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<blockquote data-quote="Cruz_del_Sur" data-source="post: 807759" data-attributes="member: 55747"><p>Two points about this comparison: </p><p></p><p>1) The comparison is not really fair. One of the most popular sport in the planet, where salaries are astronomical in places like Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Moscow or Beijing. That is not the case with Rugby league. The options a player has are very limited (relative wise). A top player (say a starter in his national team) has more options (and therefore bargaining power) in football than in rugby.</p><p>In economic terms: the job market for a football player is the world, while for Rugby league is a handful of countries, at best. </p><p></p><p>2) Let me give you another example of what the salary cap can end up causing. </p><p></p><p>Eredivisie (Dutch top football league). Until 10 years ago, they were not the best league around but a well respected one. Their teams could give the best from other leagues a run for their money. Top teams start implementing salary caps (Ajax, PSV, etc.). Now you have players leaving earlier and the overall level of the league has dropped, a lot. The dutch teams that qualify to the champions league now are happy if they make it out of the group stages while years ago they were fighting for the final. </p><p></p><p>So yes, a few less popular teams have managed to squeeze a win every 10 years or so, but at the expense of the top dutch players leaving because they can earn more money elsewhere. They ended up having a league that is a tad fairer but much, much worse in terms of quality. </p><p></p><p>There is an amount of money, lets call it premium (amount of money on on top of what they could earn at home) for which players will chose playing outside of their home country. If you do not keep up with what they are being offered from other leagues, sooner or later players will leave. A temporary way out would be to make SR more popular by expanding but that comes at a cost (more teams, probably worse, tighter schedule, more travelling, etc.). </p><p></p><p>I would LOVE for things to work the way you describe. I sincerely believe they do not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cruz_del_Sur, post: 807759, member: 55747"] Two points about this comparison: 1) The comparison is not really fair. One of the most popular sport in the planet, where salaries are astronomical in places like Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Moscow or Beijing. That is not the case with Rugby league. The options a player has are very limited (relative wise). A top player (say a starter in his national team) has more options (and therefore bargaining power) in football than in rugby. In economic terms: the job market for a football player is the world, while for Rugby league is a handful of countries, at best. 2) Let me give you another example of what the salary cap can end up causing. Eredivisie (Dutch top football league). Until 10 years ago, they were not the best league around but a well respected one. Their teams could give the best from other leagues a run for their money. Top teams start implementing salary caps (Ajax, PSV, etc.). Now you have players leaving earlier and the overall level of the league has dropped, a lot. The dutch teams that qualify to the champions league now are happy if they make it out of the group stages while years ago they were fighting for the final. So yes, a few less popular teams have managed to squeeze a win every 10 years or so, but at the expense of the top dutch players leaving because they can earn more money elsewhere. They ended up having a league that is a tad fairer but much, much worse in terms of quality. There is an amount of money, lets call it premium (amount of money on on top of what they could earn at home) for which players will chose playing outside of their home country. If you do not keep up with what they are being offered from other leagues, sooner or later players will leave. A temporary way out would be to make SR more popular by expanding but that comes at a cost (more teams, probably worse, tighter schedule, more travelling, etc.). I would LOVE for things to work the way you describe. I sincerely believe they do not. [/QUOTE]
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