Should be a rule introduced by the FA/FIFA

[mrbrightside73]

That if a club has,in writing,told another club that a player is not for sale,then the club that wishes to buy cannot make a monetry offer.It would stop players being unsettled,and would also stop the current mentality of the big clubs,which seems to be that they can do what they like,whenever they like.

 

[TheGreenLily]

That if a club has,in writing,told another club that a player is not for sale,then the club that wishes to buy cannot make a monetry offer.It would stop players being unsettled,and would also stop the current mentality of the big clubs,which seems to be that they can do what they like,whenever they like.

I would agree to that.

Big money now is destroying the sport and turning it into a circus. It is about time they put the reins on it and dragged it back normality.

 

[DFF]

You actually think they'd do anything? They'd probably punish us for having the temerity to rock the boat of the moneyed elite.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

On the question of the ridiculous finance situation in football, I've sometimes felt like a lone voice saying that wages and transfer fees should be capped, although I now hear more people joining me in that particular debate.

Regarding players leaving clubs, there was a time when a player was not allowed to leave his club if "registered" with them and that ruling was overturned in the famous Bosman court case which changed the stronghold a club had on a player, refusing to allow him to transfer to another club and not even allowing him to play. That had to change.

I can't see it going back to the old system, but something most certainly has to be done about the present system. If a player has signed a contract and then wants to leave before it expires, there could be a compensation clause which means he has to pay the club back a sizeable portion of earnings as he has not fulfilled his contract and has disrupted the building and progress of the team.

Of course, he may well make that up very quickly with increased wages when he goes, unless capping to a reasonable level is introduced for both salary and transfer fees.

That would certainly be one in the eye for greedy agents too and I, for one, would be happy about that.

It would also assist less well-off clubs to enter the competition to sign good players and perhaps help to take away some of the power of the richer clubs who dominate the Premiership. Another knock-on effect could be for supporters, with ticket and season ticket prices not being increased by huge amounts each season.

I know it's all unlikely to happen, but I can continue to hope that common sense will prevail one day.

 

[StartingPrice]

What annoys me is that when Jimmy Hill and his cronies were fighting to have the wage cap scrapped the primary justification was that players had a short playing career and then that was it. It was true, the lucky ones got a pub to manange.
But it is a crap argument now. They are fed one lucrative deal after another, both before and after retiring form the game. I swear some of them issue a new, dfeinitive, autogiography for every year of their playing career, and the public laps it all up.
It was also true that their skill and endeavour was pouring a fortune into clubs...but surely, beyond a certain slice of the pie, now, anything they ask for is still just greed.

 

[alex3]

can u really see fifa doing that, after what's been going on with them the last few months

 

[Coyboy]

But when we want to buy a player, it should be ok.