England is RUINING football.

To start with just look at the transfer fees that are being thrown about down south. Especially in the Championship now, Leicester, West Ham etc are spending £4m on players for a league that is 2nd tier!

IMO any 2nd tier league should have transfer fee and wage caps. This would make players think twice about moving to these clubs and it would mean that big rich arabs couldn't just come in and buy e.g Wimbledon AFC and make them the next Man City.

European football is being killed by the Championship and lower leagues in England/Spain/Germany/Italy. Players are being WASTED playing for these clubs in 2nd tier football leagues. It's also killing leagues such as our league, the Belgium league, the Danish league etc. But our league seems to have taken it the hardest imo because we are so close to England.

We need a petition for Fifa to cap the transfer fees and wages offered by these clubs in the lower leagues in England if we ever want out league to be good again like it was in the 60s/70s/80s.

Anyone else get what I'm saying?

 

Should just be a wage cap altogether imo, let players choose a team for the team and not for there bank balance.

Money is ruining football and forcing tickets prices etc up higher and higher and we all lose out due to it. One day it will come back to bite them in the *

 

Don't agree with wage caps at all. However teams should be using the money they make off of there own back, not a rich owner. Drives transfers and wages up and it will implode one of these days.

The likes of Wigan who spend 90% of their turnover on wages? Unsustainable. They are not the only club to do this as well.

 

How can the clubs in the lower leagues in England manage to pay these transfer fees though? It should not be allowed it is destroying every other league in the world and also it's meaning talented players are not getting to play in the CL etc.

 

It really has ruined Scottish football,

whenever a good player comes through in Scotland, the * take them, because of what they have to offer.

It's a joke, and i * hate English football for it, FAR too much money.

 

Liecester have a rich owner, parachute fees from the Premiership from the likes of West Ham and then you have the likes of Southampton who have been plundered a good few years for the likes of Walcott or that boy they just sold for £12m to Arsenal.

They have a lucrative TV contract with Sky and they do have large crowds there.

I don't think the Championship is the problem, it's the Premiership and the likes of Chelsea and Man City.

 

It's English football that's the problem. I * hate it for what it's done to football. I really hope the * falls out of it one day and all the clubs go bust. That'll be the day

 

The English are not the only nation in Europe that pays big on transfers...

 

where doi we start?

sky bailed out the english league thats a fact! that league was in dire straits 20 years ago as they money down there was non existant hence why players like butcher,steven,stevens,walters etc etc joined the manky mob due to meoney being here. sky has ruined football for me not england but they are to blame aswell with the shocking ott prices they pay in wages and tranfer fees too.

there should be a wage cap all over the world that way all clubs can be on nar enough an even kiel as to speak.too many are spending more than they should yet are still getting these top players. it sickens me noe seeing our league the way it is and thaem down there laughing and sneering at us cos they got * bailed out big time.one day this sky and epl will pop and i for one will * myself laughing at the *.so called big clubs down there who havent done hee haw for decades all of a sudden get bought over and spend ridiculous amounts on players etc its not right man! uefa need to * wake up and do something now cos the cl is fast becoming * boreing to watch aswell. you see the gulf there too and thats not right either.


and also now to mention the english werent the only ones to spend big! they have just took it beyond a joke now,

 

They're the ones that have inflated the market though.

 

Who else pays £35m for a player such as Andy Carroll?

 

The Championship & lower leagues are just a symptom. They are not the problem.

The problem lays squarely at the feet of the top flight & the ridiculous sums of money that are being thrown around. The current TV revenue deal for the entire SPL is £55m over 5 years. Man U & Man City have both spent more than this on 2 players each, with Chelsea expected to follow suit any day now. It is not sustainable wealth that is being generated, and if Abramovich were to pull his interest from Chelsea, that football club would quickly find itself up that well known creek without a paddle.

 

I don't agree with wage caps, are player can earn millions for their club, so they should be paid the same in return .

 

Totally agree with the wage cap idea. It would also have to mean signing on fees and bonuses had a cap aswell

 

Should 100% be a wage cap. This would solve the problem hands down.
With a wage cap, Billionaires couldnt buy clubs and turn them into a top team, players decisions would not be based on money etc ... List goes on.
Something needs to be done to sort this * state out.

 

i agree, england really has * up football for the worse

20 million for jordan henderson

 

You might find the new Financial Fair Play rules will have an impact on player wages over the next few years. Part of the reason many clubs agreed to go with the legislation was because of that. They've seen it as an opportunity.

I've heard and read differing opinions on this over the last few months though, so we'll just have to wait and see, I guess. However, I doubt clubs are going to want to spend 80%-90% of their revenues on player wages once this comes into play. It's a simplistic viewpoint right enough.

 

Completely agree with what's being said here, and the quicker something is done the better. With the huge wages being thrown around you can hardly find a player with any real loyalty to a club.

 

English footballs greed, will be there downfall. Look at all the leagues who have done similar in the past, Italian football is virtually on its * in terms of finance. They cannot sustain the spending and they cannot afford to neglect their national side either.

We are suffering badly from a similar attitude held for many years when the money was available.

 

German football could emerge as the top League over the next 10 years. England will suffer as their teams are in mountains of debt and Spain will only really have 2 great teams all the time due to the TV money there.