Salary caps

Wow..



imagine if the PL did this.

lower league teams will have more of a level playing field now methinks.

 

Although for L1 that’s still 48k a week.
Hardly anyone will be on that.

edit. Looks like it’s for the whole squad??

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....-news/what-efls-salary-cap-means-18734225.amp

 

I assume that's a starting point. In a few years that will lower?

 

mackems will have a few on £10k I'd imagine. Will Griggs and other ****e like that. Does Rodwell still play for them?

 

Wasn't he on £65k?

 

No idea, hopefully. £65k and he totally fleeced them

 

It's the whole squad so it's a pretty low amount. From what I know, which isn't much, players already contracted will have theirs accounted for as if they are on a set amount (like £1.5k per week) even if they are on a lot more but for future signings they will be accounted for the full value of the contract.

I assume there'll have to be some system for relegated teams (perhaps similar, that all players have their contracts accounted as being a set amount).

It does spell trouble for the bigger teams who may fin themselves with money they cannot spent - I assume there's ways around it like signing on fees and bonuses but it's yet to be tested.

 

That's over the top low.

 

Fantastic move. Higher leagues desperately need to follow suit - of course, I could name 6 clubs who won’t allow it to happen. So it won’t happen.

 

The current average wage in league 1 is just shy of £5000 a week. And £2500 in league 2

I don't envy anyone trying to negotiate a contract.

 

But there HAS to be a starting point, an uncomfortable first pass to start to make football work again. This is a brilliant move by the lower leagues and MUST be replicated further up. Championship has to do it first, obviously, and you've then for the PL who couldn't give a **** as long as their biggest 6 teams keep a competitive advantage - that will be the sticking point, just as it is with the takeover, but if we get transparency and remove corruption football has a fighting chance at regaining its' integrity. It starts with salary caps as a leveller, then transfer restrictions and hefty ceilings on the loan market.

 

I understand the concept but that's a drastic cut. They should have done it over 5 years or something.

 

Many simply don’t have 5 years to survive mate.

 

In which case they still giving those contacts. It's called prudence

 

That’s like expecting people to just be honourable and good. Clubs, like people, desperately need to be controlled or managed.

 

They are a business not an 18 year old with their first credit card

 

Run by humans.

 

Should keep sunderland in the turd division for a while. Unless they go down

 

That's mental if so. ... So a team relegated from the championship would have to transition to paying its entire squad less than what they paid one player previously?

This will no doubt lead to a mass exodus of player to other countries where they can walk into higher paid contracts.

 

Or if they unearth a real talent they are in no position to turn down basic offers from big clubs as they'll be able to offer the player a shed load more cash