The biggest problem with salary cap is that football is an international sport. It works nicely for the US, since nobody pays American Football outside of the US, and there are very few countries where baseball or basketball are somewhat popular. In football, beside 5-8 strong European laegue that compete for talent, you have the the middle east, at some point you had china and even India competing for talent. Even South American leagues could compete much better with Europe once a salary cap is introduced. The first league to implement a meaningfull salary cap will bleed its talent away, and will miss a lot of international eyeballs and dollars.

1. La Liga already has team wide salary caps. Barcelona has been struggling to stay within it in the last few seasons, being forced to sell of club assets to to increase it. 2. Saying that Real Madrid “seemingly has unlimited funds” is incorrect. RM’s net spending for the last 10yrs is $250M compared to $1.2B, $1B and $1B for ManU, ManC and Arsenal. That puts them in 18th spot for net spending. 3. Saying the Superleague is about “greed” is extremely simplistic. Yes, the clubs wanted more of the pie because UEFA keeps too much. But it’s also falling viewership and about giving fans what they want, which is more big games. It’s ridiculous that big teams play so seldomly and young people watch the sport less and less. People say they want small teams to have a chance but no one watched ManC vs Copenhagen. In any case the new SL proposal includes promotions and relegations.

@franemartinic2521

Ай бұрын

You have a point about 1. For second, why net spend wven matters? You undestand that majority of money goes on salaries. And Real Madrid wage billi is gigantic. They earn the most and they spend that. Simple. For 3. point, just stopp with this bullshit about UEFA keeping too much. They take next to nothing, almost the whole money is given to clubs. Kopenhagen fans watched it, it was one the biggest game in their club history. Just becuse plastic fans from middle east and USA didn't watch it, it doesn't matter than everbody didn't watch it. Football need more money sharing, more competition. Seeing same 10-12 clubs from 3 or 4 countries playing 6 times against each other in a year, is same borefest as current situation.

@jdaking7648

27 күн бұрын

@@franemartinic2521 Defo needs more competition, more elite clubs but Man City vs Copenhagen is pretty much a friendly, football's a global sport.