City, United, Villa against. Chelsea abstained.
Yeah, that tracks. Surprised Newcastle voted in favour
As much as I hate any clubs being owned by countries, Newcastle has been performing very well without excess spending. They have used great scouting, management, and coaching to get to where they are. Yes, they did start spending more on salaries, but they haven’t dumped a ton into the transfer market like other billionaire teams.
I agree, but I woulda figured some more ambition(?)
Although I always presumed that the PIF didn’t wanna rush success, just to sportswash by running the club sustainably(?)
I’m not happy with these words but I don’t have the right ones
All the players they have brought in since the takeover are established players mostly from other clubs competing in Europe, agree they haven’t tried to sign Mbappe or Lewandowski but they still spent far above their past and current table position and stature.
Am I missing something or is Villa the odd one out here?
Why would they vote against?
I believe they’re backed by a big American firm, they want to be able to spend what they want
Tory club innit
The main issue will simply be getting outcompeted in UEFA competition by a few continental clubs who can and will outspend them. If it’s a hard cap, and it’s set high enough that the big English cups will still go far in UCL, I doubt there will be any major blowback, and it might actually be helpful for competitive balance at the top of the Premier League.
American sport has many issues of its own, but it’s always interested me how the problems and solutions go in different directions based on the early history of Association football in England and baseball in the US.
Considering the level of debt that the big La Liga sides are in, I don’t think there’s much to worry about there. The same goes for Italy. The only real concern is France and that league isn’t competitive enough.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I guess the devil is in the details with the cap that gets set, but even if most them want some cap, can’t imagine the PL owners pulling in one direction hard enough to give it much teeth, especially, as you say, with financial turmoil in Spain and Italy and only a couple of oil-money clubs in France. Throw in something fairly close to actual reasonable governance in Germany, and you start to see why this passed now.
