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Well, that luxury tax has morphed into a de facto salary cap over time, but under conditions that don’t bear getting into here.
If we're talking specifically baseball, a big reason it has morphed into a "de facto cap" is because there is also draft pick penalties tied to being over and no team wants to do that. That would be an issue with UEFA.
Just need to institute a hard cap. It will benefit the owners. I’m sure Barca would love to have not given Messi 1m a weeknight hindsight … So I dont get why the owners wouldn’t be for it. The players will be mad as hell, but what can they do? Is there a players union in UEFA?
From the limited footage I have seen of him he pings a good ball but looks weak in the tackle and in the air.
In theory what the players can do is play elsewhere. But that’s only in theory, the exit options aren’t really there.
Exactly, the premier league which we formed…In hindsight we should have put restrictions in place but the founding fathers of it all (Spurs and Co) didn’t….We reap what we sow as they say…
No they didn't - which was foolish... They didn't think ahead at the possibilities they were opening up for such a thing to happen...
Does this statement imply that you had stuffing left in you after Mou? Wow, you had one hell of a stuffing reserve.
My statement wasn't setup in such a way for Lukaku to benefit from Werner's runs but the other way around like Martinez, a guy many are going bonkers over, has benefited at Inter. Werner is used to playing with a big guy and not as a lone striker where he is underwhelming. But taking it as you've written you underestimate Lukaku's athleticism, surprisingly.
Pep doesn't have any record of playing with a #9 like Harry so do we doubt his ability to do so before even giving him a chance? In fact, Pep 'failed' with Ibra...are you gonna go on record and doubt Pep's integration of Harry into City's team?
A skill he has developed in his time in Italy. Balls don't seem to bounce off him any longer. And Smalling is more physical (read grabby and cheaty) than most any CB left in the PL and he was very familiar with Lukaku's game.
Well, for example I know that if I drink 50 units of alcohol every week then I will risk being massively damaged by 2032. It's not some magic about 'seeing into the future', it's about assessing the future risks that could reasonably result from your actions, and given that there were financial people involved in football back in the early 90s just as there are now, I'm surprised they didn't see this possibility. I expect they were just all too busy being excited about the present and short-to-medium term to think about the potential long-term implications of an Abramovich type situation arising.
Are you just trying to post the link in the body of the post? If so it won't work. You have to click on the photo icon (to the left of the smilie face when you're making a post) and post the link in there.
There were ambitious chairmen with money to spend back then as well. When the PL started, it was Jack Walker and Blackburn Rovers and a few years on from that it was Newcastle with Sir John Hall, Freddy Shepherd and a free spending Kevin Keegan.
