24-10-2016, 20:55
(24-10-2016, 20:17)Salopbaggie Wrote: We will never solve the current situation in football as long as money talks and subsequently the richest teams get all the best players. How to change it, I do not have a clue. Possibly the Americans have it someway right with the draft system, which is far easier to implement when the vast majority of players all come from or study in the same country. It may have some benefit in making teams a little more even, even if it only applied, as I suspect it would to UK based players.
For those unfamiliar with the way the draft works here is a link which explains the basics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sp...014105.stm or if you fancy a bit more relaxation with your news, the movie Draft Day starring Kevin Costner, I am told is pretty much the way things work.
The US draft ststem in sport is something I see get mentioned with English football every so often but there seems to be two main reasons why it can't currently work in England.
First is over here every player in the draft has come up through the school, then college (University) system, so has no affiliation with any of the professional teams. There is no real academy system at the pro level, its all done by the colleges. This is completely opposite to our system where all the younger players are snapped up by the academies at the clubs themselves, so the clubs own the rights to these players. This would render a draft useless or it would destroy the academy system if there was no way even the top clubs could make their own decisions on who they keep and who they don't.
Secondly, the fact that there is no relegation or promotion from any of the major leagues over here means the system of what order players are picked is determined by the finishing record the previous season, where the worst team gets to pick first and the best team picks last in each round of picks. This is not a compatible system where we have different divisions with vast differences in quality of player simply because technically the team finishing bottom of the 4th division would get to pick the best players first, when the best young players are capable of playing at a higher level.