Salary cap in League 1 and 2 confirmed

They will never never have a level playing field, swillsboro slopes over a metre from one end to the other

 

Thing is you look at the clubs in leagues one and two and with the exception of Sunderland, Portsmouth, Ipswich, Bolton, Plymouth, Bradford and possibly Wigan, Swindon, Oldham and MK dons, I don’t think there’s a club left that can attract sustainable crowds of 10k+.


The salary cap is the death of the lower leagues, I’m sure there are clubs in the conference with wage bills not far off or exceeding £2.5m like Notts County etc.


Life below the championship I can see it being opened up to premier league B teams very soon, it will kill the league system in the long run.

 

So what happens next time we get relegated? We just have to cut the wage bill by 80% overnight? That's absolutely bonkers.

 

No, we wouldn't. Contracts signed before relegation would effectively be partially exempt.

 

Every player will be treated as earning the divisional average for the length of their contract.

So if you assume 20-man squads and we go down and end up with 10 contracted players costing a total of £4m pa, the calculation as to how much we'd have left to spend will be done based on them earning something like £1.25m. We'd have another £1.25m pa to spend on ten new players to fill up the squad.

 

That's sensible. We could do with something like this in the Championship to prevent misuse of parachute payments. Though I guess that if any attempt was made to bring it in, the idea of a "Premier League 2" would quickly reappear.

 

Barnsley be signing some good players on 8 year contracts at this rate, just incase we ever go down

 

Not much use if they got us relegated!

I could legitimately see it happening with some big Conference clubs though. I'm sure the likes of Notts County could drum up more than £1.5m a year in wages, and I bet Salford City did when they were down there. Could end up with them having to cut back on spending after becoming a League club!

 

how would stopping the progress of upwardly mobile and well run clubs be of benefit? your opening paragraph about stopping a closed shop is totally at odds with your second!

 

Why should a club be able to afford bigger and better players just because they are from a large city and have a historic larger fanbase. Surely a level playing field on the pitch would help the smaller clubs (like ours) compete? Go back to the 70s and 80s and teams like Villa, Ipswich and Forest could rise up and win the league just by getting a good manager and some good signings.

Perhaps Sunderland could lower the admission cost or improve the customer experience instead of blowing it on a couple of players.

 

It'll be the death of the middle of the road clubs with aspirations of getting better. O.K if you're ***** with 2000 gates and are content with the odd cup run.

 

I knew it, this has been the plan all along. This is one giant hoax and we’ve all fallen for it.

They’ve taken away our freedom and stuck nappies on our faces, we’ve not been able to send our kids back to school to kill us all and we’re going to be vaccinated with micro chips made by McCain.

And now this.

 

I said some sort of this situation will happen when they introduce B teams to the premier league teams. Time for a divide in the English leagues. I don't care if one league ends up like Scotland. Least its passion and how football use to be

 

I see the opposite. I see it as a chance for the smaller clubs to compete and join the elite.
Players, (unless at the top of their game and capable of moving up the leagues.) will be looking at the better run clubs rather than the supposedly big clubs. To try achieve their dream of bigger salaries.
I don’t see the system as perfect but the clubs have voted this in. I can see why.

 

Why? If Rochdale and Sunderland both have the same salary cap then the team that gets the best manager and recruits the best players will do better. It levels the playing field.

You could argue that Sunderland have more fans and are more attractive, but is Sunderland more attractive to a 20 year old than Gillingham or Wimbledon?

 

While I have no objection to salary caps in principle, it has to be all or nothing. Continuing to allow Championship clubs to have a different system to L1 and L2 is only going to widen the gap between Championship and L1.

We've moaned for years about parachute payments helping to maintain an "us and them" set-up. This form of salary cap gives the same kind of advantage to any club relegated to L1. We'd have a squad full of relatively higher earners whose contracts will be partially discounted when comparing our total wage bill to the cap. Under those conditions, I'd even back Jose Morais to get us back up if we were relegated.

 

Isn't the Championship cap under discussion? Looks like it will be set at £18m per season

 

I cant say I've seen figures for the championship but it has to be the next step. The crazy thing though, if you have flat set rate thats £18m,,, there are plenty of clubs that cant afford that. And what would it change in terms of Wigans situation? £10m t/o and £18m wages is still a recipe for disaster but would still be perfectly legal.

 

Jimmy Hill will be turning in his grave. Didn't he lead the campaign to abandon the maximum weekly wage for footballers in the early 60s, which I believe was £10 per week at the time.

 

There's going to be a lot of out of work footballers. It might benefit the clubs short term but it won't help players.