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[Sutekh]

No wonder there's talk of dumping all this stuff that's so open to abuse and moving to the simpler method of salary caps on squads.

Sadly that's open to abuse just as much.

All the morden-day equivalents of players finding a roll of fivers in their boots at training - secret payments to overseas bank accounts; inflated image-rights or marketing agreements with players from companies who happen to be owned by the club's owners; other third-party or agents' payments; - all sorts of secret and creative ways to do it.

Yep. The impact of a salary cap is it basically stops the likes of Mbappe existing, in a financial sense. And so Real (in this example) would just find other ways of paying him.

I agree, but as this sort of abuse is obvious so it should also be obvious to the authorities who should a) close every loophole and b) make it abundently clear to clubs that any "naughties" will be punished to the maximum with points deductions, excessive fines and, ultimately, demotion depending on the extent of the "naughties".

[Snowflake Royal]

At some point that moves into the territory of fraud. I'm game for keeping tightening the rules until it goes that way and the Police start becoming involved.

All contracts and payments really should go through a third party and be completely transparent to club, player, regulator and league.

[From Despair To Where?]

All that will happen though is that will hasten the resurrection of the ESL where no such financial limitations will apply.

I guess you could then ban all players and teams involved from UEFA, CONMEBOL etc and FIFA affiliated tournaments and hope that's a deterrent.

[Dirk Gently]

At some point that moves into the territory of fraud. I'm game for keeping tightening the rules until it goes that way and the Police start becoming involved.

All contracts and payments really should go through a third party and be completely transparent to club, player, regulator and league.

It's more about detection and enforcement than anything else.

Unscrupulous clubs and/or their owners will always be able to move money around secretly and off the books. Finding it and proving they did it will always be almost impossible or ridiculously expensive for football authorities.

[Orion1871]

City have been hit with another charge. This time for throwing a cup final to keep Erik ten Hag in a job.

[Sanguine]

Erling Haaland ties Owen, Kane and Henry with his eighth Premier League hat-trick. Aguero has the fastest hat-trick 'rate' on this particular list, with a treble every 23 games, which is impressive stuff. Haaland's hat-tricks come on average every 8.6 games.

[Winston Biscuit]

[Orion1871]

Even he's embarrassed about it.

[Royal Rother]

Recent results probably show just how good Rodri really is.

[Sutekh]

Recent results probably show just how good Rodri really is.

Utd fans probably now thinking there will be some hope for them in the games with City.

[BRO_BOT]

Recent results probably show just how good Rodri really is.

Utd fans probably now thinking there will be some hope for them in the games with City.

I'm glad this happened right before he takes over...it's on the players now! We know* the manager can do it, the ownership and structure has been sorted out, so time for those lazy pcunts to pull their fingers out!