The top 4 race just got more serious. I guess it's mostly between Leicester, United and Chelsea.

Leicester vs United on last matchday could be the decider, although Leicester's recent form has been pretty underwhelming.

smr

Germany4808 Posts

July 13 2020 15:21 GMT

#3944

I could see both Wolves and Sheffield pass Leicester. It's tight but both have okay fixtures, Leicester are terrible atm. United going to be 3rd, Chelsea 4th. Both Spurs and Arsenal miss Top7.

Liquid`Drone

Norway28675 Posts

July 13 2020 15:33 GMT

#3945

Leicester has sheffield united, tottenham and then united left
united has southampton, crystal palace, west ham and leicester left
chelsea has norwich, liverpool and wolverhampton left

imo judging by post covid-performance this gives something like 10-12 expected points for united, 4-6 for chelsea and 2-3 for leicester. Leicester's only wins the past 10 matches are against Aston Villa (whom are 1-2-7 previous 10) and Crystal Palace (1-0-5 post covid). Chelsea has been decent after the break, but aside from the game against Norwich are up against fierce competition.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25502 Posts

July 13 2020 16:18 GMT

#3946

Leicester are dropping like a stone and I have no idea why that is the case. I’d like them to cling on but on current form it doesn’t look particularly likely.

Shame about today’s court ruling. City aside it does set a rather worrying precedent.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts

July 13 2020 17:35 GMT

#3947

FFP should never have been made, its a silly system which doesn't change anything. The rich teams still have a HUGE advantage as they have the income to spend no matter what anyway.

The way to fix football is to add a salary cap, it is the simplest and fairest way. Max wage for 11 players is 100k a week then 5 players 80k and below etc etc (not these exact but you get where im going) and it fixes it there and then. Transfer fees can be huge if they want but you can't stack your squad full of the best players because they will go and earn max money at another club fine still. Would make the champions league stupidly competitive overnight.

sharkie

Austria18420 Posts

July 13 2020 17:40 GMT

#3948

But then teams like Chelsea would never be able to land players like werner or pulisic? :o

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts

July 13 2020 17:41 GMT

#3949

Yeah sure we would when teams like Liverpool and co are stacked with players they think are worthy of the highest salaries over them. Same way Bayern wouldn't be able to swallow up everyone in the Bundesliga and make it a one horse race, would fix that. Same way it would stop the teams across Europe being picking pools for England and Real/Barca.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25502 Posts

July 13 2020 18:31 GMT

#3950

I would absolutely favour some kind of Europe-wide salary cap. Does seem exceedingly unlikely though, I can imagine it coming in place if there ever is this mooted European Super League though.

Acrofales

Spain18011 Posts

July 13 2020 18:41 GMT

#3951

I am all for a salary cap, but isn't the main reason it doesn't exist yet that European labour law doesn't allow that type of thing?

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts

July 13 2020 18:54 GMT

#3952

Oh right, thats a shame if the labour law is one of the main stumbling blocks, it is for me the only way to make it all fair.

Oh well, come on Danny Ings help me out!

WombaT

Northern Ireland25502 Posts

July 13 2020 19:04 GMT

#3953

On July 14 2020 03:41 Acrofales wrote:
I am all for a salary cap, but isn't the main reason it doesn't exist yet that European labour law doesn't allow that type of thing?

The English rugby union league has a salary cap of some kind and this preceded Brexit etc.

I’m not sure if it is a European labour law issue so much as no league wants to implement one and see its top talent migrate to other top leagues.

I guess having to be proven to be solvent to play within a competition is legal, and that could be tied to salaries.

On the other hand tying salary caps to revenue doesn’t really do anything to even the playing field as the existing big boys have a lot more to play with as it is.