Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

Surely the big thing that would collapse would be player salaries. Luton would have a stadium that would host football games and someone would need to market if properly to maximise revenue. I full stadium is a full stadium; I don’t need to pay 8x the price because carlos kickaball earns £2.5k per week (£125k pa) or 20k per week (£1m pa). Other events would take place in and around the stadium just as they are now.

We’ve got third division footballers earning in excess of a million pounds a year. That’s preposterous. And for all the “short career” thing that justifies is; bullshit. If you don’t like it, get a job in an office or in a trade now then and can the footballing. I’m sure 33-36 year olds can start a new career and do regularly.

The money goes to players, agents and swills around clubs with over inflated transfer fees. Sometimes clubs are robbed by unscrupulous owners. Yeh only thing that would come of bursting the balloon in the medium terms is people would get paid something more aligned to the real world and clubs would be at a lower risk of getting fleeced. Esp if you can protect the land they sit on, shouldn’t be too difficult for govt to do that.