Championship clubs propose £20 million salary cap.

[flo]

It's a good idea and would make it more competitive plus cheaper tickets. Only thing is what the premier league does. 

[Spookone]

1 hour ago, Drewswfc said:

It should be wrote in all contracts that all wages drop if relegated then do away with stupid parachute payments

Thought this was the obvious thing to do for years. 

[room0035]

Just now, Spookone said:

Thought this was the obvious thing to do for years. 

Agreed

[Mike Hunt]

1 hour ago, Royal_D said:

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

Where else are they going to play for better dosh?

[Minton]

1 hour ago, wellbeaten-the-owl said:

If there is any exceptions then rules are just at idiotic at current ones.  

 

Salary cap should not be a fixed number it should be a fixed % of turnover and parachute payments should be abolished and instead added to money distributed across the EFL.

 

Then you have a fair system.

 

There should be a 3 year window to transition into the new rules to allow premier League clubs to arrange contracts around relegation 

 

 

The parachute payments are already spread amongst the 92 if a team goes up in the first season, added to the £100m per season the PL give to the EFL to distribute to the teams already.

 

If you have a % of turnover then it will become a closed shop for big city teams, plus the gulf between PL and EFL would be so huge that it would be pointless to be promoted. 

[109Waddle]

1 hour ago, Drewswfc said:

Just glad Jones has gone.... He was on 20m a month

And Gary Teale too, heard we’re still paying for his Bentley.

[Sefton owl]

I welcome any intention like this with open arms. 
 

The game has been calling for drastic action from a financial sustainability perspective. Unfortunately several clubs have paid the worst prices, bury etc. Some by other means, one which is probably going to be us. 
 

This situation has dragged on for long enough now. 

[OohAahGuyWhittingham]

As I think someone has already suggested, a better way to deal with relegated teams is for the PL to force clubs to use parachute money to pay off contracts - no new signings with it.

If someone goes down with a 50m wage bill... here you go have 20m to get rid of whoever you can't afford to keep. Much better than sticking the money in their pockets to do what they want with (usually scooping up the best players in the division and gamble on going straight up).

 

Everyone's happy - clubs can get their wage bill down to what is suitable for their level and players don't lose out on the money they're owed. If they find a new club that will match or better their contract, the money goes back to the EFL/PL to be spent on infastructure or grass roots football. If they don't find a club to pay them as much, their wages are topped up by the parachute payments to what their original contract was.

[sherlyegg]

Think there could be loop holes to exploit...

For instance, just get a bookmaker to 'sponsor' a player, pay him whatever...

Surprised no one has thought of it tbh

[sherlyegg]

4 minutes ago, Sefton owl said:

The game has been calling for drastic action from a financial sustainability perspective.

Surely it's all reletive, some clubs could go tittts up for £5 / £10m.

Some might not bat an eyelid losing £50m.

[Inspector Lestrade]

I do like the idea in general but wouldn't we suffer as we have higher overheads, ground upkeep policing etc.  

[SiJ]

It'll just increase the gap between the PL and the rest, whilst reducing the quality of the Championship further.

 

I'd suggest that the downturn in quality we are seeing at the moment is in part due to FFP and teams not recruiting at the levels they were a few years back.

 

Stupid idea unless the PL get on board with it.

[crookesowl]

Something needs to be done. Why not this? 

[SiJ]

1 minute ago, crookesowl said:

Something needs to be done. Why not this? 

See above.

[cross owl]

So get promoted , have to buy an entire new squad to compete , finish in the bottom three and have to pay them all off and have to buy an entire championship squad 

[legendaryswan]

Id back this all the way,its long overdue,player wages are out of control,sapping the tv money when investment should be used on facilities and supporters,it has to start somewhere,who knows even the prem may adopt it if its shown to have an effect.

 

[SiJ]

So you are limited to a wage bill of 20 million. 

 

You get promoted to the Prem where you are suddenly competing with teams who have wagebills in the hundreds of millions of pounds. 

 

In order to even have a sniff of competing you probably have to at least double your wagebill, if not treble it.

 

You then get relegated and have to get rid of everyone within x amount of time to ensure you are once again complying with the 20 million cap.

 

Anyone who thinks the top clubs will follow suit are smoking crack. They'll happily let the Championship cut itself further and further adrift from the very top. 

 

 

[legendaryswan]

4 minutes ago, cross owl said:

So get promoted , have to buy an entire new squad to compete , finish in the bottom three and have to pay them all off and have to buy an entire championship squad 

Course you dont you re negotiate contracts and stick in the clauses that offer incentives should you work hard enough to gain promotion back,rather than rewarding failure

[legendaryswan]

1 minute ago, SiJ said:

So you are limited to a wage bill of 20 million. 

 

You get promoted to the Prem where you are suddenly competing with teams who have wagebills in the hundreds of millions of pounds. 

 

In order to even have a sniff of competing you probably have to at least double your wagebill, if not treble it.

 

You then get relegated and have to get rid of everyone within x amount of time to ensure you are once again complying with the 20 million cap.

 

Anyone who thinks the top clubs will follow suit are smoking crack. They'll happily let the Championship cut itself further and further adrift from the very top. 

 

 

Dont see the pigs players complaining,there wage bill wasnt much north of 20M,bet theyve all got clauses in their new contracts saying your wages will revert to championship levels if relegated

[Minton]

5 minutes ago, legendaryswan said:

Course you dont you re negotiate contracts and stick in the clauses that offer incentives should you work hard enough to gain promotion back,rather than rewarding failure

 

You don't think there are performance clauses already? When you see a figure in the media about player X being on £50,000 per week, that is if they meet all their targets (appearance, goal, assist, clean sheet etc etc) and it's been reported this week about Man Utd players all having a pay cut as they missed out on the Champions League last season. There are also numerous clubs that insert wage cut/rise clauses in contracts for relegation/promotion.