EFL Salary Cap abolished


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A salary cap makes no sense at all given the vastly different infrastructures at clubs, but something needs to be done.

I prefer the Spanish system where the League decides how much each club is permitted to spend on salaries and transfers based on its projected income and expenditure. Any change to that limit can only come from player sales or capital injections.
 
I think some of the rules they put in place (squad limits, freedom to pay young players outside of the cap) are inherently good things that would have forced a club to exhibit the right behaviours. With a total cap based on recurring income, there's still a hell of a lot of scope for 'bad' or wasteful behaviour within that limit. I maybe have more trust that the club will act appropriately now, given the new people that are in place. However, there's still the possibility that they do things that hurt the long term future of the club. If we've voluntarily imposed the sorts of limits that these regulations described - but at a total salary limit more appropriate for a club of our means - we'll have the best of both worlds IMO.

That would cause more problems if smaller clubs ended up trying to spend more than they could afford just because they were allowed to. The system needs proportionality of income and expenditure which is the same for each club. The system needs to be about sustainability and ensuring clubs live within the means. If clubs spend the cap on the wrong players, that's the fault of the clubs, not the system.
 
Those percentages are far too high. Sustainable is no more than 60% of recurring income.
No worries mate, I just think whatever the multiples are, they should be linked to t/o, but a higher premium placed on attendances rather than some "sponsor" coming along with unjustifiable levels of support. If you reckon 60% I'm good!
 
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.
They've taken action according to that podcast. It's them that have gone to abbitration.
 
And people stated that percentage of turnover unfairly benefitted those clubs who were bigger and better supported abroad and those who made the champions league and was therefore protectionist of the "Big 4" (the predecessor to the big 6)
Should develop their clubs into bigger ones then is my view. Clubs outside the top teams typically overspend which is an issue when they get relegated.

not everyone will ever agree but it’s really simple for me. Salaries should be capped at 60% of revenues and everything needs to be based on incomings with no loans, dodgy owner liability or asset deals. That means anyone investing in clubs are genuinely putting money in.

There was always an argument that London clubs could charge more for tickets but there’s that much money in the prem now, they could make tickets really cheap.
 
Should develop their clubs into bigger ones then is my view. Clubs outside the top teams typically overspend which is an issue when they get relegated.

not everyone will ever agree but it’s really simple for me. Salaries should be capped at 60% of revenues and everything needs to be based on incomings with no loans, dodgy owner liability or asset deals. That means anyone investing in clubs are genuinely putting money in.

There was always an argument that London clubs could charge more for tickets but there’s that much money in the prem now, they could make tickets really cheap.
This was the view of Sunderland fans (not all of them but a fair old whack) when we were in the premier league and weren't benefitting from the salary cap as much as the likes of Manchester City or Liverpool were. Now we're in the third division and have a salary cap that pretty much cripples us while benefitting smaller teams, it seems that the way that the premier league do it is suddenly not that unfair ;)
 
All the people moaming its handicapped us are the same ones that used.to moan when we couldnt compete with the bigger clubs cause they pay fortunes
And League One clubs can’t compete with Championship clubs if L1 has a £2.5M salary cap and the Championship doesn’t have anything similar.
 
When is it being confirmed as scrapped then?
Was just gonna say that,everyone getting excited when the original situation could still stand.God hope it doesnt mind ,still think we will be having a good clearout all the same
 
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That would cause more problems if smaller clubs ended up trying to spend more than they could afford just because they were allowed to. The system needs proportionality of income and expenditure which is the same for each club. The system needs to be about sustainability and ensuring clubs live within the means. If clubs spend the cap on the wrong players, that's the fault of the clubs, not the system.
thing is didnt we have a cpl of weeks to buy decent l1 players or even better before this come into play, so again we could have spent on decent players that would not have been included within the cap.
 
Surely great news for offering some of the players we want to keep a far far better contract
 
Might be just getting our hopes up thread this like (not a dig at OP of course) . Just good news generally stays just past arms length for us.
 
May help us to bring in some uncontracted players if needed, someone with a pair of hands not masquerading as a completely incompetent goalkeeper would be canny.
 
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