Friday, 20 March 2009
Caps on or off?
The Chief Executive of AC Milan, Adriano Galliani, has called for European football clubs to adopt an American-style salary-cap to help in sustaining them through the difficult current economic conditions. Galliani is also believed to have claimed that even English and Spanish clubs, which will account for six of the eight Champions League Quarter-Final places this year, need such a measure. Is this true? Or do Galliani's comments reflect the troubled position of a once pre-eminent football league? More importantly, given that such a cap would breach EU law, a voluntary agreement amongst clubs across Europe would be needed to organise and implement a cap. Given that English and Spanish clubs are currently in the ascendancy, how likely are they to agree to a measure that is intended to foster greater collective equality rather than individual prosperity? And is the salary-cap issue the acid test of how strong Europe's football community actually is?
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look at who are making the noise...wenger, galliani,...etc. from clubs that are struggling to compete with the wealth of barca, real, united, chelsea and now man city..(how wenger managed to pocket arshavin, ill never know )...
ReplyDeleteheck, i dont enjoy watching the same english teams play out the later stages of the champions league, i'm tired of chelsea - liverpool ucl nights...
but not in this day and age are the ruling power players going to agree on a cap...
monopoly is bad for the sport, but that's the way a capital market works right? :)