Salary Cap

As I said in the thread Vaughan it was down to McCall. If he had told the club that there was no way he would play for again in the early summer then the outcome would have been different it’s either back the manager or overrule

 

I don't do Twitter but I'm sure I've seen screenshots on here where Ryan Sparks has answered fans questions. Can someone just ask him about the accounts and the vote. They are simple black and white questions. Oh and ask about the mysterious secret friendly too.

 

In a funny sort of way I don’t give a stuff if they voted for it, with a few admins under our belt and sitting pretty in the bottom league does it really matter.

We’re pretty skint in football club terms and 5000 ‘half’ season tickets at £150 won’t change that.

 

Ypu would think an investigative journalist would have looked

 

Here

 

The article has now been changed. Sparks all is forgiven. You’re a fantastic mouth piece

 

And another one bites the dust

 

What were the others

 

Indeed.....

 

I did say earlier about Swanny at a scunny bit of a buggar I recon, maybe he fancies coming here he’ll fit right in

 

Keep stating the obvious, but what I don't get is we wanted to use our full budget which is obviously well beyond the 1.5 million and yes city made this clear to everyone so why we didn't very quickly follow Bolton before the 1.5 million limit kicked in is beyond me......it just doesn't make any sense.

Maybe I'm just going mad!

 

We need to leave room in the salary cap for any signings we may have to make in the mid season transfer opening to allow any signings needed to bolster the squad

 

It makes sense if you're actually trying to spend as little as possible whilst pretending otherwise in your public statements. Wait for the cap to come in and then you've got your perfect excuse. Now who could be thinking like that?

 

I posted this on another thread at the start of July:

"Don't know if this has been covered anywhere but, assuming this salary cap comes in, could clubs pay higher loan fees rather than paying the wages of loanees? If a prem/champ club have a lad on, say, 5k per week, could we pay them a loan fee equivalent to his annual wage and they keep paying his wages? I'm thinking this might be a way around the salary cap and makes loans more attractive than permanent signings? I'm not saying I'd want us to do that but it might be a loophole?"

At the time Park shot me down (something about all Prem loans will be free, seeing as he's the oracle and all) but, having read through everything, it does seem that transfer fees, and potentially loan fees, are excluded. If loan fees do end up being excluded then surely it's an opportunity? Another angle is that loaning u21 players won't count towards the cap, regardless of how the loan deal is structured. Loads of details still to be confirmed by the EFL and evidence of this being rushed through with too little thought.

 

Sorry if this has been mentioned before and it’s based on my thoughts rather than facts - now that the salary cap has come in are English clubs (1st and 2nd div) now at a disadvantage. As an example, prior to the cap being introduced we could compete in the transfer market (Wages) with most Scottish clubs apart from say top 6? Now with the introduction of the cap are we now seeing more players going north of the border. I’ve seen a few players recently signing for Scottish clubs, not an exodus but if the trend continues could this become an issue.
Just interested in people’s thoughts, as I said no facts to back it up but could English clubs cry foul (Bowman ruling or similar) as we are competing with one hand tied behind our backs.

 

Yes I noticed that today, it ironically reminded me of when Scottish clubs voted to boot Rangers out of the top league which meant they all lost out on TV income. I think it's an insane rule is this cap which will only hamper the quality furthermore.