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And loans to be a maximum of to the next transfer window. Season long loans aren't good for the game.

You know they could have put deals forward, had them rejected then accepted at a lower rate - if the deals were coming? 😁

Still waiting for APT to be resolved

Nearly as many as waving the Union Jack in people's faces, you're right just pointing out some hypocrisy, as our empire's history is far from perfect either

Still waiting on those commercial deals to come rolling in ETB

Go on Custer get those horses ready for the charge

It’s hardly historically obscure - about a third of the world’s population will get pretty upset if you wave one in their face

I'd go super simple: - Whatever the highest-spending club spent in a calendar year, is the cap for all clubs the following year. *This allows for teams to at least aspire to catch up. - if a club's debt exceeds X amount, they then come under 'sustainability' rules, ie something more like what the current rules are. *This prevents clubs from using endless borrowing to try and catch up.

Where can I buy the blue hat?

Kin’ell tbf it’s such a historically obscure flag to the west that any variation of it - especially one with the toon badge - is very likely to go unchecked isn’t it?

Again, a salary cap would not necessarily depress the wages of players as long as it’s implemented properly. You can build it so that the total spending power of the 20 PL clubs combined is more or less the same as it is now. Also, there is already a league that can blow every PL team out of the water in terms of wages in Saudi Arabia, but that hasn’t led to some kind of mass exodus. I think we’re living in an era that has proven that the whole “any kind of spending limitations will result in top talent deserting the PL” theory is false.

The US sports have an advantage - they aren’t big enough outside of the US to provide any effective competition. So if NBA players don’t like the deal they’re getting, what’s their options - do they go to play in Lithuania? No-one will come close to the salaries that the NBA, NFL, MLB etc will pay The PL could insert these rules and watch as all the players head to one of the many other leagues which don’t.

Yeah I know what your saying and I agree. As I said coming up with measures to increase fairness is easy, the issue is the league has absolutely no will to do so.

The whatabouttery doesn’t cut the mustard here - the flag is banned by FIFA for starters; it absolutely is the equivalent of the swastika or the flag of the confederacy for much of Asia. There’s plenty of crimes in the annals of the British empire, no doubt about it. Kitchener was in charge of the SA campaign, and usually gets much of the blame for the concentration camps (though the Second Boer War was not the origin of concentration camps). You’ll have to show me the history books where beheading competitions by British officers took place, or the organised mass rapes. I’m yet to see any serious objections to the UK being represented by the Union flag by those outside of the UK, including those nations which were subject to British rule in the days of empire. Not at all looking to be an apologist for the British Empire - but all things are relative. The club’s media team (or adidas’s, whoever the fuck put that video together) wants shot with shit. Personally, I’d fire them - but then I think having kit launch videos is the most banal and pointless thing imaginable.

Yep. For anyone who follows the NBA, the owners have effectively snuck a hard cap into effect in all but name with the second apron nonsense. The most hilarious/depressing part is they even hoodwinked the players association to ratify it in the last deal. If the Premier League owners put their mind to it, there would be nothing stopping them achieving the same outcome over time.

Oh dear. The only way they can get any positive feedback from giving him ajother contract is to announce it at the bottom of the final paragraph where they announce a Trafford, Elanga and Balerdi triple signing.

Or else.

I’m talking about what is fair rather than what is realistic. But from a purely technical standpoint, there are plenty of ways to implement a salary cap where the players would not be making any less money in the aggregate.

Not so simply sadly, the PFA actually have an agreement with the premier league and the FA preventing this. Believe me, the owners of the clubs would love nothing more than a cap on how much they have to pay. Solutions are very easy but ultimately want happen because the members lack the will to implement any.

It would be no different from PSR. Just run revenue numbers for the clubs the same way, but instead of setting a separate ceiling for each club, you add everything up and divide it by twenty. Presto, there's your salary cap.

I suspect the PFA would have the PL in court in a heartbeat if they tried introducing a salary cap

It's been a long and winding road, but happy to see that you Brits are finally coming around to salary caps.

Happy to wait, but I’ve seen numbers bandied about on here like they’re fact

#wait

The thoughts about the owners playing games with FFP need to stop tbh - it’s not going to happen. If they’re serious about their stated ambitions, it’ll be done by the book - the stadium plans will tell us just how serious they are. The talk of a multi-billion pound stadium just looks like pie in the sky at the moment.