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In his exclusive column for CaughtOffside, former Liverpool attacker Stan Collymore discusses some of football’s biggest talking points, including the recent FFP charges brought against Nottingham Forest and Everton, the future of Jose Mourinho and what have we learned from the Henderson/Saudi Arabia situation?
Does Football need an NFL-style salary cap to ensure fairness?
I have got no problem with any club that have fallen foul of breaking financial fair play rules being punished. However, the situation regarding these regulations has moved on a lot.
In 1992, the Premier League and Champions League started, which locked in the clubs that qualified that year and gave them a licence to print money. Was that unfair? yes, it was. It basically meant that if you were in the Championship or lower down in that Premier League table, you didn’t get the leg up that a club like Arsenal did.
Man City, Nottingham Forest and Everton would argue: ‘Liverpool, Man United, Arsenal, and Chelsea to a lesser degree, have benefited massively by being in the top four and the Champions League season in, season out since 1992. How do you expect us, equally as big clubs, to be able to compete with them.’
FFP was born out of a noble idea, the fact that clubs could only spend within their means, but what it has done is still allowed nations states to come in with bottomless pits of money and find every single way when charges are thrown at clubs to kick things into the long grass. I am not saying that is Man City or Newcastle, but I am saying that if you have state money you can just push things done the line forever.
As for Everton and Nottingham Forest, they have wealthy owners, but they don’t have the means to allow things to go on forever. They also pleaded guilty, whilst Man City have stated that they are innocent of all charges.
What I’d like to see going forward is the global governing bodies now get their heads around an NFL-style salary cap. That is the only way to be…
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Author : Stan Collymore
Publish date : 2024-01-19 09:00:16
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