[Dracoris]

I think a salary cap would've been the best option. That way you can't just buy 8 WC players b/c they will all want WC salaries, which the cap would not allow. So it indirectly causes the transfer prices to go down because teams will only have access to one Ronaldo type player. Demand for players like that goes down because of the inability to buy them, Supply would stay the same (or go down because some players who make that kind of money now would not make that kind of money and might not be considered WC anymore) and thus this means price will go down as well.

Perhaps what Platini has organized will work well also, only time will really tell.

[Fishdoll]

You really do seem to have it in for Platini, Kurt. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I think a cap would've been a good idea but I think the EU would've quashed it (labor rules). Even if the MUs and Scousers of this world have big fanbases, they also have crushing debts so that they must go far into the CL to make their loan payments especially if bailouts are now not going to be allowed to the extent that they have been (Chelsea's really going to have an issue). Inert are really going to be hosed.

[kurtsimonw]

Yeah, a salary cap wouldn't be accepted. I don't think it's something Platini would want either, that's the impression I get from him regarding his politics.

I wouldn't say I have it in for Platini, I just have zero time for FIFA/UEFA. It just so happens I don't agree with an awful lot he wants to do.

[Jack Sparrow]

I think even if the big clubs have 100% more revenue...they also have 100% more debts and wages to pay.

[kurtsimonw]

I think their revenue massively outweighs the debs they have to pay.

You do realise most teams in the EPL don't even make a profit BEFORE transfers? Whereas United and Chelsea have huge markets to sell into. Alot of clubs will literally have to sell every year just to break even. The EPL, at least, is going to become a CL monopoly, but one even more difficult to break into than usual.

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[Fishdoll]

Actually, Kurt, I've had a look at United's financial statements. They wouldn't have made a profit at all last season had they not sold Cristiano Ronaldo.

[kurtsimonw]

So France will host Euro 2016.

Didn't take Platini long, did it.

[Portman]

(IMG:http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0eUY2TN9Vocqo/610x.jpg)

Who would have thought...

[kurtsimonw]

Capello Index

I hope this isn't really something he created, because some of the ratings are terrible. I had a look at the England team for the World Cup and Defoe, Wright-Phillips and Gerrard were the top 3. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)


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Best goals from around the World 09-10

And seeing as I never see it in any amazing goal compilations or anything Ashley Young vs West Ham, most underrated goal from last season by a mile!

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Jul 17 2010, 05:29 PM

[Fishdoll]

I took a look at the Capello index thingy. Not sure what to make of it just yet. The statisticians at Bocconi did a lot of calculating of different kinds of things.

(X-Off!!!!! D'you know anything about it?)

[kurtsimonw]

So Blatter is a liar? Who knew. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Goal-line technology will not be on the agenda when football's law-makers meet in Wales later this week, contrary to indications by FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

The technical sub-committee of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) will meet in Cardiff on Wednesday, but as planned back in May, there will only be one item on the agenda and that will be the continuing experiment with additional assistant referees.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced during the World Cup finals that goal-line technology had to be discussed once again at the 'first opportunity' and indicated that would take place this month.
How can that not be a goal? Frank Lampard's effort for England against Germany at the World Cup was ruled out

However, it is not now expected to be on the agenda until a more formal meeting in October.

A FIFA spokesman said: 'The meeting this week is purely to ratify any requests that have come forward over the implementation of the assistant referees experiment, which was used last year in the Europa League.

'The first formal meeting where that discussion [goal-line technology] could take place is in October.'

Wednesday's meeting will instead concentrate on the member associations who have taken up the opportunity to use additional assistant referees after IFAB agreed in May to launch a two-year experiment to test the effectiveness of the initiative.

IFAB, which comprises representatives from FIFA and the four home nations, rejected the notion of goal-line technology in March on the grounds of cost and the possible disruption it would bring.

However, calls for the introduction of technology intensified after England's Frank Lampard was denied what would have been an equaliser in the World Cup second round clash with Germany when his shot rebounded off the underside of the crossbar and dropped over the line, but unseen by the match officials and was not given.

Mexico too suffered as they were dumped out of the competition by Argentina with the help of a blatantly offside Carlos Tevez goal.

Speaking in Johannesburg last month, Blatter said: 'It is obvious that after the experience so far in this World Cup, it would be a nonsense to not re-open the file of technology at the business meeting of the International FA Board in July.'

Sepp Blatter, ruining football since 1998.

[Fishdoll]

He said during the world cup that it wouldn't be on the agenda til the fall meeting, Kurt.

[kurtsimonw]

In an interview with Sky Sports he said it will be talked about in Wales, pointing out it'd be better to sort it out before the new season. Ban the loon from British soil.

[Fishdoll]

We get that you hate him, Kurt. Really.

[kurtsimonw]

It's not about hating him, it's about him making little (or no, in this case) attempt to improve the game of football.