Talk:Soviet Top League

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Economics
I'm curious about the economic side of things in this league. Given that this was under communism, who owned the teams? Were they free to pay players whatever they wanted, or was there some sort of a cap? Were transfers allowed ? Funnyhat (talk) 21:44, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The organisation of clubs was based on major employers, eg CSKA was the team of the army, Lokomotiv the team of the railway workers, Dynamo the team of the police force. There was very little movement of top players, certainly in terms of movement to the west - leaving the Eastern Bloc was similar to Cuban baseball players defecting to the US today. I don't think they were paid salaries per se but the players had cushy "jobs" within the structure of the parent organisation. The fact they weren't paid salaries meant that the Eastern Bloc countries could play their full national sides in the Olympics, whereas Western countries only sent the highest level of non-professional players. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 19:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah, thanks. Very interesting! Funnyhat (talk) 01:35, 25 June 2010 (UTC)