The issue with this is, there’s an insane amount of money in football. Absolutely insane. The money comes from advertisers and broadcasters. The money is always going to be there. There is no way to force clubs into spending their money in particular ways, short of (I assume) an ownership model where fans have some say. Short of that, the options for where the money goes are into the pockets of the players or into the pockets of the owners, and with that choice I prefer the players to get it since they’re the ones that actually earn that money.
you’re being a realist and I respect that.
However, (and this is possible just extremely unlikely) in an ideal world the government could introduce a whole host If legislation to cap fan ticket prices, cap how much sky can sell their football package to consumers, put new rules in surrounding the minimum wage of someone employed by a football club based on the wage of the ceo or something.
I’m living in a dream world, I know, but a great man once said if you can dream it you can build it , well I’d love to see some sort of system where companies forced to pay more in wages to their employees and less to their directors.
Bottom line is, how can it be right that the owners and sky and the Woodward’s of the world make so much money and yet the tea lady at old Trafford is probably on minimum wage. Surely the best alternative is not just to add yet another zero onto the player’s salaries?
Appreciate that this is almost impossible to put into words, but hopefully you guys get the jist of what I’m saying.