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    Platini, the anti-Real: "New rules for transfers' campaigns"

    New rules: that's Michel Platini's promise to try to embank richest club's hegemony.

    "Personally, I don't understand how one can spend 90 mln euros for a single player; it's something annoying" - says UEFA's President, who recently appealed clubs for "financial fair play"

    "We're going to do something;we're going to work on it. It will take some time, maybe two or three years. But I want to fix new rules"

    The idea is to establish a salary cap and a limit for transfers' campaigns. These days in Vilnius that has been appreciated by UEFA's executive management, and measures may be tabled already in the meeting in September at Nyon.

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    Platini is not against english teams.
    He 's got his own conception of football, more democratic than anyone else, and still close to everyone's feeling about football.
    He may be right or wrong, but what he does, he does to follow his ideals:
    they are to promote played football in the best possible way; promoting it in every possible place of Europe. Promoting with respect for everyone and everything
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    President of the -zuco- fan club PeeJay's Avatar
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    Salary caps make no sense whatsoever. TV companies buy the rights
    to show matches and companies buy the rights to show ads during the
    matches. If a companies are willing to spend millions of pounds to show
    adverts and TV companies are willing to spend billions of pounds for TV
    rights then where will that money end up? If you put a salary cap and
    a a transfer fee/number of players limit then teams will just accumulate
    money which will finish somewhere else (i.e. club owners/agents/players
    via signing on fees/so on). If you want to limit the money in the game
    limit the TV contracts and amount of merchandise a team can sell, and
    buy a Karl Marx t-shirt while you're at it.

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    hmmm... a bit late Michel.... you c**k jockey!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeeJay View Post
    Salary caps make no sense whatsoever. TV companies buy the rights
    to show matches and companies buy the rights to show ads during the
    matches. If a companies are willing to spend millions of pounds to show
    adverts and TV companies are willing to spend billions of pounds for TV
    rights then where will that money end up? If you put a salary cap and
    a a transfer fee/number of players limit then teams will just accumulate
    money which will finish somewhere else (i.e. club owners/agents/players
    via signing on fees/so on). If you want to limit the money in the game
    limit the TV contracts and amount of merchandise a team can sell, and
    buy a Karl Marx t-shirt while you're at it.
    You can do thousands of things:

    i.e., imposing to national federations and clubs to invest in structures and politics for youngs
    Imposing a less price for T-shirt that should cost 15 € and not 70 ...

    .. go on ..
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    Something needs to be done about it so at least Platini is getting the finger out for a change.
    Usually don't agree with many of the things he says and does but in this case it's for the greater good of football. It's fair play.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ejuventus View Post
    You can do thousands of things:

    i.e., imposing to national federation and clubs to invest in structures and politics for youngs
    No you can't.

    ejuventus, which part of Rome are you from, anyway?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ejuventus View Post
    You can do thousands of things:

    i.e., imposing to national federations and clubs to invest in structures and politics for youngs
    Imposing a less price for T-shirt that should cost 15 € and not 70 ...

    .. go on ..
    National governments can't regulate prices, how do you expect sports
    governing bodies to do so? The prices are in the hands of the technical
    sponsors and not the clubs, not to mention that the policy of regulating
    prices would be the biggest threat to Capitalism since the Soviet Union.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeeJay View Post
    National governments can't regulate prices, how do you expect sports
    governing bodies to do so? The prices are in the hands of the technical
    sponsors and not the clubs, not to mention that the policy of regulating
    prices would be the biggest threat to Capitalism since the Soviet Union.
    It's not national governments to be supposed to regulate prices:
    UEFA is a free confederation... they can say: who want to take part to our competitions must have an original T-shirt at that price

    Who doesn't want, it's free to go away: that's freedom, the opposite of Soviet Union

    BTW: I'm from south part of Rome, via Appia

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    Quote Originally Posted by ejuventus View Post
    It's not national governments to be supposed to regulate prices:
    UEFA is a free confederation... they can say: who want to take part to our competitions must have an original T-shirt at that price

    Who doesn't want, it's free to go away: that's freedom, the opposite of Soviet Union

    BTW: I'm from south part of Rome, via Appia
    But clubs don't own the rights to change their t-shirt prices, technical sponsors
    do and asking clubs to alter the prices of their merchandise to avoid Economic
    supremacy sounds pretty Communist to me.

    Anyway, Appia? Pretty far from where I used to live.

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    i hate this guy really anyone could do a better job than him he hates england and now is trying to get champions league finals played on a Saturday

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    What I want to know, without being bias, is, would we feel the same way about what Platini said if it was us, not Madrid who went out and spent all that money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .M' View Post
    i hate this guy really anyone could do a better job than him he hates england and now is trying to get champions league finals played on a Saturday
    That's because of the world cup next year

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    Relax folks.

    I don't think he could change much.

    But his ideal and principles are worth thinking about. As ejuventus says, Platini could be right or he could be wrong, but if you put a cap on salaries and maybe even transfers, you would improve the odds of breaking a certain club's domination in a competition.

    It would be a more level playing field.

    clubs would have to rely more on their academies and buy from lower leagues. It might not enable galacticos-style projects, but I think it would be more in the spirit of football.

    If you think about it, it would help clubs like man Utd.

    We're already establiched, so the top players would want to play for us and without the lure of more cash elsewhere, they might choose us becuase of our history and stature.

    Also, with the same income, we would have less expenditure and could pay off our debts sooner.

    As I said, it won't happen, but it's worth thinking about.

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    He's still way better than Sepp Blatter, who recently said that he thinks that R.Madrid's spending are allright, but EPL spending is bad for the game. Class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nigelchin View Post
    He's still way better than Sepp Blatter, who recently said that he thinks that R.Madrid's spending are allright, but EPL spending is bad for the game. Class.
    is Platini who said Realmadrid a project City a disgrace

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