MLS, NHL, NFL, and NBA is the way to go.

[pedro111]

EPL.

 

[Guest jonlane86]

Blackout rule - If the match has not sold out at the stadium then it cannot be shown on local television.  This encourages people to show up to the match rather than sitting in their armchair.

 

this is very badly thought out. the whole point when it comes to 'armchair fans' is that they're exactly the sort of people who don't care if they see the match or not. they'll watch in their living room, but they're not going to bother going to the match if the game is on or not. and nowadays, with internet streaming, foreign channels and the like, it'd be impossible to prevent people watching regardless what you did with local tv. also, it's not a problem in reality. we sold more tickets for a game that took place on an early sunday afternoon for a match on bbc1 than any other this season.

 

A player has to play for their most local Football League club to where they were born.  If the club does not want to sign them they would need to sign a contract 'passing them up' and it would go to the next most local club.  The exclusivity would last until the age of 21, at which point other clubs could negotiate a fee to buy out the remaining 2 years of a contract.  However, a club could decide to sell the rights to the player at any point.  This encourages clubs to nurture local talent and stops Kakuta style dealings.  It also could help smaller FLC clubs who have excellent young talent locally and brings more 'equality' in.

 

this wouldn't work at all. i mean, by the age of 21, most people are either graduating from university or have been in work for some time. they have the choice of which city they'd like to live in and so on, whilst in your example, if you're a footballer who happens to be born in carlisle, you're stuck there, restricting your earnings and potential future salary. and how does it get decided? it's easy if you're born and live in newcastle, but what about places like gateshead? if they made the league they'd suddenly have a huge influx of players that they simply couldn't use. and in london, are you getting the tape measure out to see how close your home is to the nearest ground? how does this work in practice?

 

Blackout Rule - Explain the low attendance at the DW stadium on Sunday night when they were on Sky.  I know a few of my mates who have chosen not to go on the basis that the match was on TV anyway so might as well watch it in the house.

 

Young Player Rule - As explained clubs would be able to sell the rights to a player.  If they can't sustain the player's ability/ambition they could sell them to a bigger club and cash in, therefore helping them gain from the player's potential success.  In doing that they earn more and have a chance to invest more over time to become more successful.  The whole idea of this rule is to give an incentive to Clubs to invest in producing local talent rather than poaching young talent from abroad.  Its less about restricting the player's options and more about improving the structure of the grass roots level.

 

It would give more power to the clubs but tbh that is something that is long overdue.  That is where the NFL system of the draft works so well.  The player has to go to the Franchise that selects them, and although the player can hold out for a better contract because they are in a position to do so, the player will sign because the NFL is the only league worth mentioning that plays American Football.  It would be impossible to implement a UEFA draft so why not instead restrict the local talent to their local side?  As I said before it can only improve the investment at the grass roots level because if you find a star, they can either save you millions or earn you millions depending on how you want to play it.  My proposed system would also guarantee not losing an excellent player on a Bosman unless they sign a contract extension on their 21st Birthday.

[Adam]

This is all well and good, but FIFA and UEFA are still living in the dark ages, when it comes to rules and changing stuff. So it will never happen, if they wont put a camera in the posts to see if the ball crossed the line, what hope is their of limiting the money in the game ?

[Exiled in Texas]

Regarding TV Blackouts - funny how some NFL teams always manage last minute sell outs when "Someone" buys up the last remaining tickets so that the game get on TV and they get the TV Revenue.  We all know that the Club or Owner buys up $10,000 worth of tickets so that they get $100,000 worth of TV revenue.

[Stifler]

Regarding TV Blackouts - funny how some NFL teams always manage last minute sell outs when "Someone" buys up the last remaining tickets so that the game get on TV and they get the TV Revenue.  We all know that the Club or Owner buys up $10,000 worth of tickets so that they get $100,000 worth of TV revenue.

 

I wouldn't mind our club giving away free tickets, having a sell out crowd and another £90k or so profit on top of what they would already make. 

[OzzieMandias]

"TV Blackouts" could have the unfortunate effect of making it work against you if you have a big stadium.

[Guest jonlane86]

"TV Blackouts" could have the unfortunate effect of making it work against you if you have a big stadium.

 

Then turn up to the game then........

[Raconteur]

As if the EU would stand for any of these proposals. And how long would it take for a new "Bosman" to challenge the illegal nature of many of them?

 

Football is one of the most cutthroat free-market businesses there is, with owners (and players) being free to make like bandits or go bankrupt trying.

 

Fuck Pompey, let them go to the wall. They've got no one to blame but themselves, and while my heart goes out to the two or three fans they have, they're in the same boat as customers of failed businesses...

[NG32]

As if the EU would stand for any of these proposals. And how long would it take for a new "Bosman" to challenge the illegal nature of many of them?

 

Football is one of the most cutthroat free-market businesses there is, with owners (and players) being free to make like bandits or go bankrupt trying.

