How will new financial rules affect the Premier League? 

The only problem with this is that it damages PL ability to attract the best players, which damages the product, which damages the bottom line. So I don't think what you're suggesting is particularly likely.

Is this a bad thing. It will even the playing field. Eventually

That would be awful,

​@@acyborgtrickstergropeLa Liga already has salary caps and it's not stopped Madrid from recruiting talent like Bellingham or (most likely) Mbappe

Wrong this will make poorly run teams like Man U drop to the championship cuz they just can’t throw money at problem

I love the fact you probably only think about city in your entire life buddy 😂🤣

Because they're the ones cheating the financial rules all the time, there's a reason everyone thinks of City as soon as financial rules are mentioned, the club is built on dodging the rules. ​@@pullmanguard2316

@@pullmanguard2316 it is true, admiration and hatred but hopefully not for long

Utd have made 4 200m+ signings

The bottom club will have every single one of their games televised. Also multi-clubs will "loan" their players from one of their other clubs and pay a fraction of the wages, etc. Ton of ways round it

The game is based on the principle of sporting merit, not which owners have the deepest pockets. Buying the title is cheating, plain and simple.

@@andrewness all that does is let the long established clubs continue to buy the league, just because they got rich first.

@@newcmags3253 They earned success and can reap the rewards. I know American sports have a more communist approach, but here we don't reward failure or punish success like that.

The system should promote efficient, well-run clubs which go about their business in the right way, what you’re arguing for is a setup which values investment above all else and will only encourage backhanded financial manipulation like we’ve seen from City for the past decade, the focus shifts from running the club well to how well you can hide the money you’re pouring into the club

@@newcmags3253 They "got rich" by being successful on the pitch, which is as it should be. You have to earn it. Build up a club by investing in infrastructure as much as you like, there's no cap on that. Clubs do come and go from the top spots. If it's just about the wealthiest taking everything what's the point in competing?

But Barcelona is currently in an insane amount of debt?

The Premier league self regulates, that's why these need to be voted through by all of the clubs!

@@freescoring I didn't say 'self regulate'. I said 'preapprove spending'. The Spanish league does it and they don't have stupid point deductions over there

@@freescoring Self regulation = no regulation. It's like asking the thieves to decide on their sentences and on what methods the police can use to track and catch them.

RU-vid does it, not content creators.

I agree. I just wish some American sports had regulation and didn't have so many stoppages of play and commercial breaks. I understand why but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Minus the money bits I really like a lot of how the EPL does things.

Idk, as an American I’ve always found the hierarchical structure of the ever changing Premier League much more compelling than the NFL, where you’re rewarded for playing badly and teams just coast along the bottom, quietly stagnating in mediocrity. It may seem appealing, but in reality the American system makes for much less excitement than the Premier League, even when City are dominating

@@Flash4ML not necessarily in the nba almost all 30 teams have won the league at one point or the other In pl, about 3 actually truly compete and the rest just coast there in mediocrity We have situations where the teams that went up, go down almost immediately And the middle teams do not improve they just stay in the league

@@anjolatope-babalola2338 yes, in the American leagues there is always the possibility that your team will rise to the top at some point, but this is a long wait for most, and in the meantime the cycle is much less interesting. With the actual season, for me there are either too little (NFL, CFB) or too many (NBA, NHL, MLB) games, Premier League hits the sweet spot for me with two games per opponent, home and away. There are no cup games, no Europe (though we have playoffs, so we can cancel that out as a negative. If you have no chance of making the playoffs, there’s literally just nothing to play for except draft picks, which improve if you finish *lower,* which just encourages bad teams to wallow at the bottom and serve as punching bags for the more fortunate, dolefully awaiting the day when the stars align and they dig themselves out of their hole. That’s another thing, I know it might be controversial but I really don’t like the draft system, I think it completely sterilizes the recruitment system, which is much more organic and interesting in the futbol world. That and the transfer market, which go hand in hand - the global football market is so much more dynamic and compelling than in any American sport, it’s not even close. I know it might seem appealing at first to mid table sides who never see glory, or to relegation-threatened clubs whose future and relevancy is in the balance, but it is absolutely an all-encompassing system which only works with all the parts, so you get all these bad things too. Also just from an aesthetic point, I think European sports have an authenticity and a grit to them that is really taken for granted, you don’t know you have it until you realize how corporate and touristy professional American sports are, it’s really an important factor. That’s why college sports are the best in the US, because the people really actually care, there’s actually something to rally behind, not just a franchise which could up and leave whenever it wants

No

Thank God

Can see why they are so scared of the regulator. While everyone was worried about far east money no one seemed to have notice half the league being taken over by Yanks

i mean the unchained capitalism of the premier league is pretty American

As soon as half the league was taken over by Americans we should have known this would happen. We’ll have half time shows and national anthem before games next 🤢

The country has been Americansised for years pal. What do you expect

Luxury tax might be a better choice, it made MLB more balanced. In EPL case, it could retroactively charge City near Billion Pound.

“An actual salary cap similar to the NFL will not work in the PL” And yet all the data provided by financial experts proves the contrary. Are we expected to take the word of a RU-vid no mark over the former? That would be a no. The dimwittery really has no bounds.

Yeah “everyone agreeing” that the sustainability of clubs is an issue. . . I mean the clubs certainly aren’t going anywhere, it’s the owners who are at risk. As a fan, even if the owners tank my club, there will always be another to replace them and pick up the pieces, even if the club is relegated. Trying to remove the jeopardy of owning a football club and making them a more sustainable business doesn’t do anything for me as a fan, it’s only a priority for these billionaires who don’t want to risk their fortunes on a football pitch. Other than limiting oil giants like City and Newcastle, I don’t see how this is something the average premier league supporter should be backing

With 4 different UCL finalists in the last five years

@@kitotapgono1467I’m guessing he means the city/Liverpool dominance

Boring, not like the other top 5 leagues who have all already decided their champion and have 3 league losses between them

A lot of that is Pep I feel, and the staff. Hopefully when he leaves other clubs will be in a position to seize the initiative and knock them off their perch, but I agree that they need to be limited

United did the same thing two decades ago. Did you complain then? Did it kill the league? If so, why are you watching this?

@@miseconor8104 I am watching it because I can But humor me What do you think ibam complaining about ?

@@anjolatope-babalola2338 I don’t know what you’re complaining about, that’s my point. It’s not a new issue and it’s not one what anybody seemed to care about when United won 6/7 & 7/9

@@miseconor8104 Lmao, you dont know what I am complaining about, I don't care who has won the most titles in a row or in 10 years Before you start crying, read the comment again

Maybe it will force Premier League owners to run their clubs better lol

But the principle of a pyramid system is that you earn your way to the top by being successful. Why should a team be hamstrung because other teams aren't as successful. In American sport the worst team gets the first pick in the draft, that isn't sporting integrity and in my opinion neither are these rules.

But the difference in earnings between them and every other PL club is down entirely to their brand, club itself, historical fanbase etc, etc. Given they play the same opponents each year as their lower earning peers. So they would see that extra money as their's to spend as they see fit. Also, not to be mean, but United don't owe any of their revenue to any League 2 side for example in any meaningful way; if that entire league was suspended for a year would it impact their balance sheet? I don't think so. If anything this cap is probably what United need to be honest - get them to focus on getting value for money like everyone else