

Read the replies.

 

I don't think the USL is at a level where pro/rel can occur.

 

I think MLS will expand to 36 or even 40 teams and we'll end up like Mexico with only two or three teams outside the top division capable of competing in the top- flight.

If MLS stops at 30 or 32 though you may get quite a competitive league outside of MLS.

But then if you implement pro/rel you have to deal with things like unraveling a team's single-entity shareholding and territorial rights. It's a long way off.

 

With MLS? Or internally?

 

He means with MLS.