Thing is someone needs to go first on that, or they all need to act together

If Team A says hard salary cap at £50k/week, Team B will say ours is £60k so come and play for us, etc. Salary caps at a pan-European level are probably what's needed. But I think that's extremely unlikely ever to happen though everything is crying out for it.

The value of sold rights simply cannot continue to achieve X% CAGR over the medium or long term. A lot more than currently needs to be going down the pyramid, into infrastructure and player development and community outreach. You could halve - tenth, even hundredth - the rights money everyone gets and it would still be a f**king s**tload. They key thing is to retain some kind of parity between clubs so if they splash on Player A they are resource constrained when it comes to negotiating with Player B. And that will always be resisted by the Big Boys.

Honestly if they just f**k off maybe the others will see the writing on the wall and agree to a more sustainable financial basis. We simply should not be the outlier we are in terms of financial structure, it should be the norm that each club lives within its own self-generated means.

Posted By: Old Man on April 20th 2021 at 09:58:00

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ESL filter please Ben. However this is really interesting (Other Football) - Old Man, Apr 20, 09:04:04
- If they have less money they just need to stop paying players so much (Other Football) - Jim, Apr 20, 09:14:40
  - Thing is someone needs to go first on that, or they all need to act together (Other Football) - Old Man, Apr 20, 09:58:00
  - Simon Jordan said the same thing yesterday (Other Football) - essexcanary, Apr 20, 09:41:13
- The stuff about how much money they've lost because of Covid... (Other Football) - jamesward, Apr 20, 09:09:15

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