New spending cap ?

[Vegas Claret]

Premier League clubs to vote on spending cap tied to income of lowest earning club

hopefully the link works

https://archive.ph/Yt0DR

[bfcjg]

Quite interesting, everything is always geared up to yhe big clubs. That said if you are a big city club with big gates and the turnover that brings including more TV money then you can see their side of it as well.

[pureclaret]

Why not use the American idea where the position you finish means you get to chose players so the 3 teams from the championship would get to pick a player each from all teams in prem then 17th 16th etc so winner gets last picked player then it starts again for 7 rounds. making it a more equal compertion each year. Not sure top 2 or 3 clubs would want it when you think they could lose 20 x7 = 140 of thier palyers have now gone

[Hipper]

From reading the article this cap is almost meaningless if set at five times the lowest income - £518 million.

Only one club breached that rule - Chelsea - and that is if the calculations are based on one season as opposed to the usual spread of the fee over a number of seasons.

And surely unprincipled clubs would find some way around this - loan fees for example.