NFL and Prem (4 replies)

I know that sport in the USA is not like sport over here, but have been amusing myself watching the NFL draft for the 2020 season.

Of course their links between college football and the big boys of the NFL are totally different to what we currently have...but if ever anything was to change over here, now would be the time.

What if say all the players out of contract on June 30, and all the players who had turned 17 in the preceding season became the pool of players for the draft. Winners of the play off get first pick, then Champ runners up...and so on until the Prem winners from the season before get 20th. Keep going until the pool of players is exhausted and/or no one wants any of 'em.

Players get no choice in it..for example, the top QB has just been drafted to the woeful Bengals...so over here, say Kane can't sort a new contract, either he has a season playing for Brentford, or he has to sit the season out.

The idea, of course, to try to level up the talent between all the teams in the NFL..which by and large (apart from the hapless Detroit Lions) it seems to have done....and this is something that very much needs to happen in the Prem.

(Prepares to be shot down in flames)