A bit from Liam as well.
Lincoln City chief executive Liam Scully told The Athletic his club agreed with many of Portsmouth’s arguments about the cap being too restrictive on those who could afford to spend more but, in the end, felt the current circumstances trumped other considerations.
“In the absence of (the salary cost management protocol rules), which would be redundant this year because all of our incomes have been so badly hit, we had to find a mechanism,” Scully says.
“After all the hot air and debate, people are maybe forgetting how much shit the game is in right now. We got lucky with the compensation fee from Huddersfield Town for the Cowley brothers and a positive January. Without that we would have been in a real pickle, like most are.
“The gap to the Championship was already huge. Teams have gone up with budgets of £6 to £8 million and come straight back down. So if we go up spending £2.5 million and come back down, at least we haven’t blown an additional £3.5 million in doing so. It’s why many of us are rooting for (recently promoted) Rotherham United. They are well-run and sensible, a bit like Burnley in the Premier League.”
Lincoln City chief executive Liam Scully told The Athletic his club agreed with many of Portsmouth’s arguments about the cap being too restrictive on those who could afford to spend more but, in the end, felt the current circumstances trumped other considerations.
“In the absence of (the salary cost management protocol rules), which would be redundant this year because all of our incomes have been so badly hit, we had to find a mechanism,” Scully says.
“After all the hot air and debate, people are maybe forgetting how much shit the game is in right now. We got lucky with the compensation fee from Huddersfield Town for the Cowley brothers and a positive January. Without that we would have been in a real pickle, like most are.
“The gap to the Championship was already huge. Teams have gone up with budgets of £6 to £8 million and come straight back down. So if we go up spending £2.5 million and come back down, at least we haven’t blown an additional £3.5 million in doing so. It’s why many of us are rooting for (recently promoted) Rotherham United. They are well-run and sensible, a bit like Burnley in the Premier League.”