DISCUSS: Should football adopt a salary cap similar to the one used in the USA?

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  1. Tyk

    Tyke Far From Home Active Member

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    I have thought about this for a while now. British top tier football is becoming stale. Only the top 4 clubs can afford to pay the top player's wages. I cannot see this domination being broken anytime soon as the rich are simply getting richer each day. I know that the Football League has adopted a sort of salary cap where a club can only have a wage bill that is a certain percentage of their income but this is more to do with administration rather than equality. One of the biggest attractions with lower league football is the unpredictability of who will do well each year. Would a salary cap bring this to the Premier League?

    For those of you unsure of the ins and outs of the salary cap in the USA you can see:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary_cap
     
    Tyke Far From Home, Jun 20, 2008
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  2. Gue

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    Is David Beckham including in this wage cap?

    I doubt he's on pennies.
     
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    Stahlrost Well-Known Member

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    If everybody in the UK cancelled their SKY subscription

    I wonder what would happen?
     
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    Knowlesy Well-Known Member

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    they made the "Beckham Rule" just to get him to play over there

    I believe it allows each team to pay one player more than the salary cap
     
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    There are more loopholes and work-arounds to the salary cap rule

    it's unreal. This is definitely the case in NBA at least. There are a hundred and one reasons why a player can be paid more than the salary cap suggests.
     
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    We would get bored of 99% of the dire programming on the five channels we get.
     
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