I understand your points and all I can say is we will see next season if the increased salaries will have the impact that they should: not just on the transfer market but also on profits.
This is what I expect: players with 500K+ salary should be relatively plentiful and affordable on the transfer market next season. Any division I team will be able to pick one of these guys up with relatively low up front costs. However, given that the break even point, salary wise, for a division I team is somewhere between 650K-800K in salaries, getting one of those players pretty much means you are either A) bleeding red or
![B)](/images/conf/emoticons/smug.png)
have very little talent to surround him with.
Or take my team as an example. I currently make a 350-400K profit per week. Next season I expect that will come down to the neighbourhood of 275K, without even making a significant improvement to my team (besides training). Then again, I also want to add a star player or two to my team. If I am not careful, I could be just barely breaking even. And I do not even expect to add a player with a salary of more than 125K.
Finally - if a team is able to coast in his division and make nice profits without threat of demotion, that's a failure of the managers who are not pushing him plus a compliment to his astute financial abilities. It is not a failure of the economic system.
Last edited by HeadPaperPusher at 2/22/2010 2:58:26 PM
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