The salary cap idea could be done in a few ways, as you guys have pointed out though it would need to be Europe wide as UEFA have proposed in the Independent European review 2006. the ideas for salary caps I'm mulling on are: 1) Hard Cap a la NFL where you take the average revenue of clubs and say no club can spend more than 60% of this number. However this means the biggest clubs spend less than 60% and the smallest clubs over 70%, still stretching the smaller clubs 2) 60% of revenue of your club - however this means that the best players will still go to the biggest clubs 3) Salary Tax - set a maximum salary and fine clubs who go over it. sure, chelsea would still spend more but the money fined could go back to small clubs or beused in grassrooots programmes I think a key thing is that slary caps won't work independently, they need to be accompanied by revenue sharing at the least. What do you think?

there's an interesting article in the Guardian today about sharing money more equally if you're interested: http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/sto...1850873,00.html good timing for my project

thanks for your replies, really appreciate your help. my project is analysing the Premier League busines model. One question I'm trying to answer is can the competitive balance be improved. Before that I need to answer is whether it needs changing, hence my post below, i.e. to find out if fans in general want more balanced competition. The second question is what could be changed, and I'm looking at the NFL for ideas. Currently the main ideas I'm debating are: - limit salary to 60% of revenue. Astoundingly only Chelsea and fulham have more than 60% - give TV money equally. Let the bottom team get as much as Chelsea for TV rights. Currently the top team gets the most money, the bottomn team the least. - Away end revenue. Right now the home team keeps all the money, so if Blackburn have 8000 people in Old Trafford, all the money goes to United

Hi, I am a student and I'm doing a project on the Premier League. As part of the project I'm trying to put together how fans feel about the game. So my question to you is: Do you think the Premiership is becoming boring? Are you put off watching league games because of its perceived lack of competition, with the same top 4 every year?