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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Ray Parlour > Indian Super League - what if football was more like cricket?
 
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Chris de Sperg
Aug 14, 2009

HJB posted:

This isn't a replacement, the intention is that the local lads taking part benefit from the experience of the whole thing, working with some of the stars of the sport, and then they'll filter down into the national league, I guess helping the national team grow in the long run.

I don't really know how it'll work with contracts and things though, I mean these teams are separate from the national league, they're only active for a couple of months each year.
I imagine it'll be one-season contracts only for the imports, and either they'll formally loan the players from the ISL or just sign them on one-year deals too. ISL clubs won't want to give players multi-year deals anyway at this stage because the league could very easily go bust after one year (that's an offical Chris de Sperg Suggestion right there), and I don't think many I-League clubs are committing to long-term contracts either because that doesn't really happen at that level of play. FIFA regulations would stop the the sort of contracts you see in some sports where players sign with more than one league I think but in practice given the structure of both leagues it'd just be a matter of settling formalities.

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Chris de Sperg
Aug 14, 2009

Hamas Rodriguez posted:

This thread is disrespectful and I hope you're all ashamed.
No need to throw your poop out of your pram

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