Man City - the new bitters?

[Scott_M]

19 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

 

Fuck that right off. I wonder who is floating this idea then...?

Wouldn’t surprise me if it was the majority. 

[TheHowieLama]

9 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Wouldn’t surprise me if it was the majority. 

 

Every team in the bottom 10 would profit  - the top 3 or 4 teams would support it for sure.

 

The way the league - and UEFA for that matter - have handled City has made this inevitable.

City were always, and are now, willing to pay whatever it takes - whether that be to lawyers or other clubs - they don't give a shit as long as it keeps the status quo, which is they do whatever they want financially.

[Scott_M]

Just now, TheHowieLama said:

 

Every team in the bottom 10 would profit  - the top 3 or 4 teams would support it for sure.

The next thing would be the timescales for paying the fine? What if it was late? Would they then go to points or increase the fine, which IMO is counter productive. 
 

What for repeat offenders?

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Scott_M said:

The next thing would be the timescales for paying the fine? What if it was late? Would they then go to points or increase the fine, which IMO is counter productive. 
 

What for repeat offenders?

 

It's not a fine - it's a tax. Exactly the same as baseball use now.

 

[Carra_is_legend]

40 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

 

Fuck that right off. I wonder who is floating this idea then...?

 

Rishi Sunak ?

[dave u]

Some of the freeloading cunts at the bottom would defo go for that as what do they care how much the top few clubs are spending? It's free money to them. Newcastle would be all over it too and we'd end up with Abu Dhabi and the Saudis in a dick measuring contest, with the likes of us, Arsenal, Spurs, even Utd and Chelsea not being able to keep up and losing players to them. If this came in, there'd be absolutely nothing stopping Newcastle offering, say Trent, Macca, Odegaard and Saka £2m a week wages.

[Bobby Hundreds]

So the sportwashers outright buy the sport.

[Pete]

6 minutes ago, dave u said:

Some of the freeloading cunts at the bottom would defo go for that as what do they care how much the top few clubs are spending? It's free money to them. Newcastle would be all over it too and we'd end up with Abu Dhabi and the Saudis in a dick measuring contest, with the likes of us, Arsenal, Spurs, even Utd and Chelsea not being able to keep up and losing players to them. If this came in, there'd be absolutely nothing stopping Newcastle offering, say Trent, Macca, Odegaard and Saka £2m a week wages.

But football's for the fans, right? 

[Creator Supreme]

7 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

So the sportwashers outright buy the sport.

They've bought golf, they're buying tennis, why not football?

[Carra_is_legend]

That line of thinking summarizes this country and government in a nutshell. 

[Barrington Womble]

it would be hard to believe that this would benefit anyone but the 2 oil clubs and chelsea. even those at the bottom with their hands out, i don't really see how it is good for them. and it'll be less good if it is just there for an EFL emergency fund. who's going to vote for this? and what if you can't pay the luxury tax? 

 

i have never really liked the idea of fucking off to the ESL, but if teams can just buy the league, what's the point in staying. 

[Barrington Womble]

does mike keegan have a record for getting stuff like this right? 

[Manny]

3 tier premier league, well done lads.

• At the bottom, teams who can't afford even a one-off luxury tax, and for whom points deductions are potentially financially fatal.
• In the middle, teams who can sort of afford a luxury tax, and could potentially weather points deductions, but who want to be run sustainably - and likely couldn't afford regular application of a luxury tax.
• At the top, teams who have limitless resources to pay repeated luxury taxes and can therefore spend with utter impunity.

What the fuck do they think the outcome of this is? One fucking window of moderate sanity and there aren't enough beaks getting wet. We need the state wealth sugar daddies to come back in and spread some of that lovely dough around the sport - and if the competition gets fucked then who cares. As long as the right people get paid.

 

What a fucking shitshow.

[Creator Supreme]

8 minutes ago, Manny said:

3 tier premier league, well done lads.

• At the bottom, teams who can't afford even a one-off luxury tax, and for whom points deductions are potentially financially fatal.
• In the middle, teams who can sort of afford a luxury tax, and could potentially weather points deductions, but who want to be run sustainably - and likely couldn't afford regular application of a luxury tax.
• At the top, teams who have limitless resources to pay repeated luxury taxes and can therefore spend with utter impunity.

What the fuck do they think the outcome of this is? One fucking window of moderate sanity and there aren't enough beaks getting wet. We need the state wealth sugar daddies to come back in and spread some of that lovely dough around the sport - and if the competition gets fucked then who cares. As long as the right people get paid.

 

What a fucking shitshow.

You're just a bitter jealous scouse bastard.

[Anubis]

Can’t see 14 clubs voting for this, but you never know.

[Jairzinho]

Fair play to them, just when you think there can't possibly be any way of making modern football any shitter than it already is and they pull this out of the hat.

 

Essentially, an upfront bribe to circumvent the rules.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I'm completely out of the sport if this happens. It reeks of people being bought and are now looking to appease their paymaster but still hand out what looks like a punishment.

[Arniepie]

11 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Fair play to them, just when you think there can't possibly be any way of making modern football any shitter than it already is and they pull this out of the hat.

 

Essentially, an upfront bribe to circuvent the rules.

thats essentially what it is

[Pete]

But we (and we alone) broke football by trying to leave the Premier league.  Gary Neville said so. 

[Creator Supreme]

It's like the football equivalent of wanting rid of the NHS.

 

"I can pay for private health care, but I want to reduce my tax burden. So if you peasants can't pay for health care you'll just have to die!"

[Pidge]

Luxury tax only makes sense in the context of a wage cap. Would be beyond stupid to just have an open door to buying the title.

[coachpotato]

3 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Luxury tax only makes sense in the context of a wage cap. Would be beyond stupid to just have an open door to buying the title.

So what’s new?

[No2]

The last 6 months have been great for football. Clubs that thought the rules were for others have found its not the case. On the back of this the idea is madness, the January transfer window was the first sane window in living memory. The knock on affects of proper enforcement were visible for all to see. That ultimately benefits everyone bar agents and maybe players and those looking for change the rules before they feel the force of them.

[Code]

Got to be the worst idea ever. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Can we not just create a super league put City and Newcastle in it and let them play their bullshit while the rest of the clubs carry on with the sport.