Originally Posted by
EatYerGreens
I'd say it's more complex than that. It's easy to have salary caps etc in sports like American Football, as it's a closed market. If you don't like the wages on offer in the US, where are you going to go ? Football is the only truly global sport. Any league which brings in salary caps etc is just going to make itself less competitive in Europe, as players will gravitate to better money elsewhere - which neither the leagues nor the associations who run them want. Even club Rugby Union suffered this, despite being a sport which hardly any country plays professionally. England brought in salary restrictions, and that just led to some top players moving to France and Japan for better money (obviously the limited number of alternative pro leagues reduced the number of players this impacted). So without global rules on salary caps etc, any league introducing them on its own is just agreeing to make its teams relatively weaker and move the financial arms race elsewhere.