Quote Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow View Post
I'm not bothered.

City have been spending stupid money for over half a decade now

2008 - £127 million
2009 - £125 miliion
2010 - £154 million
2011 - £76 million
2012 - £54 million
2013 - £103 million
2014 - £51 million

About time United caught up

2008 - £35 million
2009 - £21 million
2010 - £27 million
2011 - £52 million
2012 - £63 million
2013 - £67 million
2014 - £150 million

Since 2003 Chelsea have spent almost £1billion.

From 2003 to last season
Chelsea - £903 million
Man City - £760 million
Liverpool - £608 million
Man Utd - £593 million
This quite decently sums up all that is wrong with football.

If I ruled the world clubs wouldn't be able to do this.
A few years back the Football Association I was working for/with put forward the following proposal to FIFA.

1. Clubs can only spend up to the equivalent of 1 million pounds per week on players wages. (ave of 40000 per player in a 25 man squad). This would stop the quite sickening amounts some players get paid. i.e. more in a week than most people make in 5 years.

2. Players clubs develop through their own youth systems are exempt from the cap, as long as they stay at the club. i.e a club that has 7 of thier own players in the senior team would still have 1 million to pay the rest of the team. This would ensure players are developed by their clubs, and give a decent career path to young talent.

3. Player brought in from the clubs own nation from lower leagues would be partially inside the salary cap, again giving local players a decent career path into top level football.

Our proposal was more in depth than this (it was 30+ pages long with detailed descriptions of how it would work)

To me a system like this would cure many of the fundamental issues with football. It would control the ego-driven amounts that some players demand. It would encourage the Man City's Chelsea's Real Madrids etc to stop luring any half decent player with a silly number and actually develop their own talent. And it would provide a pathway for local players, who are often better than the over priced garbage the clubs are bringing in.