Would A Salary Cap Really Be Beneficial To The Premier League?
With Premier League spending on wages costing a reported £1.8bn, Premiership teams could soon see a salary cap being enforced with Premier League chief executive Richard Scudermore presenting the idea to top-flight clubs in a recent meeting.
Having seen Manchester City virtually buy the Premier League title last season, it seems like the sensible idea for the Premier League to introduce a salary cap which will help to level the playing field. With only 8 top-flight teams out of 20 making a profit in 2010 – 2011, introducing a salary cap will ensure situations such as the one Portsmouth find themselves in do not happen again.
Introducing a salary cap would make the Premier League a much more exciting league and would also reign in the spending of clubs such as Manchester City and Chelsea. Although football is a sport, it is also a business, and to run a business to need to be running on profits to avoid liquidation.
Despite these views, 14 out of 20 Premier League teams must agree to the new rules and with teams such Manchester City, Fulham, Everton, West Brom, Newcastle and Tottenham unlikely to be in favour of the new rules, it remains to be seen whether the new salary cap which is similar to UEFA’s financial fair play will actually be passed and enforced.
Nonetheless, introducing a salary cap can only be beneficial to the Premier League on the business side as well as the entertainment side on the field of play, and if rejected football clubs from all English leagues could possibly suffer from the constant spending of top-flight clubs.
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September 7th, 2012
A salary will not work unless all clubs have the same limit. The new uefa rules are wrong as they state the limit is based upon turnover so the big clubs stay big and get the best players, also once this is introduced the jan window will be redundant as no one can afford to shuffle the squad. Salary aps work in aussie rules because there is no relegation and the best teams are the teams with the best youth.
September 7th, 2012
A salary cap will not make things even cos the big spenders will just give the player big signing on fees and even bigger bonuses the smaller clubs still won’t be able to compete
September 7th, 2012
Yes would be beneficial if most teams can reach limit, then players would pick who they join based history, fans, philosophy. Also there would not be so much player power demanding money because they can’t. It would also mean clubs are not dependent on sugar daddy’s such as corrupt oil tycoons.
September 7th, 2012
The same corrupt oil nations that you fill your car with their so called corrupt oil! The same corrupt oil nations that sponsor idolic arsenal stadium and great Barcelona shirt!! The same corrupt nations who have vast investment in Britain in various industries! Do your research accordingly before you spout ill thought crap
September 7th, 2012
A salary cap will not work, the best players will simply leave the premier league go the league that plays the highest wages. The whole thing should be left well alone, why is it a problem if clubs go bust, that’s what happens in normal life, that in itself is the incentive to run clubs correctly. All the new rules are not to prevent clubs going bust, it’s to protect thf likes of Nan Utd and Arsenal. It will all balance out if left alone.
September 7th, 2012
Oh it’s ok when Man u were buying it.As soon as different teams challenge the F.A want to introduce new rules.Get the Man u hierarchy off the F.A and will see results immediately.
September 7th, 2012
A salary cap would be a great idea… If it were implemented all over Europe! If it was just us, then all the best talent would be lured to leagues where they could earn as much as their heart desires. Yes we’d have more british players plying their trade in the Premiership, but we’d never be able to call our League the best in the world again.
September 7th, 2012
A salary cap would be a great idea… If it were implemented all over Europe! If it was just us, then all the best talent would be lured to leagues where they could earn as much as their heart desired. Yes we’d have more british players plying their trade in the Premiership, but we’d never be able to call our League the best in the world again.
September 7th, 2012
Salary caps aren’t workable under EU law, its unconstitutional to restrict an individuals earning potential.
September 8th, 2012
That’s bullshit! Try forming a club without being affilated to the FA. Yet no one is allowed a monopoly. If the clubs agree the players can either play under those rules or chose not to, freedom of choice. It would be similar to workplace agreements or even minimum wage. It must be good where you live. Reality is, Money talks big time and nothing stays the same.
September 8th, 2012
Salery cap is not limit on individual player’s wages. It is the cap on how much a club can spend on it’s total wages on its squad. Within this, there is frredom on clubs to pay whatever to a certain player.
September 8th, 2012
Difficult one. Why should weak ill run clubs be given a lift? I would stop watching the premeire league if teams like stoke kicked their way to the title. Salary capping needs to be one of a combinations of things. Clubs should be rewarded for playing good football. Revenue from TV should be diverted to clubs doing the right thing for football. So much for bringing on a youth player who plays more than 10 full games. So much for entertaining football, so much for finishing in the top 10, so much for the club scoring the most goals. Where would you place the salasy cap otherwise? 80k? The what happens to the money? Either the clubs get fat on it or the FA grabs it? No it needs to be shared around. There is massive money in football but it needs to go to those who do the most. Not some snot nosed whinger who wants his piss ant club to have the same benefits of a well run larger club.
September 8th, 2012
When players were all on the maximum wage about 50 years ago, any club could win the title. The so called big clubs were not able to just cherry pick who they wanted by offering them more money. At least in those days the league was winnable for at least half the teams. It took 61 years for the first team to do the double. Where there is a salary cap in other sports and in other countries the competition is very open. Australian Rules refuses to do away with the salary cap and the draft on the basis that “we don’t want any team to be at the top or the bottom for too long as it will spoil the competition”. At the moment the only way to win the PL is to BUY it. We all know that it will be won in May 2013 by only one of three teams. That is not a genuine competition as far as I am concerned. Clubs get into financial trouble just by trying to stay in the PL. They know they can’t win it. It should not be a competition for certain clubs just to flaunt their wealth. The system needs to change. Lets face it there isn’t even hope for some clubs. The game belongs to all of us so it’s about time the rules were changed to get it back to a fair and equitable competition.