The FA need force a Pay structure onto our teams. (IMHO)

[Manlove is my forte]

Is it just me or are footballers being well overpaid and becoming unnecessarily greedy?

If I was a top class professional footballer I would be happy at earning 1 million a year from the club

that works out at about 20k per week I would then get what ever sponsorship I need.

footballers playing at their best (and most valuable time) have between a 10 and 15 year career.

this equates to between 10 and 15 million minimum for a playing career.

lets then discuss a well paid office worker. getting 50K per year over the period of his career which currently is about 45 years which works out at 2.25 million.

This shows that a footballer earns more than enough to support himself to the end of his days with a more than comfortable lifestyle.

For this reason I think that the FA should put a cap on the amount our football teams are allowed to pay players. (this figure would obviously change with inflation)

The players currently earning more than this figure may keep their current wage until their next contract.

At first this will have a detrimental effect on the league. A lot of the big names will leave. So will most of the foreigners. But it will allow the teams to get out of the debt they are in. Making the teams stronger and allowing them to invest more money in youth training and scouting. The continental clubs that don't follow suit will find themselves in greater debt and will eventually go bankrupt.

Our new players will also be sought after by the European teams as they will be looking for players that get results whilst not costing much in wages.

We need to take the lead in this sort of policy. It will be a hard and bitter pill to swallow at first but it will lead to greater prosperity in our leagues.

There will be less of a worry for teams that get relegated.

Currently all of out teams are in Debt. if things do not change we wont have a football league.

 

[Manlove is my forte]

Originally posted by Gilly
The thing is, this would then take away from the top clubs, that have the money and the success purely because they've built it up.

I think it's unfair to take away from the top clubs, though I agree something needs to be done to help out the lower clubs, I just don't agree that a forced payscale is the way forward

It didnt take you long to reply. Sometimes I wonder how you got 6k+ posts but now I know you must read well fast.

edit Just looked at your count 8K


Anyway. you are right the top teams will suffer most. But I would image that they would resign their contracts with their stars just before a pay structure change. Meaning that they would keep their current team. They could then focus on bringing in youth players and the such. Also if a foreign player was going to come into this country to play. but knew he was only going to get around 20k who would he rather get the 20k from man u or Tottenham?

The teams could easily make up the difference in players salary by encouraging sponsorship deals between companies and players.

Do you think Beckham would be so rich if he was a Southampton player? I don't. Being part of Man U has made him rich. If the big clubs work with and encourage companies to sponsor their players then the players will still make the big bucks.

I hear Real request half of the players sponsorship money. I think this is a bit unfair. but then I guess it is one way of recouping the costs of the wages. I think it would work better if teams did the opposite.