EFL Salary Cap abolished


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Not the Top 20 Pod posting on Twitter that there are rumors that the salary cap may be overturned.

Hope to god this is true. Yes clubs need to be sustainable in this division but a flat cap is not the way to go. There is no reason a club our size should be limited to the same cap as clubs like Accrington Stanley for example who pull in significantly less revenue per season.

The cap well and truly screwed us over this January and may well be one of the factors In us not going up at the end of this season.
 
Not the Top 20 Pod posting on Twitter that there are rumors that the salary cap may be overturned.

Hope to god this is true. Yes clubs need to be sustainable in this division but a flat cap is not the way to go. There is no reason a club our size should be limited to the same cap as clubs like Accrington Stanley for example who pull in significantly less revenue per season.

The cap well and truly screwed us over this January and may well be one of the factors In us not going up at the end of this season.
Yet people tended to argue the exact opposite about FFP when we were in the Premier league. Odd that.
 
Great news. All that being said, I'm fully onboard with us imposing something like these rules on ourselves. The issue for me has always been where the salary cap sits from a gross number perspective. It was never appropriate for a club like SAFC. The last thing I want to see if this gets overturned is a return to a massive, overpaid squad full of ageing players.
 
Yet people tended to argue the exact opposite about FFP when we were in the Premier league. Odd that.
If the salary cap was applied to all 4 divisions then fair enough but it hasn't. It hasn't even been applied to the Championship where the last club to go into Administration was in Wigan. It is driving down salaries for footballers at the lower end i.e. the players who worry about their mortgages. This will enable the Championship to cherry pick any players they fancy from League One at lower wages. If it needs doing and is legal then it should be applied to all divisions. That said, I can't see how it is legal - we want and can afford to pay a certain wage and the rules say we can't - we are denying people money.
 
If the salary cap was applied to all 4 divisions then fair enough but it hasn't. It hasn't even been applied to the Championship where the last club to go into Administration was in Wigan. It is driving down salaries for footballers at the lower end i.e. the players who worry about their mortgages. This will enable the Championship to cherry pick any players they fancy from League One at lower wages. If it needs doing and is legal then it should be applied to all divisions. That said, I can't see how it is legal - we want and can afford to pay a certain wage and the rules say we can't - we are denying people money.
Some over here in the states argue that it is a good thing in sports like American football and basketball but those are closed divisional sports that do not have promotion or relegation. For those sports the cap is extremely high so you can sign players to high contracts.
 
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