Euro Super League Anyone ?

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Tough calls in what to do.

In Germany, there is the “50 + 1” rule.
Meaning the association or club has to have a controlling stake so commercial interests can’t gain control. At Bayern Munich Audi and Adidas each own 9% but the rest is controlled by the members via the club. There are only two exceptions with Wolfsburg (owned by Volkswagen) and Bayer Leverkusen (owned by the chemical company Bayer).So in general a club in Germany is a true club for the members.

This unique rule in Germany has allowed fans to ensure the football club they support is ran in a way which is approved by them. With owners able to purchase 49% of a stake in a club they could still inject and influence a football club.So German fans could enjoy the best of both worlds in owning their own football club alongside a rich owner.

But with massive money comes massive egos. Would a football owner be happy only owning only 49% ?They wouldn’t want to answer to football fans of the club who will not look at business decision in the same light as a pure business person would they in truth.

Not easy but the picture below shows the way it's gone and the desk logo of 'Euro next' points the way it was going up until this week.£800 million the clowns raised by loans to buy that shower of a club that stakeholders now want payback on.Not so smug and smiling now though are they.

Salary caps have worked to a degree in rugby union and especially in rugby league.

The tension at the heart of the issue is between equality between clubs and being able to live within your means ie you can have the mortgage you can afford.

A lot of the FFP rules smack a little of pulling the ladder up behind the big clubs so it is hard to follow.

This issue has been debated since the late 1990s without any proper resolution so there probably needs to be some form of independent intervention as turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.

[spaldy]

An argument could be strongly supported that the yanks have either triggered this super league crises or greatly contributed to it. Certainly the slimiest vermin involved in this include the yanks as driving forces behind it.

Kind of ironic since I believe that almost all yank pro leagues involve salary caps.

Salary caps do work. the way around it is a hefty "luxury tax". if scumchester want to blow through the cap that's fine. They pay a huge % tax on the amount over the threshold and that money is distributed to the other teams in the league. Those teams often do much better with their money than the big clubs and it's good for parity.

Exceptions are made for players that were signed early and resign with their club as they become stars.

it's a sure fire way to make sure that you are serious about signing high dollar players.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Looks like this one is set to run on for a while now Perez has come out and said there are binding contracts in place and those that signed up can’t just leave.

Some that have commented think there is. 150m release payment required. What a shame that would be if it costs the greedy [insert your own choice of words] that much as that pretty much wiped out most Prem League TV money for some!