SteveAWOL
Chris Jones
Re: O/T Financial Fair Play
Agreed. In combination with the FFP which prevents sugar daddies from financially doping a club, some form of "luxury tax" to level the playing the field between ManU and the rest of the league should be brought in so that they can't keep cherry picking the best players from the rest of the Premiership as they have for most of the past 20 years.
The method used by the NBA seems like a pretty good one, whereby there is a squad salary cap and for every dollar over that limit a team spends they have to pay a $1 tax which is then redistributed to the clubs which don't overspend. If this was implemented in the Premier League with a cap of say £80million then the Luxury Tax Bills for 2011/12 would have been:
Chelsea = £110m
Emirates Marketing Project = £94m
Manchester United = £73m
Liverpool = £55m
ARSEnal = £44m
Tottenham = £11m
Aston Villa = £3m
Such a system would have to be implemented across Europe by UEFA in order to work but maybe if they got a cut of the tax revenue for themselves to use for their own projects (similar to the system used in MLB) then Platini and co might consider it...
Barcelona = £142m
Real Madrid = £114m
AC Milan = £91m
Bayern Munich = £51m
Agreed, but at the same time I do hate Emirates Marketing Project, Chelsea, PSG etc for the way that they have been allowed to spend obscene amounts of money that the club itself hasn't earned. So for all the problems with FPP, I think the status quo was far from acceptable too. Which is why, in an ideal world, I'd like to see (in combination with the FPP rules) a form of tax on merchandise, sponsorship, gate receipts etc of the elite teams, which could either go towards smaller clubs or to development projects in the local area. It's disgusting how much money is in the game and how much money players get paid, whilst the local areas for some clubs remain poor and undeveloped and ticket and shirt prices continue to rise. I know football clubs already dedicate more of their revenues to this kind of thing than the average business, but football clubs are / should be more a part of their local community than businesses are.
Agreed. In combination with the FFP which prevents sugar daddies from financially doping a club, some form of "luxury tax" to level the playing the field between ManU and the rest of the league should be brought in so that they can't keep cherry picking the best players from the rest of the Premiership as they have for most of the past 20 years.
The method used by the NBA seems like a pretty good one, whereby there is a squad salary cap and for every dollar over that limit a team spends they have to pay a $1 tax which is then redistributed to the clubs which don't overspend. If this was implemented in the Premier League with a cap of say £80million then the Luxury Tax Bills for 2011/12 would have been:
Chelsea = £110m
Emirates Marketing Project = £94m
Manchester United = £73m
Liverpool = £55m
ARSEnal = £44m
Tottenham = £11m
Aston Villa = £3m
Such a system would have to be implemented across Europe by UEFA in order to work but maybe if they got a cut of the tax revenue for themselves to use for their own projects (similar to the system used in MLB) then Platini and co might consider it...
Barcelona = £142m
Real Madrid = £114m
AC Milan = £91m
Bayern Munich = £51m