You have wage caps but players in US based sports are still the best paid?

[Diaby does Gallas]

To my knowledge sports stars in US based sports especially the NBA are the highest paid sports stars in the world even though you have wage caps in place.

 

Not being funny or anything, but football or Soccer is a much bigger sports world wide and has many times more people watching the any of the American based sports, but the wages paid falls short of the wages of their American counter parts.

 

The only reason I can think that American sports stars get paid more is because in the USA you have a draft and as such you aren't having to spend huge amounts of money buying players, so as such you can afford to pay your sports stars much more.

 

Is this correct that you pay more in wages as you have a draft, and would you rather have a draft system which seems to make your sports a more even playing field or would you rather have a Football / soccer system where you can buy who you want providing the player want to go there, and you can afford him.

 

PS I have been watching the NBA on ESPN in the UK, and I do really enjoy it, what NBA team is from Boston, and are they any good?

 

Regards

 

AF

[yeszir]

First of all, Google will get you a fast answer if you want to find out what the NBA team from Boston is.

 

Second of all, it isn't a factor of how many people follow the sport. Team and league revenues are probably the biggest factor in wages.

 

Man U had team revenue of $310 million in 2006 according to Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/34/biz_07soccer_Manchester-United_340001.html. The Yankees had revenue of $441 million http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/33/baseball-valuations-10_New-York-Yankees_334613.html and the sox had revenues of $244 million (now surely higher) http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/33/baseball-valuations-10_Boston-Red-Sox_330700.html.

 

Baseball and football have been ruthlessly monetized and, all things considered, salaries aren't that much higher. The average english premiere salary is 1.8 million dollars. MLB's average salary is 3 million. We still have free agency, I don't think the draft has anything to do with it.

[Diaby does Gallas]

Surely to god though, if you was having to buy your baseball players from other clubs then the mean wage of the players would go down by a fair amount.

 

I do accept though that having high wages doesn't neceseraly mean you will have a better team, just look at Portsmouth in the EPl, they hugely over paid their players to the point they went bankrupt, and still got relegated.

 

As for the sports model you have in the US where as you have no promotion and no relegation and you get players from a draft, which means there isn't the competition that you get in European football, would you rather stay with your current system or change it to the one we have?

 

 

Just seen it is the Boston Celitcs that are your local team, I thought they were a NY team a long with the Knicks.

[Will617]

Baseball doesn't have a wage cap, whereas in football and basketball players won't be making that much money.

The fact that you have to buy players definitely affects the price too. If there is a player that makes 300,000 pounds a week, that's about 15-16 million pounds a year, or pretty close to $25 million. So it's not exactly that far off.

[Diaby does Gallas]

Baseball doesn't have a wage cap, whereas in football and basketball players won't be making that much money.

The fact that you have to buy players definitely affects the price too. If there is a player that makes 300,000 pounds a week, that's about 15-16 million pounds a year, or pretty close to $25 million. So it's not exactly that far off.

 

?300,000 per week isnt paid by any team for any player, I think C Ronaldo at Real Madridis on about ?250,000 but the average top player in the prem is on about ?150,000. They also have a lot of their tax paid for by the club so you may actually be correct when you say ?300K per week.

 

thing is though Football as a business model in Europe is a bit of a dodgy business, you may have noticed that the earnings for the football teams in Europe was released last week. And while teams like Real Madrid brought in ?350 million, they will probably be making a loss, or very nearly a loss.

 

There are new rules being brought in though called financial fair play, which will mean teams cannot spend more than they earn.

[Will617]

thing is though Football as a business model in Europe is a bit of a dodgy business, you may have noticed that the earnings for the football teams in Europe was released last week. And while teams like Real Madrid brought in ?350 million, they will probably be making a loss, or very nearly a loss.

 

There are new rules being brought in though called financial fair play, which will mean teams cannot spend more than they earn.

 

It's a joke to call some of the soccer clubs "businesses". The only big club that seems to be making money is Arsenal; meanwhile, clubs like Barca need to take out more loans, and then go out and buy David Villa (to replace Ibra, who they spent like 60 million euros total to get in the first place).

FIFA better enforce the fair play rules when they come into effect. Some teams would not be anywhere near competitive if they weren't running huge losses (like, Chelsea or Man City).

[jacksonianmarch]

In baseball, there is one big fish that then forces a market correction upward. The Yankees are the biggest fish, their revenues are massive and since there is no salary cap, they can expand above and beyond inflation on a year to year basis. Other clubs needing to match the Yankees has caused a major increase in yearly salaries. This is why baseball players are so expensive

[Diaby does Gallas]

It's a joke to call some of the soccer clubs "businesses". The only big club that seems to be making money is Arsenal; meanwhile, clubs like Barca need to take out more loans, and then go out and buy David Villa (to replace Ibra, who they spent like 60 million euros total to get in the first place).

FIFA better enforce the fair play rules when they come into effect. Some teams would not be anywhere near competitive if they weren't running huge losses (like, Chelsea or Man City).

 

There has been rumours doing the rounds that clubs will find a way around the new fair play rules, and it is true that the rules aren't as stringent as UEFA wanted them to be. The clubs are very powerfull and they twisted the arms of UEFA that got them fair play rules that were still more favorable to them.

 

The thing is though FSG bought LFC on the back of financial fair play comming in, so FSG will be prepared to take legal action against any clubs that aren't playing ball.