CumbrianRam Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Suspicions that Manchester City might be stockpiling players in order to prevent them signing for rivals could lead to the Premier League reviving attempts to outlaw player loans. Digger can reveal that Richard Scudamore has twice made efforts to introduce rules preventing players from being loaned between top-flight clubs. The Premier League chief executive believes they are unnecessary since clubs' domestic-broadcast incomes, amounting to a minimum of £50m each from this season, mean there is plenty of cash to pay for outright transfers. The moves were overruled by both the wealthier and the less-rich clubs as restrictive to their attempts respectively to farm out and to host players. Yet with City's first-team squad now expanding to 38 players, there is evidence the mood is shifting. Last week Tottenham Hotspur's manager, Harry Redknapp, hinted that he thought City — whose wage offers have put players out of competitors' reach — were dictating which clubs their surplus-to-requirements players could play at. Redknapp predicted that Craig Bellamy would be prevented from playing at a club with Champions League pretensions. "I couldn't see them loaning him to someone like us," he said, before the Welshman signed for Cardiff City. Some Serie A clubs did stockpile players in the 90s but City consider themselves victims of circumstance: no one will match their players' wages. The 25-man squad limits being introduced next Tuesday may have some influence. But with no limit to the number of players clubs may loan out in any given season, there is nothing to prevent City – whose owner's spending was revealed here yesterday as having reached half a billion pounds – purchasing players who will never get a game for them. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/27/premier-league-ban-player-loans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Don't get me started on Bellamy, still can't believe we didn't sign him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Ram Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 would be interesting if they did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Don't understand how it would change what Man City are doing, they would just end up loaning players abroad or to the Championship. Just limit the total amount of players you can have registered at the club, job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Ram Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 yeah, i would prefer a spending cap of 100 million and a salary cap of 90,000 a week for each player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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