Needs to be a bit more like F1, where there's just a flat-out cap on what you can spend on transfers and wages, and then additional revenue goes to lower ticket prices, better stadia, not gambling the financial security of the clubs etc.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025
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Needs to be a bit more like F1, where there's just a flat-out cap on what you can spend on transfers and wages, and then additional revenue goes to lower ticket prices, better stadia, not gambling the financial security of the clubs etc.
Can see baldy releasing another takeover story very soon ....to get through this window...
It's a good point. Providing creativity and goal contributions in a Steve Cooper/Nuno team speaks to a more well-rounded player than doing so in a Brendan Rodgers team, with all due respect to James Maddison.
I mean, it kind of is working. Not without its problems and maybe the imperfections of a cost cap are better than these imperfections at the end of the day, but you can't ignore that PSR has changed the way that top clubs do business and entirely averted the Saudi's doing Chelsea and City on steroids at Newcastle.
I certainly thought FFP/PSR was going to make less of an impact than it has made.
Mcatee and Garnacho are hardly experienced heads.
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Your right but we definitely need someone who is capable of creating killer passes and has the skill set needed to be a number 10
Spurs being Spurs will not break the bank and Macatee offers everything i have said
Grealish on the other hand I see as more of a straight loan type with City subsidising his huge salary allowing him the freedom of first team football and possible return to the England side dependent on how well he performs win-win situation
Garnacho - may be young but his ceiling is so high and always looks to make something happen since bursting onto the scene there were always doubts that he would be sold and wouldnt fit in with Almirons style of play and tactics which has proven to be the case since he has taken over but that doesnt mean he couldn't fit in at another club such as Spurs
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City and Chelsea spend whatever they want to.
Forest, Villa and Newcastle get trapped by PSR and have to sell their best players year after year.
and Chelsea and City get nominated for the Club World Cup and will earn a fortune.
City's case is the alamo for whether FFP/PSR have any real teeth or not. Even if they don't convict on all charges, even some of 115 charges sticking should see them absolutely buried in sanctions. If they come out of it with a trivial point deduction and hefty fine it proves big clubs can do whatever they like with impunity and it will be back to making a mockery of the rules again.
The thing is if they were applied to the spirit of the rules and clubs weren't finding 1000 different ways to creatively account around it without being punished it actually would make the PL more competitive over time, top level clubs have more incentive to move squad and youth players on that they don't see making it in order to make room in FFP for signings, which in turn strengthens other teams that otherwise would not have that opportunity to buy said players but would be at increased risk of having their own best players poached because the top clubs can then buy with impunity. I think the days of Chavs/City hoovering up average players like Sidwell, Barkley, Sinclair, Drinkwater, Rodwell etc just to fill HG quotas are gone, parting with even £30m for a player just to make up the numbers does not gel with running a tight ship for PSR.
The low wages model is an absolutely ridiculous way to run one of the supposed big clubs of Europe. Utterly ridiculous.
Pay high transfer fees to other clubs giving them money to sign other players but pay lower than top class wages meaning we can't attract the best players here. When you pay a high transfer fee it means you will usually lose money when trying to sell the player later.
For all the plaudits Levy gets for his supposed business acumen he really is out of his depth in trying to run a football club.
This is almost exactly what I’ve seen Villa and Newcastle fans say to explain why they should actually be allowed to become the next City/Chelsea. Except they normally throw a bit more ‘Cartel 6’ bullshit into the nonsense.
He’s not running a football club, he’s running a real estate business.
The fans are paying the rent on an expensive house that he’s refurbishing to sell later. As Poch said, the players are the furniture but he’s doesn’t see the value in giving the house the most expensive furniture if he’s selling the house later
The low wages model is exactly the way all football clubs should be run.
If you consider low wages (premier league standard) to be 40-60k a week.
Put the onus on the players to perform through Appearence fees & target driven bonuses add bonuses for team victories etc and there earnings will sky rocket.
For instance Dominik Solanke say he earns £75k a week
For every league Appearence he can also earn £15k
Every goal in the league £7.5k
If he scores a hat trick in a game £30k
Player of the month £30k
if he reaches 20 league goals 400k
Premier league golden boot winner £750k per season
If they win the league every first team player gets 1 million pound bonus
Cup victories % of winnings dependent on how far you go in the competition
And you start seeing how they can earn big money but they have to work for it
Giving them a basic base wage should be fundamental to be driven to perform individually and as a team and limits the costs to the club when they are injured or out of form
When a player is consistently smashing these targets in there contracts thats the time to renegotiate the terms with higher base wages and less personal bonuses because they are proven and to the standard you expect.
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Or they’re getting in early to sign players BEFORE they get relegated and a four window ban.
Always look on the bright side of life.
Grealish and Davies in the same dressing room feels like such an odd couple scenario that I kinda wanna see it.
Somehow I bet that they'd be buddies.
Deluded. Low wages, crap players. Bad performance.
Maybe we should have a low ticket prices policy to match.
Both washed.
Lets get Sancho too, maybe Rashford. Put the band back together.
Lol reminds me when people last season were having a meltdown because we didn't sign Sterling or Sancho...thry know they are
