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Originally posted by Havak
By the way it’s very clear someone is bank rolling Perpignan. Still there is huge pressure building on French clubs to conform to the salary caps everyone else use and I’m sure ERC ltd will make them comply in time.
By the way it’s very clear someone is bank rolling Perpignan. Still there is huge pressure building on French clubs to conform to the salary caps everyone else use and I’m sure ERC ltd will make them comply in time.
About the Salary Caps and the difference between England in France I am a bit surprised about the critics. Some of the best french players crossed the Channel to play in England and now that English players are crossing it the other way the shepherd is suddenly shouting the wolf is coming.
For a few years, the budgets and the salaries of the English clubs went mad as if we were in the middle of a nuclear escalation race. The expenses and budgets of the clubs reached unknown heights without the sponsors following the rythm. As in real life, the conflict had to stop someday and the warring factions are today exhausted (read pennyless).
In the meantime, the budgets of the French clubs grew at a fair but steady rythm. Don't forget that Rugby Union is almost a regional sport in France that is mainly played in Southern France (see the list of the Top16 clubs) and that the audience is higher in England than in France and that the English Rugby is potentially able to generate more money, the English clubs will thus recover quickly provided they reduce their expenses to reasonable proportions. IMO again, the situation between England and France is becoming more or less equal IMO.
Here is the map of the French Top16 clubs (adding the locations of the Pro D2 clubs - second division - would be even more eloquent):
[EDIT]Football Club de Greboble should be read Football Club de Grenoble[/EDIT]
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Great expression. I can't even think of an equivalent.
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