Just imagine, UEFA instituted a salary cap for all clubs effective next season. What do you think would happen? Heres what i think. The playing field would be so level, that the Catalans and such would be at such an awkward position, for the first time actually having to economize, and ::gasp:: to put a sponsor on that jersey! what a crime. Then youd have Real having to cut some of their talent to clear cap room. hah, what a joke, get rid of the backups, Morientes and Co. and you still field a side that is capable of winning every year, meanwhile, somewhere in Switzerland, they are rejoicing. Why? well theyve proven that they can play the role of david pretty well with this cindarella run, but to actually have a fighting chance year in and year out, well thats nothing short of a miracle. Will the honchos of the football world actually let this happen? of course not, their is enough corruption in UEFA to put the House of Senate to shame. but hey, a guy can dream cant he?
that was stupid. you're an arrogant guy (kid?) speaking from NYC,knowing nothing of european leagues and european football culture. But you seem to know a lot about your House of Senate,I won't dispute that
well to defend to the American a bit...I love American sports and can see the upside of a Salary Cap, at least from an American perspective. The good: Take a look at the NFL. They have salary caps and it forces the talent to be spread out across the league. Everybody gets the same amount to spend over a period of time. Stars get paid like stars, role players get paid like role players. If there was no salary cap then you would have the teams with the richest Owners (Daniel Snyder AKA Lord Voldemort, thank you Tuesday Morning quarterback) buying up all the stars. This is exactly what happens in baseball. Where George Steinbrenner and his Yankees spent close to 130 million dollars. There are teams with 30 million dollar payrolls competing against them because they can't afford more than that. This is a guy who buys players just so another team can't. The downside to a salary cap is that there are no dynasties. Real Madrid, Manchester United, AC Milan would no longer be awsome every single year. Just like everyone else they would have bad years and good years. Going back to the NFL, there will never be another dynasty again. No 49er, Cowboys, Steeler dynasties. The talent is spread out to evenly. In a word parity. Make the bad teams better, but it would make the good teams worse. And out the window goes the joy of seeing a Manchester United or Real Madrid of playing at the top of their games. Because the top of their games just won't be as good anymore because you wouldn't have Beckham, Veron, Scholes, Keane, Giggs in one midfield, passing it to RVN, Gunnar, or Diego Forlan at the same time. So a salary cap would be a double-edged sword.
so if you think Europe is America,and soccer is american football? your contribution is as valuable as the Double's,minus the moronic comments also,your claim that the lack of dinasties in the NFL is to mainly attributed to the cap is arguable to say the least: rapid player turnover is equally or more responsible
Just in case double didn't understand, the salary restriction proposed by G14(I think) was not a cap that would be the same for all teams, but a percentage for all teams, of their income that could be used toward payroll. This would allow the clubs bringing in a lot of money from ticket sales, merchandising, TV, etc to have more money to spend than the ones that don't. It's basically a mandate for fiscal responsibility(what he clubs should be doing anyway, but aren't).
bestianera. You need to calm down. He supposed a hypothetical idea. No need to insult him, and further more, why bring being american into it at all? totally unnescessary
i can understand being neither here nor there on the sponsor issue...but how could you dislike a team for not having one?
I think most of the glaring problems with apoo's theory have been pointed out, but I have to add that over the last 2 years the redskins have had one of the lower salaries in the NFL. While European football and American sports are apples and oranges, whenever this much money gets involved problems will arise. The state of football isn't nearly as bad as some will tell you , but bigger problems are on the horizon.
And watch the quality of football go down the drain. No thanks. Salary Caps are for the week. I can't stand listening to people who whine just because a team spends alot of money they win. If that is true then what happend to to Yanks thoughout the 80's. They should have won every year. The New York Rangers have one of the highest payrolls in the NHL but haven't made the playoffs in the past five years. Notts Forrest won Europe in the 70's. Where are they now? Where was Liverpool 10 years ago? Thank you for demonstrating you knowledge (or lack there of) of economics. If there was a salary cap then no teams would need a sponsor on their shirt as profits for the most part would go into the owners pockets. Putting a sponsor on the shirt would have NO affect on the level of play on the field.
There's no reason to act like a classless jerk because you don't like someone's idea. We have rivalry forums for those kinds of things . The starter of this thread hit upon a good point. There is a reason the NFL is the world's most successful professional sports league. Salary caps and profit sharing virtually guarantee that every team make a profit every season. There is a lot of fan interest all over the country because every team has a chance to win it all, rather than just 4 or 5 teams.
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I'd say a lot of the explanation for why the NFL is so successful is having the benefit of a huge wealthy market. If the US had a population of around 50 million, like a big european country, it'd be nowhere near as profitable. Am I right in believing that the salary cap is a relatively recent imposition on the teams? Has interest in the NFL grown since parity was introduced? Do commentators complain that teams aren't as good as they used to be? The big, big difference is that there are only 32(?) NFL teams and absolutely nobody else. If there were several hundred pro american football clubs, as there are soccer clubs in Europe, profit sharing and salary capping would be a lot more problematic. How could you profit share? Where do you draw the line? Also, at what level would you put a salary cap? In the Euro football example it would have to be very very low to allow Swiss clubs (as quoted in the first post) to be on a financially level playing field. If something like that was brought in the effect would be that the champions league winners would probably be no better than the round 1 group stage also-rans, and possibly even worse than that. What's the point of having 32 potential champions if none of them are any good?
A major reason that the NFL is successful is that it is allowed to operate as a cartel for the benefit of what is a very small number of professional teams spread over a very large and wealthy country. As to fan interest, it's interesting to note that attendances in the English Premiership have increased every season of its existence despite the competition having been dominated by one particular team.
Re: Re: Just Imagine.... hehe, probably cuz you don't follow American sports. The idea of a Salary Cap is pretty simple. Every team is allowed only to spend a specific maximum amount of money on their payroll. So Real Madrid can't go around buying up World Players of the Year. The idea is to create parity.
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