Come on! This is getting ridiculous, just how much does one person need? I don't begrudge any person a right to earn a good wage but how do you even go about spending £100,000 a week?!!! The average fan probably earns less in a year than most premiership players make a week.

Maybe footballers should have performance related pay with a maximum of £20k a week salary but with bigger bonuses for each win or away draw they play in.

Also how about a club lottery where at each home game the home teams' average weekly wage is awarded to a supporter (drawn out of a hat) who has BOUGHT a ticket to see that particular game. This could be a life changing amount for most fans.

Football needs to start giving back to the fans or it will lose them...

David Birch, Lincoln, UK

Here in Australia a salary cap in Australian Rules Football was implemented about 20 years ago. Prior to that there were a handful of powerful income rich clubs who could afford to spend on players and as a result enjoyed a period of sustained success and snowballing sponsorship deals.

Following the instituaiton of the salary cap which is indexed every year there is not sufficient room to ensure all players are continually satisfied with wage demands. This then leads to a fuller regular market driven turnover of players rather than inequitable buying power purchasing we see in the top 4-6 EPL clubs which degrades the lower capacity teams.

This regular turnover limits the ability of dynasties of success to develop through buying power, sponsorship to be more evenly spread (and TV rights for that matter), and a more variable competition ladder - not predictable. I think it will break down the class aspect in english football, upper, middle, and relegation class.

Brendan Bartlett, Launceston, Australia

One might be cynical and suggest that so many players are now turning a natural talent for football into a way to rake in super bucks. However, there are players, such as Jamie Carragher, who play because they love footy and love their team. What price loyalty and local pride therefore?

The passion for the club, and the fans as it happens, seems to have all but left many players now, as they jockey for the best pot of gold on offer from various clubs.

The loss of football passion, being replaced by six figure salary passion, is turning our game into a three-ring circus of high stakes extravagance, all, as this article points out, at the expense of the everyday fan.

I can barely afford a ticket nowadays, and have to travel almost 300 miles for a home game. I can't afford Sky, please ask the players how I am supposed to support their efforts, and their monstrous salaries.

Jennifer Hynes, Plymouth, England

The idea of a salary cap in team sports originates in the US in both professional American Football and Baseball. But how the salary cap in the US actually works is always misunderstood when its application is discussed in relation to Europe and football.

So let's be clear the salary cap is defined as the maximum amount a team may spend on player compensation for ALL of its players combined. Unlike other leagues, for example the NBA (which permits certain exemptions) or Major League Baseball (which has a "soft cap" enforced by "luxury taxes"), the NFL has a "hard cap:" an amount no team under any circumstances may exceed.

The NFL salary cap is calculated by a formula. It is defined by the current CBA to be 59.5% of the total projected league revenue for the upcoming year. This number, divided by the number of teams, determines an individual teams maximum salary cap. For 2007, it is projected that this will rise to $109 million.

There is NO reason this cannot work in FOOTBALL

Neil, Walton on Thames, UK

I love football, it's an amazing game to me. But sadly nowadays it's all about the money. Players who earn £100000 a week or more is still complaining! That is ridiculous, i mean it's only their "pocket money" the get cars, food, clothes, and maybe even flats for free? It's time to bring back the passion in football again. It's loong gone...
But as long a we spectators pay to watch it either live or at home, well then the clubs will keep paying the players what they want. Sad but true

Daniel, London,

we are a capitalist society and so if the even after raising the salaries clubs are still making money how can you cap them, if they were surely it would be anticompetitive. it is a shame that the top four will further break from the pack without abramovich-esque investment but i don not think capping players salaries would be a way to restore equality to the football league. how about making it non-profit and funded by the government. (that was a joke). if someone is willing to pay a 20 something year old 200,000 pounds to run around a football pitch once/twice a week who are we to stop them. more fool us or tuning in every game or travelling the length and breadth of the country or continent every time a game is on.

David Simons, London,