http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25418135 Can't see this being a good thing tbh. Will only help to keep the top teams at the top.
Yes and no It could help fringe players move from a club if they're desperately unhappy, and their manager refuses to play them for no real reason. However, it gives players even more power over their respected club, and i have no doubt that clubs will offer to pay out their contract if they want to sign them. I.e Real Madrid agreeing to pay out Ageuro's contract if he wanted a big money move.
So smaller teams could lose their prize assets for just the price of a contract.. This could backfire.
Anybody recall Grant Holt at Norwich - he was a red hot commodity two seasons ago during a great scoring run. Imagine a desperate big club paying his contract but guaranteed him a 5 year one at 100K a week. He is off the boil now but what are the club stuck with? Might be a proposal to reduce wages in the long term, which is not in the players interest, or an effort for season by season contracts.
If players want the same rights as all other employees does that mean they can also be sacked mid contract? It may well be a reality check for many. With no transfer fees paid expect tickets and merchandise to cost more to pay for the inevitable salary increases at ALL clubs just to keep the better players they have.
Sacked with no pay off if they don't perform? Id suspect a majority of overpaid, underperforming, average players will be ****ting bricks over that thought.
So if they completely remove transfer fees then what happens to the £billions spent by clubs on saleable assets (which is what all players are). We nett spent about £1m in the transfer window overall. But in that we purchased players worth an estimated £20m in total. These players are now worth nothing to the club?? It'd be like walking into an IT firm and removing any value from the assets and simply saying they're not worth anything Edit: Don't people get "headhunted" working in business?? My mate was head-hunted for his financial directors position and the company he now works for had to pay the company he previously worked for. Is this any different?
It could force transfer fees and wages down because of the risk of a fee loss. Could make the market more competitive, or could **** everything up.
Wages would do even more stupid than they are now, there would have to a salary cap to go with this to encourage competition, so for instance a club might have 6 players allowed up to 200,000 a week, 6 up to 100,000 and the rest sub 50,000. With no transfer fees most clubs could afford that. BUT on the flip side teams should be able to terminate contracts of these players just as easy if they get relegated, this should stop clubs going out of business and create competition, with players signing 1 year deals only, Jan window scrapped unless its loans..............hey get me Blatter's number!!!
Its BS IMO If successful, the move could allow players to serve notice on their contracts as other workers can. In theory, that would mean a player would be able to tell his club he wanted to leave and hand in his notice. Another club could then pay up the remainder of the player's contract and he would be able to join them without a transfer fee being paid. For example Arsenal come in for Fletcher pay up the remaining 3 years on his contract lets say 40k a week = 6,240,000 & he leaves. We paid 14m for him all this is going to do is make the players, agents more money & ruin football clubs. Total ****e idea
