Following on from Jays thread - How about this idea...

A maximum of 3 signings per year per club in the summer and 1 in January.

Emergency signings are still ok for genuine needs, no loans.

Teams would have to be built by the manager, more use would be made of youth and second team players.

Big spending sheiks could still come in, but they couldn't sign whole squads.

Nowadays whole teams of players come and go, there is no loyalty, fans can't get to know and love players as they move on so quickly.

But if you only allow change to happen slowly then teams grow more organically and signings are more special.

Managers can put together a team of players that he knows he can work with and they can learn the club style.

Thoughts?

 

Scrap 'emergency loans' all together. Play youth end of. Seen so many 'emergency' loans that are just ways round the system

 

The government make millions in tax through football, wages, transfers, etc etc.
Which is why it won't get better until it gets so bad that we all say no and no fcuker watches/pays anymore.

 

I suppose the unemployed footballers need some protection as well which is why this would never happen. Interesting idea though.

More financial limitations would be the way to go like with American sports. Caps on wages (sensible though, not 200,000 a week) and don't allow any outside investment in the team. If an owner thinks they can increase revenue by building a bigger stadium then fair enough. The 'financial fair play' rules that are coming in are an absolute joke to be honest, it will have very little effect and certainly won't do anything to level the playing field.

The reforms would have to be at least Europe-wide though so no country participating in it would have their league devalued.

 

Emergency loans should be if you have no recognised first team player fit for that position. Not because a player who was average anyway picks up a thigh strain and the gaffer knows another expensive player sat doing nothing up the road and fancies getting him. I always though the 'emergency' was regarding lack of fit players, not just bad form, as seems to be the trend.

 

That would make squad sizes considerably smaller. I mean we've got probably 10 players out of contract in the summer, say we don't want to retain all of them, and say others chose to move on. We're only allowed to sign 3 players to replace them with, the same as any other club. Say all other clubs release 5 players, there's just going to be an abundance of footballers without a club. Then come october time when injuries and suspensions are coming in, teams cant' cope because of their small squad sizes. Not quite sure this one would work, however I see where your coming from and think some sort of limitation needs to be put in place.

Whilst I don't give a flying fúck about Portsmouth and think they deserve everything they get, who are teams like that gonna cope, they've signed about 20 players this season already, sickening really to say they have no money, they have a bigger squad than us.

 

cant see how it would work on human rights cos you are restricting peoples work in a way aint ya?