Only issue I see with it is that you can't legislate against greed or ego or desperation (no matter what 'books' are presented to Mainland). Your club criteria approach also assumes the club has the good of the whole sport in mind. Unfortunately some clubs without an interest in, or little chance of building a junior pathway, will continue to "do what 'has' to be done" in the words of one club's rant, ie pay lip service to building the game but really it's all about ego, so they will pay players $300 per game & allow them to train when they feel like it. (How must the team mates who train twice a week and pay subs feel about the galacticos in the squad?). The sooner that kind of thinking is confined to history the better; but I don't have an easy solution to enforce the extinction.