wage bill

this wage cap and the leveling of the playing fields in scottish football

is in effect just resetting things back to when billy big bollocks (minty moonbeams) used the banks money to chase the european cup

we were never big spenders our boardroom were always too tight lol

we had much tighter games against aberdeen, dundee utd, hearts and hibs but we still were better more often than not because we are celtic and have bigger crowds and therfore could afford better wages and had more aspiring footballers wanting to play for us and had a good cause

sadly we are a massive club and play in a very small league

there is no one else as big or as famous as us that comes from a tiny footballing country such as scotland

i say sadly because i believe we are a magical club and just as big as barcelona, manchester united, liverpool but they have the benefit of big leagues big money and big tv at their disposal but it looks like we will never reach the destiny of playing them on equal footings

but then again that's the same thing that makes us special

we were/are able to take on the best that football has to offer and give them a fight/fright where by every reasonable comentator says we shouldn't havent a hope

that just makes us even bigger and better because we are just as famous as them with none of the extra benefits that they have

 

If Squillaci was on £50 000 a week and he is 50 times the player I am. Then I should be getting £1000 a week in my Sunday league team!
That's does it!!
I'm having a word to the committee......


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Oxlade Chamberlain on £20k a week??

What are our youngsters on? I imagine a small fraction of that.

 

But are these new FIFA Fair Play rules that are coming into the game supposed to help with the overspending on players from clubs?

The thing with all these huge wages is that you get one club that starts it then everyone seemingly has to try and follow suit just to keep up. That was really the case with Moonbeams splashing (the banks) cash everywhere - he done that and a lot of the other clubs feel that THEY had to overspend to try and keep up.

Something definitely needs done, though, because the way the money gets spent on players wages is *' ridiculous. For instance, look at the money that Chelski spent on one player alone in Torres a year and a half ago. They forked out £50m just to buy him and then the contract that he is on is about £45m over 5 years, which means he's getting about £173,000 a week! £95m on ONE * player!

Think this is a pretty interesting look at the EPL clubs for the 10/11 season -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...l-health-of-the-Premier-League-laid-bare.html

 

The way I look at it is this:

The epl get the majorty of their cash via sky.
The epl player average wage is huge
If they got half off that wage,maybe my sky bill would be half the price.

I pay 80 pound a month for sky. That's a thousand pound a year I gave them,so they use that money,to pay epl clubs vast sums of cash,and the likes of john oshea can earn 70k a week,the world is crazy.

Football is for the people. If the fans turned their backs on sky,a boycott. You might see the wheels startiog to turn.

Simple equation sky - pay less to epl and let the working man pay less to you.

 

Haha fair enough Devlin. I should re- negotiate my (non existing) sunday league contract! And get myself an agent while I'm at it.

Spot on Taz, really broke it down very well there. I was particularly interested in your thoughts about a draft system as this is something I never pictured in football. But the problems have been stated, it would have to be introduced all around at the same time which makes it nearly impossible to happen. Unfortunately.

Germany has quite a different system to keep it's clubs down to earth when to comes to player wages. There has a rule been installed that obliges clubs to keep 50% of it's corporation's shares + 1 share to themselves. That is supposed to interrupt Investors from taking over and having too much of a say. Yet it is allowed for the majority of a club's capital to be held by a private person, which unfortunately softens the rule a lot, e.g. Hoffenheim where billionaire Hopp shovels shitloads of money into the club acting as a private person.

The idea behind this is to have clubs act as responsible companies that don't spend more money then they occupy and eventually disallow investors to throw these conducts right out of the window with their cash injections. These rules apply to every professional club in Germany except for Bayer Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg, as they historically link to the companies they where founded by.

Anyway, there's criticism rising as the 50+1 rule is presumably in breach of European law and hence might go down soon enough.