Southampton apparently had an income of £108 Million last year, so yeah would be around £500 Million. Which is still mad when you think about it. Not sure what the cap would do except encourage the bigger teams to spend more.
According to the table in the article, it would only be Chelsea that are impacted (although man city aren't too far off either, and man u would only have ~£60m of wiggle room. No surprise that those are the three clubs that have "already expressed their concerns"). Does seem a bit unnecessary when you'd expect the squad costs to fall anyway with the new rules, unless the plan would be to introduce it at 5x and gradually reduce it Only real benefit I can think of is that it would strongly discourage the biggest clubs from trying to push through a less even TV revenue split.
They have built their stadiums to be sustanable, and keep demand high, there any many games that get 40,000+ throughout the season, some have got 70,000+ This is getting more frequent every year. The demand for european teams is massive also with huge crowds which backs up my claims and thats just friendlies imagine a competitive match. And just like that we get this. Real Madrid and Barcelona confirm they will play La Liga games abroad from 2025 - Mirror Online Told ya.
And you're relying on certain teams to play by any rules introduced and not cheat and **** them over whilst pretending they're not.
Interesting. We are getting closer to the idea that obviously needs to be implemented i.e a hard cap that brings teams across the league closer to each other. This particular proposal is nowhere near extreme enough but if it passes you’d hope they reduce the gap further and further over time. It’s absolutely no surprise which shitty teams are against it.
From what point is that calculated though, surely it's got to be from the end of the season to account for a newly promoted side's increased broadcasting?
That’s the big thing. Any rule changes will keep on being handled shambolicly if the proven cheating clubs like Man City, Everton, Forest, Liverpool etc just carry on blatantly ignoring them.
Wind up? Nothing wind up about that post? It’s a post about cheating where i’ve named 4 clubs that definitely have.
Ourselves and Wrexham (Michael B Jordan versus Ryan Reynolds and all that) have announced and started selling tickets for a pre season friendly we’re staging together in LA California. The season hasn’t even finished yet! Last time we met it was a cold night in League One 20 years ago in front of maybe 7000 locals. Now they’re hoping to sell maybe double our respective home capacities for a friendly game staged 5000 miles away. Pre season games abroad have been going on for years, but somehow this manages to feel a bit more circusy!
It is mental. Was a time Wrexham would take part in the Isle Of Man International Football Tournament against such giants as Stoke and Motherwell. I shit you not that was an international tournament in front of a few hundred piss heads on a jolly. Now they play in a huge stadium in front of tens of thousands of daft Yanks.
No surprise at some of the teams who voted against . As it probably means they cannot pay the silly wage meaning players won’t come to them .
Any details on what the multiple would be? I saw 5x initially which seems a bit pointless, and more recently I've seen 4.5x which still probably wouldn't change much
Seems utterly pointless if they're talking in terms of multiple amounts of the lowest teams revenue. Setting it at exactly the lowest teams revenue, that's a spending cap that promotes a more competitive season.
