Somebody over the road saying the salary cap doesn't affect relegated clubs from the championship. Surely that can't be right ffs?
He will be, it gives them an advantage they didn't have before. Only way we can get round it imo is to be offering massive promotion bonuses. While it's not a garanteed pay out, it does provide a **** hot good incentive to the players to achieve it and we're one of a few clubs in this division who could actually offer it and afford it.
Another thing I've just realised. This now means clubs aren't limited to a wage spend in relation to income so it's possible that some clubs are actually going to be paying out more as a percentage of turnover than they would have been able to under the previous rules.
We've had an interesting bunch here this week who left this morning ... 3 BBC producers and a top sports lawyer. I asked the lawyer about this salary cap and he said he could tear it to pieces in minutes, if not seconds. His rationale was this. Young lad, like Watmore, chooses football over a career in law. Progresses and chooses to stay with relegated Sunderland. No organisation, including his employer, can impose a retrospective cap on his earnings. Furthermore no one can impose a cap on his current or future earnings. If he chooses law there are no restrictions on his earnings. Hence he shouldn't be penalised for choosing football as his career. The whole thing could be, and will be, destroyed in the first court case brought. This bloke knows what he's talking about, took on UEFA and won.
It comes under ‘restraint of trade’, it’s absolutely bulletproof. You can’t restrict people’s earnings. It simply isn’t legal to do so. In the past with salary caps, such laws didn’t exist. Football and the EFL are not above the law. Like your esteemed pal says, even an ‘adequate’ man of the law would tear it to shreds in 3 lines. That being said, rugby have them of course.
