I was listening to a podcast today about the Danish Superliga discussing how they anticipate all of the top 8 teams to lose their best player in the summer transfer window. Got me thinking about the challenges and imbalances in the football league structure across countries today. While it’s great for the players it does make me a little sad to think of how these clubs and their fans have to almost view as an inevitability that most of the best players in the league will leave every year.
Sadly the reality for all but a shrinking number of elite clubs. I know implementing features of American leagues is a taboo topic in football, but I wonder if a UEFA-wide salary cap would help here.
Agreed. I think it’s such a difficult issue to tackle. If you implement salary caps, would the increased income just go to the owners? Is that any better, how feasible is it to equalise wages to a degree that many countries are attractive from a financial standpoint and is that even desired?
It’s interesting to think back to the Bosman ruling and it’s implications. I would never be able to argue that it would be better for the players to go back to pre Bosman days, but it is incredible the ramifications for “smaller” clubs who face a constantly ticking time bomb of needing to lock players down on contracts early to avoid risking those who develop fantastically only have a year or two left, but that leaves you paying a lot of money for youngsters who don’t pan out.
I was listening to a podcast today about the Danish Superliga discussing how they anticipate all of the top 8 teams to lose their best player in the summer transfer window. Got me thinking about the challenges and imbalances in the football league structure across countries today. While it’s great for the players it does make me a little sad to think of how these clubs and their fans have to almost view as an inevitability that most of the best players in the league will leave every year.
Sadly the reality for all but a shrinking number of elite clubs. I know implementing features of American leagues is a taboo topic in football, but I wonder if a UEFA-wide salary cap would help here.
Agreed. I think it’s such a difficult issue to tackle. If you implement salary caps, would the increased income just go to the owners? Is that any better, how feasible is it to equalise wages to a degree that many countries are attractive from a financial standpoint and is that even desired?
It’s interesting to think back to the Bosman ruling and it’s implications. I would never be able to argue that it would be better for the players to go back to pre Bosman days, but it is incredible the ramifications for “smaller” clubs who face a constantly ticking time bomb of needing to lock players down on contracts early to avoid risking those who develop fantastically only have a year or two left, but that leaves you paying a lot of money for youngsters who don’t pan out.
Yup my biggest concern with salary caps is the excess profits, I would rather that the players get the revenue that they earned :/