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Vish asked a question which I thought was worth a thread of its own.

Should there be a wage cap in the premiership and should more TV money go to the lower clubs.

The downside of this is many top players wont play in the prem and many talented UK players will go overseas. The upside is it will save the grass roots game in england, might help the national team and help keep the football community alive in the UK by the 92 clubs.

I prefer the latter and if less stars play in the prem so be it. It does not mean the premiership will be worse.

I think the EPL level will drop drastically as even the best British players will move abroad. A clear example would be France who has been constantly producing top players but ended up having a weak league having won European cups only twice or thrice. France didn't have a wage cap but clubs are not rich enough to pay high wages. Things has changed a bit with the Qatar buying PSG and a Russian buying Monaco. TV rights will end up decreasing and then best players leaving even more. That said, the England team will improve significantly though. I would probably stop watching the EPL or watch much less

League would become almost unwatchable. The best players in the league would be reserve players from big/top 4 clubs and the likes of soldado (unsure of his wages)

If a wage cap made it a better experience to go and watch teams all over the country and cheaper at whatever level then yes I am all for it.

No point in having a wage cap unless the money is going to
A.The 72 clubs who form our league and
B. The fans who attend the games through lower ticket prices.

To go and watch League 2 games here it is £18 on the day for adults. You could get two tickets to a top German game for that.
If I analysed all this I would get so angry about it and give up following the sport forever.

But we love it and that is why we are here and why we are so easily exploited.

Would be a decent idea if every league agreed to do so.

Would have to be a world wide wage cap for it to work.

It'll never happen though sadly. Far too many greedy fat cats and snuffling pigs in the trough full of truffles now.

Believe me League Two is unwatchable now and they charge £18 to get in. Each year the standard gets worse too.

Indeed but nobody is going to agree on it as they are all competing against each other for lucrative TV rights.

Agreed. Can you imagine Barcelona and Real Madrid having to share all those TV rights monies with lower teams from their own division? Let alone another division down. It would kill them.

Does the Bundesliga have a wage cap? It seems the German's are getting it right in terms of improving the quality of their domestic league and of course the national side.

I think a wage cap would be a good idea even if it temporarily has a negative effect on the quality of the teams in the premier league, the current situation is getting out of hand and for me it's become a question of morality, it's quite disgusting how much money some players are earning.