Leody wrote:ChVint22 wrote:Well thats the whole point, yes. It would make it a fair playing field. You're just afraid it would effect Arsenal and you wouldn't want to see them go down. Of course nobody wants to see them go down or finish in the bottom half. But still, it would make it fair, do you not want to play fairly? Is that all you love football for, is for the winning? The way it stands now, if football keeps going on like it is, Arsenal will be in trouble. We don't have oil tycoons as owners, we earned our way to the top like it should be done, not have some gazillionaire come and make us who we are. Aren't you proud of that? And I'm sure the English folks in here would appreciate that, and so should all Arsenal fans.
Well, when you're 50 and sitting in your living room on a Saturday morning and can't watch Arsenal play because they're in the 1st division don't come crying to me.
No, it's not all about the winning. I like watching Arsenal play beautiful football with class players. You'd never see that again at this same level anywhere in the world if there were a salary cap. As much as I dislike Man U, Barca, Madrid and Milan... I can't deny the fact that they are entertaining to watch. You put in a salary cap and they have to scrap half their talent the quality will drop.
I would miss that. I would miss that very much.
Besides, you say you like the fact that we've achieved w/o spending big... Wouldn't you like it even more if we won while everybody else outspent us?
I really really don't like the idea because it will disperse the talent and you won't have teams that equal the quality of the big boys ever again and that's what I like to watch.
You would still see entertaining football, take the NFL for instance, its more entertaining than ever and is flourishing more than ever, talent wise and financially. With the way players are today, there is more talent than ever before. You would still have teams that are more succesful than others, because those are going to be the ones that know how to run a proper football team. Example: New England Patriots, they've been good for years. Maybe not 50 years, but for the past 8-9.