Parkinson slams the salary cap and the other L1 clubs



Vore said:
@Grumpy Old Man
Deferring to someone sensible, what would be your take re: abide by disputed salary cap rules vs ignore disputed salary cap rules?

Are we right to be sticking to the debated rules, having seen City persevere so recently?
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Other than a financial penalty for an overrun of up to 5%, any further penalties haven't been specified. Transfer embargoes and points deductions can't be ruled out.
 
Why is it so straight forward to implement a salary cap, but there doesn’t seem to be a cap on ticket prices, for example? It’s not fair that we’re in an economically poorer area, so we make less per fan.
 
FWIW, the concept of a salary cap isn't terrible.

Where it loses me is the application of a strict line across all clubs. This isn't a top league, so in theory, you end up losing the 'best team' every season to promotion. If this was the Premier League I could understand trying to adopt it for the sake of parity so more teams have a chance of winning. The notion that say Sunderland and Accrington are bound to the same cheque book is ridiculous. There are teams who's ceiling is League One. Limiting their spending won't suddenly catapult them up or make the division more diverse.

At the same time, you've just made it exponentially harder for teams that do go up into the Championship because they don't adhere to it. They're likely spending even less than their rivals, and if they do go for a rush of investment there's a chance they have to then chop that quickly if they go down.
 
PP should have got us up last season and he'd not have been in this mess.

It was designed to avoid another Bury or Bolton, not to help clubs like ours who've completely fucked ourselves due to the complete mismanagement of the last 12 years.
 
Parkinson is upset at the thought of actually having to prove he can get the best out of a squad that can only be paid as much as everyone else.

The cap will actually show who is the best coach with the best tactics. We have the best training ground already, so we have an advantage over those who train in a shit-hole.
 
I’m all for a salary cap but it should be a blanket one across the whole of the sport or at least Europe. The fact it should only happen to 2 “professional” divisions in the lower reaches of the Football League but everyone else gets to carry on as normal is a f***ing farce.

I think Gordon Taylor is a **** but I hope he takes the EFL and these shite tin pot clubs to court and tears them to shreds. Bunch of absolute amateurs man. Embarrassing.
Charmless Man said:
Had one of the Rochdale board members on Talksport earlier saying its fair and makes sense. Not a shred of reasoning behind this. It just is.
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The fat drip was on Sky last week looking smug as fuck about it. He’s got himself loads of airtime over the last week. Small time arsehole.
 
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It's a form of "football socialism", "I can't aspire to that, so you can't have it". Basic maths, ignoring debt etc. We get 30k/match with a "spend" of £30/head (ticket /prog/food/drinks/corporate) = £900k/match x 23 (ignore cups)= £20m+, take off VAT £17m (ignoring TV money and shirt sales etc). We won't be able to spend that on players (salary restrictions), absolute shite of a proposal that's been voted through.
I have no time for Gordon Taylor, but, on this I hope he rips the L1 clubs a new arsehole!! With those that voted it in dividing the legal costs between them.
 
There needs to be an elevation bonus for promotion, comparable with parachute payments to enable promoted sides to deal with the leap from non league pay structures to that of recently relegated premiership sides. Unless we get out and stay out this season we are fucked as a club "with potential".
 
If only we'd played better and won promotion, he wouldn't have these concerns now.
Vore said:
@Grumpy Old Man
Deferring to someone sensible, what would be your take re: abide by disputed salary cap rules vs ignore disputed salary cap rules?

Are we right to be sticking to the debated rules, having seen City persevere so recently?
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My uneducated view is we'd get shafted with a points deduction.
 
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Carrick18 said:
FWIW, the concept of a salary cap isn't terrible.

Where it loses me is the application of a strict line across all clubs. This isn't a top league, so in theory, you end up losing the 'best team' every season to promotion. If this was the Premier League I could understand trying to adopt it for the sake of parity so more teams have a chance of winning. The notion that say Sunderland and Accrington are bound to the same cheque book is ridiculous. There are teams who's ceiling is League One. Limiting their spending won't suddenly catapult them up or make the division more diverse.

At the same time, you've just made it exponentially harder for teams that do go up into the Championship because they don't adhere to it. They're likely spending even less than their rivals, and if they do go for a rush of investment there's a chance they have to then chop that quickly if they go down.
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You do not lose 'the best team' each season, history shows this is not the reality, Leeds, Southampton, both Sheffield teams as well as ourselves have struggled.
One of the problems with the new salary cap is it only applies to 2 divisions in isolation.
EFL have created a problem where a non league team can sign players on contracts at a higher salary level than both League 1 and 2 clubs
Another issue is a drain on talent, suddenly even non league football and the SFL could be more rewarding than Leagues 1 and 2.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
Other than a financial penalty for an overrun of up to 5%, any further penalties haven't been specified. Transfer embargoes and points deductions can't be ruled out.
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This notice of arbitration. When could a decision be made on the salary cap. Would it not have to be sharpish considering we are in a transfer window? Is it a long process?
 
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Could we lure players with the offer of a massive bonus upon promotion ?
The only thing we need is to get out of this tin pot league and never fall so low again, typical of our luck for this to happen while we are down here.
 
If it stops Parkinson signing his own players and forces him to consider our younger players then I’m all for it tbh. Imagine the lumps we’d have signed instead.
 

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