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  • IronHerbIronHerb
    edited April 2021
    OldCastleSwift said:

    But have you seen the numbers involved in the NFL? It's one thing to have a cap, but if that cap is, say, £500k a week, it still prices out any other team in any other league, particularly as there'll be less money in the other domestic set ups.

    There is no individual cap. From what I just read the lowest salary was £270k pa with the highest paid at £25m pa.
    The cap is £107m and not £150m as I posted earlier. This is spread across a 53 man squad.

    The top six are the top payers anyway so if it's purely down to wages it makes little difference as they already have the cash to outplay the rest.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Brentford have Tweeted about needing a trophy cabinet at short notice as the their Carabao Cup semi-final opponents and the other two semi-finalists are all part of the Dirty Dozen.

    I like that clubs are openly trolling this.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    OldCastleSwift said:

    Brentford have Tweeted about needing a trophy cabinet at short notice as the their Carabao Cup semi-final opponents and the other two semi-finalists are all part of the Dirty Dozen.

    I like that clubs are openly trolling this.

    They can buy the one Spurs have. They won't be needing it.
  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    IronHerb said:

    OldCastleSwift said:

    Brentford have Tweeted about needing a trophy cabinet at short notice as the their Carabao Cup semi-final opponents and the other two semi-finalists are all part of the Dirty Dozen.

    I like that clubs are openly trolling this.

    They can buy the one Spurs have. They won't be needing it.
    And it's unused =)
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Bonus.
  • MoojorMoojor
    Right now lawyers for all of the others teams are going through the PL rule book with the finest of fine toothcombs.
    They will be looking at every single way they can get the 6 kicked out or points deducted, anything at all.
  • whupathmanwhupathman
    20 point deduction, Blades could be safe in theory and gooners could go down
  • ScotHammerScotHammer
    BubblesNeverDies said:

    Love him or hate him, but this is excellent.

    James Corden explaining to US audience with Oscars analogy - priceless!

  • yoyoyoyo
    Good rant. Just kick all 6 out asap. Leave them In their own selfish world and we'll all carry on in ours.
  • alderzalderz
    ScotHammer said:

    BubblesNeverDies said:

    Love him or hate him, but this is excellent.

    James Corden explaining to US audience with Oscars analogy - priceless!

    The Oscars analogy was actually really good for explaining it. I didn’t know how he’d be able to explain it in sporting terms when they only have closed competition at the top level
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited April 2021
    yoyo said:

    Good rant. Just kick all 6 out asap. Leave them In their own selfish world and we'll all carry on in ours.

    Tbh, I'm not sure they'll care if they are kicked out; they must know it's a very real possibility and will have factored that into their decision (they'd probably just establish a normal league whereby they all play each other home and away at weekends, rather than it being an alternative to the Champions League). As I mentioned in an earlier post, in 10 years time these clubs will simply be franchises and will be based in the US, the Far East, the Middle East, wherever.
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    Has there been any news from the FA or the Prem, yet?
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Prem are meeting at the moment.
  • Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_MoyesJorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes
    I'm desperate for them to come out swinging. Another statement expressing disappointment etc isn't going to cut it.

    Give them until Friday to back down or chuck them out of the Premier League and Champions League.
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    I'd say dock them points regardless and if they don't back down within a certain timeframe kick them out altogether.
  • Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_MoyesJorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes
    Oh yeah, I'd 100% deduct points and fine in any case, just for the audacity and the arrogance.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    There simply has to be a proper sanction which almost certainly should mean/include heavy points deductions

    Anything else will basically be saying that (certain) clubs are bigger than the sport itself
  • whupathmanwhupathman
    enough points to relegate arsenal, PL meeting has finished
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    There’s now a statement from West Ham on the OS
  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    That's relegation sorted, the bottom three of you six are relegated to league two, the others to league one
  • whupathmanwhupathman
    PL captains meeting
  • yoyoyoyo
    Pep has had a pop as well. " it's not sport when success is guaranteed "
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    No just imagining they actually are kicked out - should the Prem use that opportunity to reduce the size of the leage? Say 18 or possibly even 16 teams.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    baracks_a_hammer said:

    There’s now a statement from West Ham on the OS

    https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/april/20-april/west-ham-united-strongly-oppose-super-league-proposals
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    edited April 2021
    Be interesting to see what the players stance is for those involved in new format..

    Right now I sense most if not all are against

    But wonder if that changes once the finances start rolling in and the mega bucks contracts are on offer 🤔
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    edited April 2021
    We're ok. Rashford is onboard.

  • yoyoyoyo
    Diamantis , good point.There lies the problem. Player z... Do you want to be an International on 150k a week and perhaps qualify for Euro's or world cup, May be selected, May have a good tournament... or do you want to earn 500k a week?
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    https://www.premierleague.com/news/2112093
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    yoyo said:

    Diamantis , good point.There lies the problem. Player z... Do you want to be an International on 150k a week and perhaps qualify for Euro's or world cup, May be selected, May have a good tournament... or do you want to earn 500k a week?

    But they are on megabucks already. I can see them wanting more for sure but that decision will define them, if it ever comes to that.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Diamantis the mega bucks may roll into the owners coffers but there’s no guarantee that much of it will go in increasing players wages as that would be self defeating. Three times the six owners have blamed the pandemic on having to do this because they’ve lost money. What about the poor clubs going out of business.
    I’ve said before most players are now money motivated but I bet few of them are as happy as some believe in just taking the money and playing in meaningless non competitive games.
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