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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Salary caps of any kind will probably never happen. They happened in North American sports because of owner initiated labour stoppages. At this stage there doesn't appear to be an appetite from club owners to do that. And we know the players will never push for capping their own salaries, they'll need to be forced into it. If there's any room for maneuvering it might be on instituting transfer caps. When money is the only consideration the big clubs will never care, but if they were forced to give up top talent as well then that would change things. When Man City got Grealish is was £100 million, but what if it was £50 million + Foden? Probably doesn't happen.
Now a luxury tax, that I could maybe see. But even that won't make much of a difference to a Man City or Newcastle when there isn't a true limit to how much they can afford. Maybe everyone buying EVs is the solution, crash that price of oil lol.
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I dont know man, while I agree that an NHL-style Salary Cap will almost never happen, the Spanish league is trying hard to institute financial responsibility.
Its still relative to the team's revenue which, again, in the realm of Petro-State clubs is somewhat irrelevant, but at least its something.
But the doping from teams like City and PSG...you've got to put some kind of brakes on that. City especially is so blatant and obvious, they've been rubbing people's faces in it for over a decade now and
they've been caught over 100 times and never a real, serious, sincere penalty. Not once.
At least something to try and make them be slick about it, but every time they just whip out some more cash and everyone forgets all about it.
I've said it before, a Major club is going to go insolvent and they're going to have to figure something out.