The spending rules are to protect the fans and the game... I get that these new money premier league clubs are all frustrated but the reality is for 20 years we had mid to small community clubs going out of business, turning into phoenix clubs or staggering along completely ruined after bad owners came in and spent well beyond the club's means in search of glory, pissed off and left the clubs in debt.
I think the real problem is the way that the explosion of foreign interest in the prem has exasperated the gap in revenue as those fans are all glory hunters who support only big six clubs. You go on twitter these days and there are a million dudes from random places supporting the likes of chelsea, arsenal, liverpool spewing poison every time there is a refereeing decision going against them, they lose a bet, or anything they don't like etc. These clubs make as much on a pre season tour and overseas shirt sales as a club like Cardiff makes in gates.
I actually like that football is a meritocracy and you can spend what you earn, but I think they should ring fence a definition of revenue to domestic ticket, sponsorship and merchandise and remove overseas revenues, preseason tours, hotel sales, etc.
Good luck ever making that happen though, the ownership group is like a bond villains crew these days, some of the most unethical win at all costs people in the world there.
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