 

f*** Pompey, let them go to the wall. They've got no one to blame but themselves, and while my heart goes out to the two or three fans they have, they're in the same boat as customers of failed businesses...

 

Pretty much the bottom line.

[afar]

Starting today is the NFL scouting combine, it's amazing how much effort goes into the whole scouting process and puts the effort our teams put in , in our football, into shade, this is taken from the Miami Herald:

 

"INDIANAPOLIS -- When the line began to form early Wednesday morning at Clarian Hospital in downtown Indianapolis, Cal offensive tackle Mike Tepper made sure he was at the front of it. The earlier the arrival, he figured, the shorter the wait.

At 7:30 a.m., he would be the first to step into a small room, where a doctor sat behind a table with Tepper's MRI results on the right and his x-rays on the left.

``Have you ever been injured?'' the doctor asked.

It was the first question for the first draft hopeful on the first day of the NFL Scouting Combine. This week, a total of 329 former college football players will endure countless questions and tests.

They will be poked and prodded. They will be quizzed on their intelligence and questioned about their pasts. For five hours Wednesday, Tepper was herded to six stations. Those behind him would likely take even longer to finish.

THOROUGH INVESTIGATION

``Blood, urine, MRI, x-rays,'' Tepper said. ``They take it all. Oxygen levels, your blood count. Everything. They'll sit you down with the doctor, and anything you say that you've injured, you're getting it checked out. Simple as that.''

Sounds, um, real simple. The medical evaluations, which are filed into a mainframe and sent to all 32 NFL teams, are only the first part of the process.

Perhaps even more diligent than most teams, the Dolphins already have their staff ready to go in Indianapolis as they get ready for an enormously important draft. As important as this year's draft might be, these analytical studies aren't all that new.

After Stu Weinstein, the Dolphins' director of security, found out in 1995 that he could interview each prospect as part of his thorough background checks, he has attended every year since. As a result, whenever Miami drafts a player in April, the team will know exactly what it is getting.

The point: This isn't just about athleticism. It's about everything.

Throughout the week, those 329 prospects will go through a series of workouts -- from running to weightlifting to vertical jumps -- that will test their speed, flexibility and overall agility. But teams treat each draft pick as a major investment."

[Thespence]

Afar - Of course they are going to get checked over as the top draft are all getting multi million $$$ contracts & the bottom end of the draft players are all taking home 6 figure salaries. Elsewhere a lad from Crammy boys club will be getting a few hundred per week when he joins the Toon.

 

There is also less development needed with a player who joins the NFL/NBA for the 1st time compared to a boy who joins a football club.

[afar]

Afar - Of course they are going to get checked over as the top draft are all getting multi million $$$ contracts & the bottom end of the draft players are all taking home 6 figure salaries. Elsewhere a lad from Crammy boys club will be getting a few hundred per week when he joins the Toon.

 

There is also less development needed with a player who joins the NFL/NBA for the 1st time compared to a boy who joins a football club.

 

The point I was making, was not comparing recruitment of youngsters between the two games, but more the general effort and importance that put into scouting before committing to bringing a player to your club.

Scouting seems an after thought for a lot of clubs in our game, detailed scouting to them is a manager going to watch a player play more than once, that's a world apart from the effort and resources put in to recruiting someone for the NFL, they know virtually everything about a player, from his background, character, intelligence to length of his arms, speed over 40 yards and how much he can bench press, along with of course his ability to play.

There are some players in our past and I'm thinking of the Luque's, Xisco's, Maric's and Boumsong's of this worlds, who with a little more detailed scouting may have helped prevent us from wasting millions.

 

What I would like to see us do, is to understand that recruitment is not limited to the transfer windows, we should be identifying and scouting our recruits for this summer, right now, I'm sure we've got a few scouts out there looking, but it always seems to be a half hearted attempt. A couple of scouts just doesn't cut it, we need to build up our scouting network.

[mrmojorisin75]

Sorry, but the "American model" is not the way to go.

The only thing--  the only thing-- that I would take from US sports is the way that television money is distributed between the clubs in the NFL. That's it. If you take the Champions League money and distribute it equally between the clubs in the participating leagues, you've solved a big chunk of the problem right off the bat (to use an American phrase).

 

not heard this before - by far and away the simplest and most workable solution to an obvious problem

 

can't be challenged either like an enforced salary cap/spend limit perhaps could...uefa spread the money out between everyone, usual suspects can have fuck all to say about it

 

still, never happen, pity

[Guest jonlane86]

Was talking to my mate about Salary Caps last night and he was of the opinion that it could be done on a 'points system'.  i.e. The Spanish and English leagues having a higher cap than say the Belgian league.  Would keep those leagues competitive and mean there would be a possibility of different teams being able to win the league.  We were also saying maybe the best thing is that all the rich lot go and do one to a European Super League and let the rest fight it out.