sorry to intrude, as an outsider, how would it go introducing a salary cap on player payments? used to regularly follow English soccer years ago, but now have no interest. seems to be same 4 or 5 clubs every year doing well[ apart from Leicester, now money's torn them apart]. success is bought. some player payments are obnoxious. it no longer seems a sport. not just England, but every major soccer comp. the world over. unless club is in top 2 -3 richest, got no hope. i'm aussie, so what I think is inconsequential , in our footy comp, even bottom side has a hope, maybe not this year  but soon. more level playing field due to salary cap. anyway,, i'm not putting down your game, but to me  the comp standings are boring.  cheers

A great idea. But as long as SKY, BT and other stupid companies throw billions at the PL agents will ask for more and more until it goes bang.

I love football but I do agree it is out of hand. Top clubs make it impossible for anyone else to improve past a certain point. As soon as a team develops or trains a player to a decent level in comes one of the top 4-5 richest clubs in the country and buys them. Team goes back to square one but the directors get a nice little bonus for the year. I don't know if there is a way to end that at this point

A lot of other sports are the same, and teams or franchises seem to be based around the richest cities....Munich, Paris, Madrid, Rome, London....only one PL team in the North East and languishing in 18th...none in Birmingham but Arsenal, Spurs, Fulham and Chelsea in London.

Are we talking about every club in a league having the same annual wage budget?  Or just putting a limit on the amount one player can earn?

Think we're well past the point where we could have any sort of level playing field.  How do you even reverse-engineer things to a point where Man Utd are paying the same wages as Watford?

I do think, though, that if Sanchez, Pogba and the lads could somehow scrape by on £150k a week, and we all got Sky and BT a bit cheaper; that'd be ace.

I realise it's gone too far to stop. it won't happen, but yes to both questions scotty.  if there was a cap of ,say, $50 million each club, chose to pay 2 players $10 mill each, $30 mill left for other players. my dollar quotes are prob way out, got no idea what clubs pay, only an example. must be a lot of clubs fallen by wayside cos can't afford wages. used to be similar with footy in oz til salary cap introduced, same 3-4 clubs dominated cos they spent big.     anyway-- good luck.   'the rich get richer, the poor get the picture, success never hits when you're down so low'

I honestly wouldn't even know where to begin putting in changes to bring the salary and transfers in line. I suppose it could be a reward for team performance. So for example, every team has a maximum wage budget depending on the league they play in. This is increased for the current season by last seasons final position (eg: 1st place have maximum budget plus £2.4m pa, 20th place have maximum budget plus £0.12m pa).

A reason to win and to want to keep winning

fair point jamez. guess it would be impossible to implement in brit soccer, in aussie rules and also usa gridiron, there is a draft system. all new players are given a ranking on potential- mostly young kids, others leaving clubs,- bottom side gets 1st pick of any player, usually no.1, 2nd last gets 2nd pick...…. top side get 18th pick. then start again . course there are deals, pick trades  etc. so top side doesn't get pick of the crop every year. seems fair

The problem with that is a lot of brand loyalty can be built up with your teams players, particularly the good ones. Players that stay for long periods become club legends, forcing a reshuffle would change a lot of the culture surrounding that