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Petition for an independent football regulator

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  • Hex
    Hex Posts: 1,900
    Perhaps a way to raise money from the top for the benefit of lower down is to have a tax or player levy based on gross income.  It would recognise that most players benefitted from the academy and pyramid structure so paying towards it would be fair.  It would also recognise the effect that the apparently impossible to control obscene player wages has on the ‘game’ and the inability for them to be controlled in any other legal manner.  Perhaps agents could be similarly controlled.  A sliding scale eg 0% for National League rising to 10% in the EPL would make sense.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,193
    Hex said:
    Perhaps a way to raise money from the top for the benefit of lower down is to have a tax or player levy based on gross income.  It would recognise that most players benefitted from the academy and pyramid structure so paying towards it would be fair.  It would also recognise the effect that the apparently impossible to control obscene player wages has on the ‘game’ and the inability for them to be controlled in any other legal manner.  Perhaps agents could be similarly controlled.  A sliding scale eg 0% for National League rising to 10% in the EPL would make sense.
    I like that idea. You should perhaps run it past the Price of Football guys.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,744
    Hex said:
    Perhaps a way to raise money from the top for the benefit of lower down is to have a tax or player levy based on gross income.  It would recognise that most players benefitted from the academy and pyramid structure so paying towards it would be fair.  It would also recognise the effect that the apparently impossible to control obscene player wages has on the ‘game’ and the inability for them to be controlled in any other legal manner.  Perhaps agents could be similarly controlled.  A sliding scale eg 0% for National League rising to 10% in the EPL would make sense.
    Things like this have been suggested multiple times but then the PL wave an increased amount of money as a solidarity payment right now and then the EFL take it very politely and shut up until the deal needs renewal 
  • Pico
    Pico Posts: 1,030
    "Change is coming" - Chair of Independent Football Regulator David Kogan interviewed by Henry Winter:

    https://www.castrust.org/2025/10/change-is-coming-says-regulator/
  • Hex
    Hex Posts: 1,900
    fenaddick said:
    Hex said:
    Perhaps a way to raise money from the top for the benefit of lower down is to have a tax or player levy based on gross income.  It would recognise that most players benefitted from the academy and pyramid structure so paying towards it would be fair.  It would also recognise the effect that the apparently impossible to control obscene player wages has on the ‘game’ and the inability for them to be controlled in any other legal manner.  Perhaps agents could be similarly controlled.  A sliding scale eg 0% for National League rising to 10% in the EPL would make sense.
    Things like this have been suggested multiple times but then the PL wave an increased amount of money as a solidarity payment right now and then the EFL take it very politely and shut up until the deal needs renewal 
     Which is where the regulator can step in and make his name.

  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,744
    Hex said:
    fenaddick said:
    Hex said:
    Perhaps a way to raise money from the top for the benefit of lower down is to have a tax or player levy based on gross income.  It would recognise that most players benefitted from the academy and pyramid structure so paying towards it would be fair.  It would also recognise the effect that the apparently impossible to control obscene player wages has on the ‘game’ and the inability for them to be controlled in any other legal manner.  Perhaps agents could be similarly controlled.  A sliding scale eg 0% for National League rising to 10% in the EPL would make sense.
    Things like this have been suggested multiple times but then the PL wave an increased amount of money as a solidarity payment right now and then the EFL take it very politely and shut up until the deal needs renewal 
     Which is where the regulator can step in and make his name.

    Possibly, not sure whether it would fit into his remit or not. Hopefully it would 

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