Wage cap

Does anyone know how next year's wage cap is going to work .I fear the worse if Town can only spend the same as teams near big cities ,who can recruit players from premier and championship teams at low wages. Are there any loopholes such as appearance ,bonus payments etc .If we can't pay more then youngsters living at home or on first mortgage are going to stay in their area .

Quoted from Norseman

Does anyone know how next year's wage cap is going to work .I fear the worse if Town can only spend the same as teams near big cities ,who can recruit players from premier and championship teams at low wages. Are there any loopholes such as appearance ,bonus payments etc .If we can't pay more then youngsters living at home or on first mortgage are going to stay in their area .

This is easy. Town don’t play by the rules, refuse to take part in such a scheme, legal challenge, inevitable win as a precedent was set in the EFL, and we challenge for promotion.

A wage cap is not legally enforceable.

Quoted from Heisenberg

This is easy. Town don’t play by the rules, refuse to take part in such a scheme, legal challenge, inevitable win as a precedent was set in the EFL, and we challenge for promotion.

A wage cap is not legally enforceable.

That's good as I feel we would be at a disadvantage

Quoted from Heisenberg

This is easy. Town don’t play by the rules, refuse to take part in such a scheme, legal challenge, inevitable win as a precedent was set in the EFL, and we challenge for promotion.

A wage cap is not legally enforceable.

We are not going to be doing that. JS has already expressed his support for this ‘levelling down’ in one of his Guardian articles

Quoted from HerveJosse

We are not going to be doing that. JS has already expressed his support for this ‘levelling down’ in one of his Guardian articles

Well if you don’t spend big, you stay down.

Be careful what you wish for. We might think scrapping it would benefit us but it could potentially allow other clubs to acquire owners with a few million quid to throw away on a pet project.

Loads of ways round it. Signing on fees, payment for other duties, bonuses

So after the ‘wage cap’ what is the next step.
Equal training facilities. ?
After all why should rich clubs be able to spend millions on training grounds etc.?  That’s not fair. Or clubs that can afford to stay in decent hotels the night before an away game. That’s not fair. Or clubs that can afford to pay for a nutritionist etc. That’s  not fair.

I wouldn’t want a sugar daddy or billionaire owners for which we are some kind of fashion statement. But you can’t limit every club. That genuinely isn’t fair.

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In my opinion, some of the bigger clubs will spend on infrastructure but in the main it will push other costs up.

Lets say the salary cap is set at £900k but we currently spend £1.5m on wages, we have a £600k surplus compared to a club like Boreham Wood who spend £900k or less on wages.

How we spend that £900k is down to us so we might be willing to pay a specific player £2k per week whilst other teams might think he's only worth £1.5k per week and there will always be an element of that.

When it comes to players under contract elsewhere though, clubs are going to know that we have a £600k burning hole so £50k for the next Omar Bogle becomes £250k and so on. Clubs will start putting wives in well paid jobs for doing next to nothing, to compensate for what they can't offer the player. Unsure if signing on fees and taxable benefits like cars, houses etc are within the £900k limit but I can see those increasing if they aren't.

Any salary cap in my opinion should be a percentage of turnover with loopholes that allow owners to inflate that income with over inflated sponsorships closed.

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