If I was in charge of football

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  1. Gravy Chips

    Gravy Chips Well-Known Member

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    • £1,000/week maximum wage in any division. More than enough to live on and support a family with.
    • £10 ticket cap.
    • All clubs in ownership of fans.
    • Allow TV companies to bid stupid money for the rights and charge what they want for TV, but invest all proceeds in grassroots football and local community initiatives.
    Bring it back to the fans in the ground, and if all clubs in the top 2 or 3 leagues are paying similar wages, we might see a bit more loyalty and get more club legends. A special team might decide to stick together instead of breaking up in search of a big money contract in the promised land.

    Nivver happen like, but I can dream
     
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    Terry Nutkins Well-Known Member

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    You sound like a communist.

    That’s not a bad thing.
     
    Terry Nutkins, Jul 31, 2020
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    I'd do a salary cap, but I'd put it at something like 10k/week.
     
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    If the players or agents hadn’t got their hands on the Sky money it would be in the pockets of Chairmen .
    Fans would still be shafted
     
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  5. Gravy Chips

    Gravy Chips Well-Known Member

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    Sadly, which is why I think clubs should be owned by fans. Pipe dream like
     
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    Don’t mind the theory but not taken by your numbers. A grand a week?

    Behave. There’s folk cleaning factories in central London on not far off that.
     
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    I agree. 4 league salary cap. Communist but F**k it I’ve had enough of the sheer greed.

    “all the players will go abroad” F**k them as well, if one league implemented it the rest might follow

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    Get rid of agents for a start. Ridiculous that they get paid so much .
     
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    Fans in charge of big money business ? there’s be people in jeans and T Shirts with a big fat bloke with a cigar and sheepskin coat walking at side of em in every football tarn keeping everyone else away whilst they told them the world is their oyster .
     
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    Best thing to ever happen to players wages
     
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    make players pay for them. It’s a ridiculous situation that an agent demands a fee from a club just for talking to them.

    I read a book over lockdown called Broken dreams, it’s worth a read.

    interesting enough the first Premier League compliance officer to deal with corruption came from barnsley!
     
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    They sent even do anything. Brian Howard was saying how there were two different contracts that had signed, his agent shouldn't have let him. If they were lawyers and drew up the contracts at least they d be earning their money. I wouldn't have an agent if I were a player, just pay for a good lawyer to check the contract
     
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    What do footballers actually have to do tho? Train a few times a week, their not putting 12 hour shifts in on a daily basis. I would supplement the basic wage with bonuses, the usual in game ones and bonuses for keeping fit etc. It would still be a ridiculous wage for what they actually do.
     
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    Few players in L2 would bite your hand off at £1k a week basic
     
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    Agreed. £500,000 a year is still an insane amount of money, but it would reflect the elite end nature of the top of the Premier League. Who actually needs any more money than that? Even after tax it's just under £30k a month. That's an ample amount of money for an individual to live on per year outside of London.
     
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    A fair few non league players wouldn’t be happy with that pay cut
     
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    My thoughts exactly, except, it is a bad thing.
     
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  18. Gimson&theBarnsleys

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    With a salary cap you won't need agents.
     
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    The trouble is, any change would require the football owner turkeys to vote for Christmas.

    Not sure a maximum wage can legally be brought in. Instead, I would have a salary cap that is a % of turnover, rather than the flat rates currently quoted.

    Find some mechanism that allows owners to invest to increase turnover, to help grow a club if needed, that isn't a director loan.

    Points deductions for any payment defaults, whether in administration or not. Three defaults within a 12 month period means instant demotion. No appeals, clubs will be asked for proof of payment, if they can't provide then it's done.

    Keep automatic 12 point reduction for going into administration. But appeals must be heard within 14 days. 21 at a push

    There needs to also be some sort of liability for any majority shareholders that oversee any breaches. But that will never be voted through.
     
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