Also, I think the wage structure should be tweaked towards performance-related pay. Win bonus, goal/assist bonus, clean sheet bonus...whatever. Yes it sounds Championship Managery but I'm not having Kieron Diaby earning £40k a week. That cannot happen. They could be nice guys but you can't get paid that much for being invisible.

Hard to implement that across the board...clubs like Arsenal, Wigan and Blackburn wouldn't be able to attract players if a 'win bonus' had to be some proportion of their wage. Though a 'goal bonus' might help our players grow some balls.

Impossible to solve all problems with it - there will be obvious trade offs, but there has to be a movement towards performance related pay IMO.