Wouldn't things be better if no one club were allowed to outspend all - would the UK public support this idea?
830667
It's a good idea, but I'm afraid it wouldn't work in practice.\n\nLook at the talk about Beckham going to America.  They have a maximum wage, but the president of the team he is likely to go to will arrange sponsorship from one of his other companies to make up the difference.\n\nIt would be like Chelski paying Shevchenko £50,000 a week, but Abramovich plc sponsoring him £80,000 a week.\n\nAll we can hope for is that Abramovich loses interest, and Man Utd relocate to New York.
82115
no if they cant support any already having more would just make it harder
1146922
It's not impossible. Britian does it NOW! What has to happen though is that the free healthcare will come directly from taxes, so our tax rate would jump to about 15-20%. England does that now and it's working fine. I think it definitely CAN be done.
497417
If they really needed it then why not.\nGet  people to sponsor you to do something (football match , run, silence, reading marathon). Garage sale.
634203
They might accept charity but it's likely that it will come from the hard working poor people and middle class. It's all these Liberal Democrats who got us into this mess to began with. They are the ones that should have to pay!
310205
by increasing the prize money and salaries... teams would automatically recruit better players and impiort some from abroad too... fans come to watch good football, not just their team winning. If the players would be better the game would anyways be good and fans would be more.\nplus the game also needs better sponsorship in the states, which is not there
856819
Please pay attention.  The whole propaganda exercise has been to persuade the electorate to accept the idea of state funding for political parties.  By introducing a law in which donors must declare themselves to public view, many have backed off.  All three major political parties in UK have heavy debts in the millions.  These scheming politicians want us to pay off their debts and go on paying into their party funds from out taxes.  Not only will our council tax bills get even bigger so too will other taxes.  You can see already how politicians behave with our money - check out the spiralling out of control cost of the Olympics in London 2012 - now three times the original budget and rising.  The same increases will be applied to state funding of political parties.\n\nVOTE NO!
999830
just according to how much money they get in pensions\nif they only get enough to pay board ,  they would get vey little to spend
305178
No, your not.  The government is absolutely dreadful at distributing money.  Particularly this administration, which also has yet to figure out that you can't increase spending and decrease income at the same time.  I figure that one out when I was like five.
521645
fantastic idea!\nno one would be homeless\nor poor\non a sunday they could all go and pick up rubbish or plant a tree.
550826
Sounds like a good idea in theory, but sometimes the reserves need to be used. Otherwise there's no point in having them.
1012959
No, money can't do everything. Team spirit is more important. If everyone in Chelsea has the same spirit as Lampard, then Chelsea have a chance; if they keep on buying players who don't gel, they won't win anything except the Premier League.
927823
Nothing.  And think what £300 could do for a good charity.  Don't be greedy -think of the needy
253541
Yes, I would.  FINALLY someone who feels the same way I do.  Usually, it's the large market teams who hate the idea of this.  Currently teams such as the Red Sox, Yankees, and a handful of others, rule the league.  Why?  Because of their ownership's huge pocket-books.  The team I root for, and many others, aren't so fortunate.  We live in smaller markets, and simply can't shell out the big bucks for big-name players.  It's not because of our losing records that we don't draw huge crowds every game, allowing us to make more money.  It's the fact that we just live in smaller cities with smaller populations.  Beside that fact, we have lower ticket prices, because the market value in our area doesn't support higher ticket prices.  If we lived in an area where we could charge more, we'd have more capital to spend on the big name players.  However, the reality is that we don't.  Why should we be punished because of our geographical location?  These larger-market teams have payrolls 4 or more times that of the smaller-market clubs.  It simply isn't fair, and we just can't compete.  Face it.  It's simple.  If you don't have enough capital to spend, you won't even compare to the clubs who do...and your record at the end of the season will show it.  If you can't afford the big home-run sluggers, and ace pitching staff, you won't even be a match to these larger teams.  As it stands, look at the All-Star game every year.  All the starters you see play for large-market teams, and are making huge salaries that small-market teams couldn't even dream of affording.  Some people say this isn't true, because of the fact that you do see a small-market team make it to the post-season from time to time.  This does happen periodically, but it doesn't happen consistently from year to year...unlike the Yankees, who are in the post-season almost every single year.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that as they way it stands, the MLB isn't even a fair contest.  So yes, a salary cap is definitely needed.
320317
No the governments wouldn't let you give it away freely under any circumstanstance.  They would want to make a buck from it while limiting others access, as usual. Money & Power...\n\nThey would definitely kill you if you didn't play ball (after they robbed all your designs)
435435
All in the name of money my friend.When the European Cup inugarated in 1956 the participants were the domestic Champions of all the European Leagues.But as Leagues such as Serie A,La Liga and The English League(now the Premiership) got stronger UEFA saw they could male money out of it by inviting the 2nd,3rd/4th place teams into the competition.And with Television and the G14 group this competition is one big money spinner that is worth £10m just for going into the Group Stage.This is the biggest Club Football Competition in the World.
382940
Yes give to the Arcadian kicked out by the Britt's, thank god for king Louie of France.\nTo answer your question yes they should but its impossible to do that because Government would have to comp all of us