European clubs move towards the salary cap – and clear the legalities en route

by Christophe Jost For years, each and every time the discussion has addressed the subject of a salary cap, that such system would be totally illegal under EU law and thus the discussions were pretty much dead on arrival or rather dead before the discussions have even arrived.. Indeed now that League One and League …

The real reason Arsenal is winding up its scouting network.

By Tony Attwood Following the announcement about the breaking up of their scouting team, the media has been unsurprisingly quiet on the issue of what Arsenal are going to do about recruitment of young players in the future.   Unsurprisingly quiet, because working out what Arsenal’s plan is means undertaking a little bit of research and …