With all the talk about Man C's spending spree over the last couple of years being mainly about the transfer fee's and the rights and wrongs of the amount of money they are spending on players,for me the staggering statistic is the wage bill.

I dont begrudge City anything, although i do think they have over paid on most of those transfers but like ourselves a few years back it comes with the territory when clubs know you are wealthy they try thier luck. But rumours of Ibrahimovic being paid £500k per week and even Yoyo tupee getting £220k pw is just stupid.

It used to be all about the transfer fee did'nt it but now the cost of signing the players is nothing compared to the cost of paying the player, City have spent about £250m over the last 2yrs but are committed to a wage bill of over £500m over the next 5yrs.

I dont want to make this all about City, like i said i dont begrude them anything. We ourselves have had an astronomical wage bill over the last few years which the club quite rightly have tried to reduce and i know if you want the top players you have to pay the going rate but it looks like we have turned a corner in terms of being held to ransom by players when it comes to new contracts.

But lets take it further and have a look away from City and ourselves who because of our owners are exceptions to the rule seeing as we are currently debt free(because of said owners) so we are'nt crippling our clubs paying the wages. The top players at the top clubs earning big money is 1 thing,but £500k, £250k or even £150k are rediculous amounts of money. The knock on effect it has too down the league is dangerous. Also there are players earning fortunes for doing fcuk all, our own Winston Bogarde always springs to mind.

Mediocre players at mid-table clubs are earning 70k-80k grand a week. I just heard an stat from a hammer who said that Keiran Dyer is on £60kpw at West Ham, he has played 18 times in 3yrs which works out £520k per game and get this he has never played a full 90mins in fact his 70mins at the weekend was his longest.....starting to make Ibrahimovic deal sound cheap. We worked it out that he earns about £10-£15 for every second he's on the pitch, for a £45 match ticket my mate gets 3 seconds of Keiran Dyer, how can some players look themselves in the eye.

With clubs going to the wall in all 4 divisions, with almost every club in the country deep in debt including the very top clubs, with fans feeling more and more alienated from thier clubs and the players something has to be done and quick. Salary caps need to be introduced, not to punish big spending City, not to stop certain clubs from competing but for the good of the game and all who care about it.

Edited August 24, 201015 yr by c3blu

i think if there was a wage cap the talent would be spread out more even and have a play as you pay plan.

i think if there was a wage cap the talent would be spread out more even and have a play as you pay plan.

City's wage bill won't be too high this year, I've heard they're on trophy-related bonuses :D

City's wage bill won't be too high this year, I've heard they're on trophy-related bonuses :D

With regard to clubs going to the wall, in all honestly, I think it's more to do with the bad management of football clubs, living beyond their means. (Leeds/Cardiff - Risdale) (West Ham/Portsmouth/Southampton - Redknapp/Storey)

Kieron Dyer is doing exactly the same as Winston, but at a club in financial trouble. Chelsea could afford to have him rotting in the reserves, although we'd have rather got rid of him, but West Ham cannot get rid of Dyer (a) because he's always injured, (B) no-one wants him because he's past-it © he's not going to get those wages anywhere else.

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Still, I'm sure they all said the same when Roman came along, only we had won a few trophies before he arrived under Gullit and Vialli. City have been waiting 25 years, and I don't see Mancini quite in the same way Jose moulded us into Champions, he is more like Raneiri, only more defensive.

They have money to burn at the moment, but if they don't deliver, like last season, it could be quite interesting.

City have been waiting 35 yrs not 25, a pay as you play deal sounds or something like it ideal......it will certainly make players pull there fingers out.