Soldato
Fair one, there is no real fair way of doing it but if transfer fees are paid up front, You can always sell a player to get rid of the wages if you get into trouble especially if you don’t have the transfer fee’s owed hanging round your neck, yes you lose a good player and may have to bring through a youth team player, and it may put you at risk of relegation, but it’s not going to put your club’s existence at risk.As for your suggestion, no owners would do it (as I've pointed out re Villa and Newcastle) and transfer fees are only a small part of the problem, wages are a greater issue. There's numerous ways you can make things fair but they won't all be sustainable and there's numerous ways you can make things sustainable but they won't be fair. There's only a couple of ways you can make things both sustainable and fair but the clubs/owners (on both sides of the fence) don't want them.
With regards to owners not wanting to do it, don’t give them the choice, I never thought I would ever say the next words I’m going to say but, give Mike Ashley his due when he was the owner of Newcastle, apart from his last season (he knew it wasn’t going to be his problem) all transfer fees were paid up front and in full for a transfer and apparently quite a large chunk of the contract cost was also set aside when a player was signed.
Right I’m now off to wash my mouth out with soap.
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