do you think there should be a sallary cap in the football league?

[alexxxxx]

with the news of watford running into trouble, another football league club is under threat. Do you think that a sallary cap should be introduced in the championship and lower in order to force clubs to keep their fianances in check so fans aren't in risk of being left clubless? or would this cause all the best football league players to go abroad? would it make competition more fair, so big clubs who come down can't buy their way back up?

discusss!

[Ardemax]

in my opinion, footballers wages are ridiculously high

on average £3 a second is just jaw-dropping

so yeah, probably that and *is about to get flamed* they should use a bit of the money for real jobs... ie army lol

[Jibbish]

in my opinion, footballers wages are ridiculously high

on average £3 a second is just jaw-dropping

so yeah, probably that and *is about to get flamed* they should use a bit of the money for real jobs... ie army lol
yes how footballers get paid more than the army is beyond me

[ifuseekamy]

yes how footballers get paid more than the army is beyond me
Because football is private sector and footballers are in high demand in small numbers. If the government paid every troop £100,000 a week they would have no money left for other resources and go bankrupt. Besides footballers are taxed 50%, they are invaluable to the economy and I would much rather them paying that much tax in Britain than Spain or wherever.

[Bun]

the amount of money generated by football is enormous. i'd rather the money gathered from sky, tickets, merchandise etc goes to the players than anybody else. however, i am bias as i'm a football fan so i'd rather see money in football than any other sport, as it gains more popularity.

[Browney]

Only if FIFA introduced it. If it was just us everyone would hop off overseas, and we'd lose our reputation as a great league and footballing country. Overseas companies wont pay for merchandise, people wont pay for TV subscriptions... It's better for football that it's no cap, or a complete cap, worldwide.

[Geraint]

no, because then all the premier league teams would buy them for cheaper wages than what they could have without a salary cap.

[alexxxxx]

Only if FIFA introduced it. If it was just us everyone would hop off overseas, and we'd lose our reputation as a great league and footballing country. Overseas companies wont pay for merchandise, people wont pay for TV subscriptions... It's better for football that it's no cap, or a complete cap, worldwide.
just the football league, not the premier league.

[Smits]

The money should go to the players, its the fans and advertising that bring in the money.

[dirrty]

i think they're paid fine in relation to the football industry's revenue.

[CHA!NGANG]

Well if you think about it, top footballers are paid around £100,000 a week which is £5.2 Million a year. They work every day almost, on weekends, risk career ending injuries, get there lifes on TV and the Media, and have a lot of responsibility. Compare that to Miley Cyrus per say who earns $25 Million a year, about 3x that of a footballer and works equally as hard. So I think they do deserve it in some ways, however, there are people that should earn more than footballers but don't such as people in the Army.

[alexxxxx]

championship and league 1 footballers are on nowhere near £100k/week.

[Black_Apalachi]

Not really. People only complain because they're jealous. If I had randomly been born with a natural talent that suckers are willing to pay an arm and a leg for, I wouldn't be complaining.

I agree that it's bad the army get paid less than footballers, but it's not like the FA or the clubs employ the armed forces, so it hardly makes a difference what footballers get.

[CHA!NGANG]

Ooops didn't see the Premier League not bit. Anyway, you can't do it with 1 league and not others. Won't work. All or nothing as said above as even though it's only the smaller clubs it will still limit who they can get in.

[brandon]

Well if it was going to happen in the Football League and not the Premier League than it would just make the gulf between the two even wider.

[StefanWolves]

Pointless proposal. Wouldn't work, it'd backfire hugely. Plus clubs would just find ways around it, i.e. get a 'Sponsor' for their player for more ££ a week.

[adaym]

Not one of our players is on over £5k a week.