EFL Salary Cap abolished


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Yet people tended to argue the exact opposite about FFP when we were in the Premier league. Odd that.
It wasn’t about a fixed cap in the PL though it was a percentage of turnover. I’m pretty sure nobody would be complaining of it was about percentage of turnover.

I reckon the PFA will finally take action in about August when they realise that a large number of their members are out of contract and having to either take a massive pay cut, move abroad or hope that a Championship club might want them to warm their bench.
 
It was an absolutely farcical decision to bring it in off the back of a vote in the first place. I've been very vocal on here about it on plenty of occasions but its been a golden ticket for the smaller teams to have a pop at promotion as their structures haven't had to change, whilst the bigger teams compete with an arm tied behind their back - no wonder it was voted in, a few chairman will have been pissing themselves with glee.

You can afford it but we can't, so you can't spend it either. It was kicked out at Champo level and imagine the uproar in the PL if Man United etc were told they could only spend the same as a WBA or a Sheff United.
 
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.
Let’s not forget deferred payments, signing bonuses, post career book deals, a house for your parents, ...
So many ways around it.
 
Of course it is. I am amazed its lasted this long. In what other profession is there restrictions on where you are allowed to go and work ffs
 
Club salary caps are fair enough but it must be done across the board or not at all.

Works in other sports does it not?
 
Of course it is. I am amazed its lasted this long. In what other profession is there restrictions on where you are allowed to go and work ffs

Had we been in ‘normal times’ I’m convinced a legal challenge would have been mounted by now.

Farcical cap which will surely be confined to the scrap heap asap
 
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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.

Clearly, some FPP rules are essential. However, I can't see too much wrong with a cap based on a percentage of recurring income (ie what's classed as turnover in a set of football clubs account. That would still be tighter than the previous rules, which allowed for incoming transfer fees and owner input to be classed as income, but still allow a variable cap proportionate to the size of a club.
 
It's ludicrous, it may be illegal, and should be overturned but let's not pretend it is the reason we don't go up this season. If we don't go up this season it's because of abysmal management, recruitment and decision making at all levels for years.

Before the salary cap, when we still had parachute payments, the most expensive squad in League One history, the biggest crowds in League One history, spent more than the rest of the Division combined on new players, and broke the League One transfer record, we still couldn't get promoted.
 
Had we been in ‘normal times’ I’m convinced a legal challenge would have been mounted by now.

Farcical cap which will surely be confined to the scrap heap asap

Its had a big impact in what we could of done in these two windows since it was implemented. f***ing typical
 
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