the NBA system of salary cap seems to work fine, to a point anyways - the weak teams are still normally weak, with the exception of those who get real lucky in the draft or make outstandingly good trades.

you will still end up with 'super' teams like the Heat and Lakers, but that usually mean having locked up all your $$ on the five starters, your bench is average at best.

there are disadvantages though, in the attempt to even the playing field you are unfair to teams who developed their own talent - i.e OKC will not be able to keep all their homegrown stars eventually.

but that system is also impossible to implement in footie. the NBA is a very closed system - rigid in its structure. There's the draft and it is essentially only a single country. The NBA does not have any real tangible interaction with other b-ball leagues from other countries.

Football spans the world, and although it is true that Selangor will probably never ever play against say Liverpool competitively, top teams from Europe play each other yearly. They cannot even agree on a single monetary policy , so do you really expect them to be able to agree on something so trivial (in the larger sense of things, and sorry Shankly, I'm an accountant after all ) as a unified football regime.

We can never educate scum about our history. Why even bother. They'll only trade insults at the end of every conversation.

Old man possibly afraid Red fans will taunt his team and demoralise them for the whole 90 mins when they meet us in Anfield hence the good gesture. Havent seen him giving a 2 foot about us all the time until now.