OneSirKeefy
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The salary cap is for the overall squad, not for an individual.
The smaller your squad, the more you can pay an individual player.
If we have a squad of say, 18, and 5 of those are loans, then the big money is split between 13 players. Teams like Sunderland have huge squads
Are you just agreeing with me there Shotty, cos, yeah, that’s what I was saying. Big clubs can’t just splash the cash to buy anyone and pay them huge wages.
I’d imagine Sunderland, Hull, Pompey etc already have a lot of players on their books. And they may already be at or near the cap. Therefore they can’t now offer a player like Dempsey anything like he’s maybe worth.
We on the other hand, only have 13 or 14 players and would still have a fair bit in our cap to maybe pay a little more in wages to him.
All pure conjecture. But you’d have to say if Hull and Sunderland are/were interested in him and they could pay what they wanted, then we wouldn’t be in the conversation.