Come to think of it the MLS has a fairly inventive way of staying semi competitive globally by having “exceptional player” contracts and still having a cap.McLeansvilleAppFan wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 1:55 pmThis would take some serious negotiations but most all of the larger football players' unions are part of FIFPro, which is the international union of the national unions. Brasil is not part of this. Having an international salary cap could be done, though there would be lots of concerns to work around and the reach leagues made up of the rich teams would cause problems I am sure.ah59396 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 11:49 amThat’s correct. You gotta pay to play.McLeansvilleAppFan wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 10:55 amWhat you are saying is that monied teams can be in the running and teams without will not be able to do much.ah59396 wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 11:01 pmDisagree regarding the cap. Sure, the leagues are top loaded. But I love, love, love the fact that any club overnight could suddenly become a powerhouse.BallantyneApp wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 7:50 pm
I love pro/rel. I think it would be awesome to try with college football.
The downside of the big soccer leagues Is they are by and far not competitive after the first 4 teams or so.
Give me EPL with a salary cap and now you’re talking
Look at Man City. They were a long standing failure in the prem, heck as recently as 1999 they were in the 3rd tier.
Then BAM, they get purchased by the Abu Dhabi United Group. Overnight they dump billions into City, buying world class players and now City are considered one of the best teams in Europe, winning multiple EPL titles.
In a system without a cap, the onus to win falls directly on ownership. No excuses. And if you’re poor, you better have one hell of a youth system to build and sell talent for profit and hope you hit the jackpot.
I don’t care for that model personally.
The problem with a cap in the EPL is that it would destroy the league. The NFL is the only real pro football league in the world. Not like the players can go elsewhere.
The EPL is one of 100. You’d need every domestic league in the WORLD to adopt the same cap. Otherwise you’d have players fleeing to China or Brazil or Mexico, etc.
In order for the EPL to have a cap that keeps it competitive globally, it would need to be such a high number that it would be negligible. Each premier league team gets a free $100m out the gate just for the tv contract.
Lastly I’d add the cap is not a fix-all to parity. The NBA has a cap and I’m a hornets fan. It doesn’t matter what we offer, we aren’t attracting the biggest stars to Charlotte, if they get the same $$$ offer from LA or Miami. However if there was no cap and we had a competent owner, you could argue that we could get any FA we wanted if the money was right.
Having a cap in the EPL isn’t suddenly going to make Sheffield or Hull City more attractive to an upcoming Brazilian Star than say, Arsenal or Liverpool.
Just my two cents. This is a fun discussion!
That said, even with a cap, global stars will always gravitate to destinations. David Beckham, Henry, Pirlo, Ibra...none of them headed to Kansas City nor Real Salt Lake (still the grossest name ever). NYC. LA.
