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Championship clubs propose £20 million salary cap.


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21 minutes ago, MAL said:

What is the punishment, if clubs don't adhere to it?

Serious answer--I liked the others--but the serious answer is that there is no penalty, because you dont let it happen. The EFL refuses to register the players if the cap is exceeded.

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2 minutes ago, Hamakua Pueo said:

But he will file the paperwork wrong, and the scam will be rejected, and he will be personally charged.

I can see it now. 

 

He'll sign a team of players on 50k a week but he'll contract them as half a football player and half a tinned tuna factory worker 50% salary each. 

 

Bingo. 50k a week player but only 25k a week on the wednesday wage bill. 

 

 

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52 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said:

I'd like to see a cap on wages and fees.

But unless it encompasses all English League divisions it won't achieve anything. IMO.

Not going to happen though is it, and therefore this makes no sense unless they can somehow address the issue of clubs coming down with a £40-£50m wage bill. 

 

The minute a salary cap effects the pulling power of the 50% of PL clubs with a chance of being relegated is the minute the PL will close ranks and ensure this can't work.

 

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1 hour ago, Nero said:

Salary cap will just push up transfer fees if they arent controlled as well. 

Good if premiership failures are made to keep to same rules as everyone else though.

 

True, signing on fees would be used to bump up player income instead.

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31 minutes ago, Royal_D said:

All it’s gonna do is lower the quality of player wanting to play in the championship 

 

Where would they go though? 

They aren't in the PL because PL clubs don't want them and they wouldn't get paid any more in any other league. 

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1 hour ago, The only way is S6 said:

The richer clubs / failure payments will still succeed by throwing other huge incentives into deals for players, that aren't classed as wages.  Houses, cars, sponsorship deals, endorsements etc etc.

 

 

Under the counter payments, brown paper packages and meetings in motorway service stations.  

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£25mill would look better.

 

Gap squads to have a maximum of 20 over 23 year old players too.

 

Essentially means every player in the squad could potentially earn £1mill each including bonuses. More than enough for a 2nd division footballer. 
 

BUT...
 

If you’re bringing in a salary gap you absolutely HAVE to scrap parachute payments. Force clubs to negotiate their Premier League squads in to contracts that accommodate a £25mill wage bill should they get relegated. 
 

 

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8 minutes ago, NeonLeon said:

£25mill would look better.

 

Gap squads to have a maximum of 20 over 23 year old players too.

 

Essentially means every player in the squad could potentially earn £1mill each including bonuses. More than enough for a 2nd division footballer. 
 

BUT...
 

If you’re bringing in a salary gap you absolutely HAVE to scrap parachute payments. Force clubs to negotiate their Premier League squads in to contracts that accommodate a £25mill wage bill should they get relegated. 
 

 

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It would make it harder for newly promoted sides to remain in the Premiership. Players would know that joining a promoted side could lead to a big drop in salary on relegation.

 

I'm all for a salary cap but every solution to the existing problem seems to further cement the closed shop in the Premiership.  I think the whole of English football needs changing but it will never happen while the Premiership has so much power.

 

Any changes will need to be brought in over a 4 year period to give existing player contracts time to run out.

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As is the problem with all these rules and regulations you get teams like Wolves who show total disregard and choose to ignore them, spend what they like on the gamble they will be promoted and upon promotion are no longer subject to the rules.

Let's be fair, it's a pretty safe gamble when you have a league with the standard as poor as the Championship, a squad consisting of champions league players and most importantly a manager and owner who know what they are doing.

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