L1 wage cap vote

[jeffs right]

To put into context how low 2.5m is

For the 18/19 season

Rochdale club wage bill 3.9m

Walsall and Shrewsbury 4.1

Blackpool 4.2

Wimbledon 4.7

Coventry 5.3

Southend 5.6

Scunthorpe 5.8

Fleetwood 7m

Portsmouth 7.4

Barnsley 8.1

Charlton 10.1

Sunderland 26.7

If your wage cap is saying Rochdale are over spending then WTF?!?

Going on roughly £300 per season ticket Rochdale need to sell over 10,000 to meet the wage demands alone. Nothing adds up in football economics whatsoever. Look at Fleetwood on that table too.

 

[ZAKKY]

Jay Whittle



UPDATE FROM PAUL STANLEY: - Salary cap keeps costs down for long-term, so it’s good for helping secure sustainability - In the short term, it doesn’t affect pre-existing contracts for teams who get relegated.

 

[jeffs right]

Here's where a link to the Worriers could help.
They've had years of experience navigating around salary caps - Employing spouses and partners in club admin jobs on large salaries, rent free accommodation, funded cars etc etc etc - all alledgedly of course but sure they could add some real value here

We wouldn't get away with it though. Look what's just happened to us and we did nothing wrong. The Eggs are the biggest name in the egg world and are virtually untouchable.

 

[jeffs right]

Jay Whittle



UPDATE FROM PAUL STANLEY: - Salary cap keeps costs down for long-term, so it’s good for helping secure sustainability - In the short term, it doesn’t affect pre-existing contracts for teams who get relegated.

That's good to know but just get a new owner please Mr Stanley before we start to get deadlines from the EFL cheats.

 

[Hampton]

My thots to, it's as Moonay said...'football will eat itself' ........totally unworkable even tho imo football does need some sort of salary cap but why not start with the biv clubs giving out obscene salaries to the Pogbas and Augeros of the greed league!!!

Exactly Jock - it's 100% arse about face.
Even if the greed league wouldn't sign up the EFL should have started with a championship salary cap and worked down to ensure clubs could successfully and in a financially stable manner move between leagues. If this is adopted following challenge fm the PFA it will kill clubs moving between championship and L1 in both directions - the incompetence of the EFL is boundless.

 

[WarrenBluffit]

The idea of a salary cap to contain costs is absolutely fine but unless you include the PL and Championship it’s surely just suicide. The PL have already indicated capping their players could be a restraint of trade so I don’t see how that can't also apply to players in L1 and L2. Good luck to the PFA in that case. When you consider that players wages being so high is largely a consequence of the insane money paid in the PL it seems wrong that only the lower leagues suffer.