DAMN DAMN DAMN. I decide not to watch the show one time. I completely agree with them though. Platini has a complete lack of class and TBH I would be very surprised if it turns out he's not corrupt.
He definitely has an air of suspision around him yeah
About that, Platini has a salary cap plan to be introduced in Europe. What do ya guys think?
He doesn't have the power for anything of the sort. The only chance for UEFA to maintain a reasonable sense of credibility and influence is by staying calm and refraining from anything revolutionary. If Platini decides to push for a salary cap, the G14 are out and it's bye bye UEFA.
Unless the G14 will back UEFA up on this one, but I doubt that
I can't say with specifics, but there are several major sports in the U.S. where, for the sake of league parity and competitiveness, teams not only share TV revenues but there's also a salary cap for what the entire squad can shell out relative to other squads.
Lega Calcio debated the value of doing something like this, but there's so many cash exchages under the table in Italy it's kind of ridiculous. In the U.S., you sometimes find clubs where having a couple players with immense salaries requires them to do some financial sandbagging -- either by complementing them with cheaper players or, in the more confusing case to me, deferring salary like an amortized loan over future seasons.
Take the NFL's SF 49ers. They spent like drunken sailors to win their last Super Bowl over 10 years ago, signing top dollar players and playing some amortization games with salaries. While the 49er ownership changes have contributed as much as anything to their miserable play in the years that followed, another factor was the salary cap: they were still carrying salaries of expensive players from previous seasons years forward, forcing them to field a very cheap team to keep under cap for a while.
Well, considering owners of clubs have different amounts of money available to spend on their teams, you could have a situation where one club cannot compete against another because they cannot afford better players. This is sort of what happened with the New York Cosmos and NASL... there was usually just two teams competing for the prizes, and that didn't work for long. To ensure a long life, the MLS needed to make sure each team could compete so that they don't lose fans and backing of owners. Thus we have a salary cap. Or semi-salary cap nowadays, whatever the hell is going on.
Sounds like founding principles of socialism being implemented in sports. I do have one more question: salary caps, rather than promoting equal chances, constrain the potentially biggest clubs in order to maintain relative but fake equalities. If the big clubs in American football want to become internationally competing, they need rid of this system, wouldn't you agree? And yes that will inevitably lead to a bigger distance in quality between the top and bottom clubs (one word: Eredivisie) but it also means the competition as a whole, through evolution of the biggest clubs, will become stronger and internationally more competitive.
I know the MLS isn't a UEFA member and there's no Champions League to compete in, but surely there's something to be said for it?
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