Originally posted by expressiveoutburstSo explain to me why football players shouldn't be worth exactly as much as someone is willing to pay?
When I posted this I meant for it to be all football, but put footballers as it fitted in the title space. Just because players dont have that long careers doesnt mean that they cant do something afterwards. Take the wigan chairman for example, he played for Man United in the days they didnt get paid that much, and since then he has made JJB Sport ...[text shortened]... ng the club with his firm and getting them to the Premiership.
Just one example of course......
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Originally posted by XanthosNZThis just has spiralled out of control on money with some players costing tens of millions of pounds/euros etc, and they could easily not spend that money and use it to develop young players, smaller clubs that are close to folding etc.
So explain to me why football players shouldn't be worth exactly as much as someone is willing to pay?
A basic wage would stop that from happening and allow clubs to survive more easily. Some clubs dont have the money to buy the best in the world so they have no chance of winining things like the big clubs that can afford it. It would bring new excitement to the leagues and cups if a different team could have a good chance to win the league etc unlike chelsea who will just buy the title every year until someone else invests in a club with more money, it will just get boring after a while dont you think?
Well, it's outrageous in any sport. The NBA has 12 player teams with 61 million dollar salary caps. That's an average of 5 mil per player. That's insane. A-Rod in the MLB's Yankees gets an astronomical salary that he really isn't deserving of. He's good sure, but not that good. But then again when you're the Yankees, you'll do stupid things.
Why is it that the supposedly iron law of supply and demand is rolled out to justify pisspoor wages for unskilled workers, yet when a worker is able, through a particular set of skills, to use the same economic mechanism to their advantage, everyone is up in arms?
While we still have this ridiculous economic system, this sort of thing is inevitable.
Originally posted by expressiveoutburstSo if a player comes on the market and every club can only offer him X dollars how do we decide where he goes?
This just has spiralled out of control on money with some players costing tens of millions of pounds/euros etc, and they could easily not spend that money and use it to develop young players, smaller clubs that are close to folding etc.
A basic wage would stop that from happening and allow clubs to survive more easily. Some clubs dont have the mo ...[text shortened]... ne else invests in a club with more money, it will just get boring after a while dont you think?
Originally posted by XanthosNZWe dont decide where he goes, he does! He might look at the clubs records in competitions, success, location, the manager, other players at the club...........and so on.
So if a player comes on the market and every club can only offer him X dollars how do we decide where he goes?
Originally posted by expressiveoutburstSay there are three good new prospects at Goalie this season and three teams who have vacancies at goalie (or are looking to upgrade).
Well they would have to think about first team oppurtunities as every football player cant play for the same team!
The team with the best record will get the best goalie (as it makes sense for the goalie to pick the team with the best record who will give him play time). The team with the second best record will get the second best goalie and the third team will get the third goalie.
Surely this will increase the distance between the teams not narrow it?