Money

Personally i dont think Mark Hughes is in charge of transfers, i mean Craig Bellamy 14mil ??? If Mark Hughes is as good a manager as everyone think he is (including me) why would he pay the prices he has for mediocre players like santa cruz and bellamy.

The whole "Man City" ruining football is rubbish. Like many people have said its happened before and will happen again. Jealousy is more a better word. If it was my team i would love a crack at the big four, im just happy to have some money to spend.

I just hope it pays off for Man City as I cant remember a defender they have bought and that was their weaklink last season.
 
Mallakith said:
Salary cap in football is essential if you want to keep all clubs interested, but is highly unlikely to be voted in when 4 premiership clubs a year get the 30 million cashcow that is the european cup.

Rugby Union went professional shortly after the 1995 world cup and the Guinness Premiership (as is now) was awash with clubs that splashed cash like it was going out of fashion (Richmond as an example but there are many more) and found that the fan base did not sustain the spending (at many clubs).

Some clubs such as Gloucester Bath and Leicester could rely on large gates and didnt have the "sugar daddy" so were largely untroubled but in order to quell the flow of clubs going out of business a salary cap was implemented.



The cap is on the maximum amount of money a club can spend in total on the playing staff and I think it works extremely well in Rugger and could be translated using "sensible" budgets to football.

Basically with the salary cap you can have 2 or 3 top earning players 2 or 3 high earners and the rest on an average to good salary. Should some of your youngsters progress to international standard and want the top salary you have to juggle your resources.

This would then have the effect of making a team (such as Man U for an example) have the ability to sign the best player in the world but the rest of the team would have to be made up with "lesser lights" and younger players.

The counter of course is to build a workmanlike team of 11 "good" rather than great players and have more consistency in your play.

It would make the top divisions a fairer place as (even though im a Derby fan) the lack of any real variety in who has a chance of winning doesnt half make the premiership dull.

But then the top teams would never accept this as they all have 600 billion pound debts they cant service without the european cup.

How about a salary cap of the mean winnings from the division but the cap only applies to the base salary? that might work, so if you're winning cups etc you could offer a reasonable salary and use the competition winnings to pay goal/win bonuses...
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The exact same idea was implemented in the NFL, with great results. I believe that salary caps would make it possible for medium clubs with good managers and good planning to chalenge for the title. Nowadays, in Europe, football is extremely boring, because you always know the two, or maybe three, teams, that can win in England, Spain and Italy. Come on, would anyone bet outside Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Barcelona, Real and Inter? Is there any other club capable of winning?

By the way, isn´t that one of the great funs of FM? To make a small club champion, wich in reality is almost impossible to happen?
 
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thats a valid point but i still think in the long run it would be the same. Signing on fees aint capped and that is a way to lure a player with big bucks upfront. Plus if some one offered me 20k a week to play for either man utd or portsmouth i would pick man u. I think people mostly play for the big four because they are the big four. Owen left a 120k a week contract to join for 50k at man u
 
Grixy said:
thats a valid point but i still think in the long run it would be the same. Signing on fees aint capped and that is a way to lure a player with big bucks upfront. Plus if some one offered me 20k a week to play for either man utd or portsmouth i would pick man u. I think people mostly play for the big four because they are the big four. Owen left a 120k a week contract to join for 50k at man u
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That´s true, but the cap would prevent the formation of squads like Real Madrid and Barcelona´s ones, for example. Because the likes of Kaká, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, would never accept to have a salary inferior to one another, in the same club - even if it´s Madrid or Barça. See Eto'o for an instance ...

Anyways, I also believe that players do consider if they are going to be first teams regulars or not. Because one thing is to get 20K in Man Utd, and never play, and other thing is to ger 20K in Portsmouth, and play every single game - this is specially true regarding players that want to be called for their national squads.
 
Druggan said:
If I were in your boots I'd aim higher with £50 million to be honest, I think Arsenal are a great team to watch and I think most players would jump at the chance to play next to Fabregas. You have some qaulity youngsters, fully expecting Wilshere to rule the right or left wing for you this year.

Van Persie is a donkey compared to Arshavin, I think you need to get a 30+ goalscorer that you have missed since Henry. Huntelaar isn't bad but I would say someone more like Henry you don't really need the aerial play up front with the way Arsenal play.

You are in dyer need of centrebacks to replace both Gallas and now Toure, Toure was right to be sold was an African Clique forming there.
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huntelaar is brillant end of
as 4 van persie being a donkey he is class, just look at some of his goals and skills.

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cjackson11 said:
whats the point in teams even getten takenover if they arnt aloud to use the money provided.

know1 here cant tell me if their your club was being rumourd to be takenover with some rich arab or russian you wouldnt be excited.
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yep exactly. then again i am a chelsea fan :) but saying tht though i luv man city with all this money and signing world class players. funny but brillant.
like they have cheated in fm! data ed
 
the premier league ruined football in 1992 since only rich clubs with big fan bases can succeed on a big scale.
You will never see the day when a team like notts forest will win two european cups (champions league as it is called now) in a row after only gaining promotion to the top league two years previous to there first euro cup win.

There are also countless other teams from this period who succeeded on very limited means e.g. Derby, Aston Villa, Southhampton, watford.

Only when the TV money is distributed evenly throughout the leagues will you see small clubs being able to achieve great things. Until that happens you will see the same teams competing for the league title year in year out.
 
this is rubbish, this has made football exciting, there is now 5 teams who could win the title, and anything could happened, city are being quoted inflated prices but paying them so no probaly, nobody loses, selling club gets more money then play is worth(santa cruz), player gets paid more then he is worth(whole city squad) and club gets there man. iff lescott goes to city it could help fund a stadium for everton, or maybe city have helped arsenal with debts, there money is useful to other clubs
 
123parrott123 said:
the premier league ruined football in 1992 since only rich clubs with big fan bases can succeed on a big scale.
You will never see the day when a team like notts forest will win two european cups (champions league as it is called now) in a row after only gaining promotion to the top league two years previous to there first euro cup win.

There are also countless other teams from this period who succeeded on very limited means e.g. Derby, Aston Villa, Southhampton, watford.

Only when the TV money is distributed evenly throughout the leagues will you see small clubs being able to achieve great things. Until that happens you will see the same teams competing for the league title year in year out.
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Equal distribution of TV money is certainly one of the best things that can be done for competitiveness.
 
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