I think this is more of a slur on reckless club owners and their over stretching ambitions. I've posted re my concerns about us clawing back a wage structure and attaining sustainability. I think this thread has sympathy for the fans, loathing of owners and disappointment at governing bodies ineptitude. You are right though - the loathing only happens when it goes wrong (because we all harbour ambitions for our clubs).
Exactly, the perfect scenario would be for the domestic game to go FTA on TV, a wage cap and a ticket price cap. Clubs could stay in business, fans could afford games and we would have overpaid twats like Pennant who left an £90k porsche abandoned because he forgot he bought it.
Its the players I cant stand and it all started with the bosman ruling, clubs have to contend in order to compete. If theres a wage cap, teams will concentrate on bringing their own players through rather than picking the best off everyone else. Id also ban clubs from paying agents.
If you had standardised contracts (just a select few allowable clauses and no image rights) then wage caps would make agents pretty much redundant. Seems a bit hopeful though - they say you're never more than 2 metres away from a rat and I think the same applies to agents.
But if you have a wage cap and the clubs arent allowed to pay agents, agents wont be getting multimillion fees for a few hours work, the players wont want to pay them much if they are on a wage cap themselves. So it clamps down on them massively and they wont be able to syphon hundreds of millions out of the game every year.
Yeah, I thought I'd come in on the generic things to start with and move onto the QPR specific things when there's something relevent to what I know about. That's what I was saying about thinking Boston were the team that did it. They were the same season as Leeds. I've got a feeling Rotherham did it the other way round as well, someone in L1 anyway was going to go into admin but the results were going for them so they held it up so that they'd start the next season in L1 with a penalty rather than in L2 without one. The majority of their biggest earners are still on the contracts from before the first administration. You can't really do anything to Pompey when there's nobody who'll pay them the same wages so the players won't leave. They tried letting two of them go to Ipswich in January and the players turned down the move. Pompey could have said that if they'd gone they'd pay the extra £10k or whatever they were short, but then how much would Pompey be saving when they need to sign replacements on loan to ensure there's enough players to fulfill their fixtures? I've also just seen that when you go into liquidation UEFA seem to ban you from European competition for 3 years. Nothing to do with Pompey, but is relevent to the Rangers situation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17116759
They went out and bought Kitson and Haim right after they agreed a 10k wage cap as part of the CVA, they are on 20k and 30k each. Id have sympathy if it was as a result of previous contracts but they did not learn and carried on handing out stupid money. Thats why they deserve a harsher punishment.
