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cisses_gona_get_ya wrote:He also attacks players and agents for demanding "insane" wages, saying: "Equally unacceptable are the sort of wage negotiations that can produce the spectacle of semi-educated, sometimes foul-mouthed, players on £100,000 a week holding clubs to ransom until they get, say, £120,000. More often than not, these players are guided in these endeavours by unsavoury agents."

Is it my imagination or is that an attack on Wayne Rooney? And Rio Ferdninand?
Sorry MODS for putting it in LFC discussion but it would have gone unoticed in football worldwide.

cisses_gona_get_ya wrote:I meant the fouled mouth one on a 100 grand a week, I dont know many other foul mouthed players on a 100 grand a week, Blatter wont have been pleased with Rooney telling that ref to f@ck off I think its a dig at him, and Rio holding out for 120 grand a week.

Yeah sorry I see your point.

Of course it was a dig at him 

Espionage wrote:A logical way of solving this issue could be bringing in the system that the NBA uses.
Its  quite good; there is a cap and if you want to spend over, you can.
For every dollar that you go over you have to donate that amount into a fund that gets equally distributed to all the other clubs in the league.
In this way some clubs may still try and go over the salery cap but have to pay alot and end up helping their opposition!
What do you think?

woof woof ! wrote:

Ace Ventura wrote:While i agree that something does need to be done about people like Abramovich with no real interest in English football and especially in CFC, what can be done realistically ?

Yeah, it's difficult to see what Fifa can do in terms of restricting the amount a club pays for a player or what wages a player may recieve from a club without contravening some law regarding trade and an individuals human rights . However Fifa could look at the issue of squad sizes i:e how many players a club is allowed to register with Fifa to make them eligible to play in the major competitons , this would stop some clubs from hoarding players .For example ,if a team can only register say 20- 22 players for the senior competitions this would mean that the likes of Madrid or Chelsea  cannot just whip out their cheque book and go out and bully another club into selling their best player/s without first releasing some of the top talent they already have on their books . A system like this could possibly make the likes of Real Madrid think twice before buying someone like Michael Owen and sticking him on the bench for most of the time . Perhaps not a perfect solution but worth consideration ? At least top talent may be spread more evenly and great players actually get to play instead of just bench warming .

bigmick wrote:It's a very intersting post and point Lynds and it's quite heartening to see that FIFA are at least aware that there is a problem. Of course whether they will do anything about it is the real question, with the answer being of course not until they are forced into it.

A couple of really well respected and knowledgeable posters on here last week said that Chelsea's current domination is nothing new, merely comparable to the Liverpool and Manure domination of the seventies and eightees. It is the job of everybody else to catch up etc etc. I absolutely disagree with that stance and believe it to be an extreme case of the head being buried in the sand. We are, it must be remembered, in the very early stages of a team having a ridiculous advantage over absolutely everybody else in Europe. It's not like when we were a good side and used to bid for players, at least we had rivals in the transfer market. The same could be said to a slightly lesser extent about Manure. Currently however, if Chelsea want a player then everybody else pulls out of the race giving them a clear run to buy whoever they please. There is no limit on squad numbers so they can have a squad of 50 Internationals if they like. Injury worries become a thing of the past. How about offering Spurs 15 million for Michael Dawson, offering Dawson a ten year deal and leasing him back to White Hart Lane on the understanding that at a moments notice he will come back to the Bridge in a crisis. Crazy? It'll never happen? Don't bet on it.

Before Chelsea Forever comes on here spouting his nonsense, I reiterate what I have said before. I have nothing against Chelsea and Abrhamovic personally, I am by no means a blue-hater. FWIW I think life is too short for hate and whatever, I reserve all my dislike for Manure but I digress. The simple fact of the matter is that something should have been done 30 years ago to level the professional playing field somewhat, yes that means when we were the best. Chelsea haven't broken the rules, they have merely exposed them for the nonsense that they are.

I said earlier that we are in the early stages of a financial monopoly. Consider if nothing changes what it will be like in five years time. Chelsea will be touring the youth acadamies handing out 1/2 million pounds, five year contracts like confetti. "If you get to be any good son, there's plenty more where that came from". Every young player as well as established players will be jettisoned in the pursuit of dominance.

It's time to act now, but it won't happen. Five Premiership titles in a row is what it'll take along with a couple of CL titles. Oh and when 3/4 of the teams in the top division can only fill half the ground, SKY drop their annual cash bonanza because viewing figures drop through the floor and the gap widens even further, that might just make them sit up aswell.

Great post Bigmick,

Although its worried me even more now.