Leagues 1 and 2 salary cap proposed - plus B-Teams

Quoted from ginnywings

Rangers proposing B teams in Scotland, already with backing from Celtic. They are using the "helping vulnerable teams" reasoning to put this idea forward, offering financial incentives.

I fear something similar will appear in England soon enough.

I find it disgraceful that the big clubs are trying this on and exploiting the current situation.

As far as I am concerned, there is no such thing as a Premier League club. I tried to explain this, and the whole idea of promotion and relegation, to an American once, as she was shocked that i did not support “a Premier League team”. There is no such thing - it just so happens that my team, along with 70 others, has the goal of getting there one day.

People forget that Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City have spent time out of the top flight. What a shame that money has probably guaranteed this may never happen again.

This has been my fear all along. This current climate is certainly gonna be seen as an opportunity to push this agenda once more.

Only 6 teams have spent every season in the premier league. The reason our league system works is because of promotion/relegation. I guess you could argue that if it were like the NFL and unless you go bankrupt there is no promotion, that could stop teams like Derby etc spending as much as top flight clubs to constantly try and get there...but then that just makes it boring I guess.

Aside from a few clubs, we already have a large amount of teams that are unsustainable and live on a financial knife edge, including tip fight teams. I’m not sure having a B team makes them anymore sustainable. Perhaps a simpler way is to look at how many players can be signed for any one club. This may mean less people receive professional contracts but so be it.

It’s bizarre, the whole B team thing just doesn’t make any sense. They’ve had them on the continent for years but that doesn’t mean it’s improved the game or anything like that. A quick google search indicates that Barcelona B average 1600 for home games, as opposed to the actual Barcelona team who average 70’000 plus...so there’s clearly little interest and it’s not as if they’re picking up fans that can’t get tickets. Is that what the folk here are expecting? It’s not like Messi goes to play for them when he’s coming back from injury, they’re an actual team in a league, not a reserve team.

I just can’t see the reason to add even more teams to an already compact and large pyramid with professional clubs, many with financial difficulties or in large debt.

Naturally the EFL will think it’s a financial opportunity, clubs will think it’ll attract more fans and so forth. As our own club initially thought...then nobody turned up or was arsed they changed their tune.

Some people might argue different but I just can’t see any reason for the implementation of B teams ever. They’d actually do better residing the profile of the under 23s premier league if they’re that arsed.

The link to the story.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52941423

If all the Premiership teams wanted a 'B' team, where would they all go? In a new League 3 or replace current League 2 teams.

If they were to replace current League 2 teams who on here would go, as it would no longer be 'my team' I wouldn't bother going and if it gets the same reaction as the EFL Trophy then I doubt many would go.

I’ve said before on another thread on this subject ( and got a load of red x’s !! ) that if the EFL voted to let B teams in L2 I wouldn’t go to another game . End of .

I get the impression that our new chairman is sensible enough not to vote in favour of this btw .

Do not need a salary cap, just more sever punishment for any team that cannot pay its way.
if a club like Macclesfield cannot pay their players, it's because they are spending above their means, end of. If they can face expulsion for not being able to pay their players, then they would think twice about overspending. That's how business works, so why noy football.

B teams would not interest me and so I would not continue with a season ticket and miss the B team games. I fear that a lot would feel like this as well and so not a healthy position.
The salary cap seems to make sense now. Utm

Still dont think  B teams will ever happen, well i hope not anyway.  Would destroy the fabric of the game at lower league level.

B teams would be the end of English football as we know it and would end lots of fans involvement. I don't think even league 2 club chairmen would be stupid enough to vote for something that is so counterproductive. Lots of teams would then find themselves expelled from the league to make room for them for a start