I think this marquee player system of the ESL is a great idea. Like get your one player and pay them what you want. A million a season. A million a game. Like do what you want.
not sure why nrl doesn’t implement it. NRL is the premier league in the world yet we restrict the earning capacity of the top players. Fair enough there isn’t enough money or players to have no cap in place. But 1 marquee player who counts for 300-400k on the cap and the rest is do as you choose. Big fan of that system. And would eliminate some of the rorting. Gives teams like dogs a chance to flex their financial muscle instead of losing out bidding wars to teams that don’t operate under the cap system.
and with 16 marquee players you will actually spread the talent. Instead of having a handful of teams that circumvent the cap (through tpa).
NRL wake up.
not that any club could pay 4.5 million a season to a player. But I have no doubt Tedesco could get 2 million a year if a club has influential sponsors.
I also like the nba soft cap/hard cap and luxury tax system. If you want to go over it then you will pay for it.
the nrl has the worst system. And it is obviously rorted regularly. Funny no many other sports have such a farcical system and rorts.