Dowbocop wrote:Been thinking about this salary cap. I always thought that it would be a cap per player and not per team (don't the MLS have something like that?). Basically a small number of unlimited wage marquee spots, then capped for the rest of the named squad. It seems like clubs will have to plan over contract timeframes for an unknown cap value, which is going to lead to a financial offside trap situation.
I assume that most teams would want to be fairly close to the limit of this 5x turnover salary cap to remain competitive. However, if a very low-turnover club go up, could we be in a situation where most of the league will need to offload players to limbo under the cap, but nobody in the PL can take them because they're all in the same boat and most of Europe can't take them because of high PL wages?
I think the 5x turnover is a spending cap, not a salary cap. So there shouldn't be any issues with a club not knowing how much it can spend on transfers in a given period.
Any salary cap would be completely separate and linked to a % of your own turnover presumably.
Having a moving spending cap based on who gets promoted/relegated is an interesting concept though. Presumably the lowest turnover clubs are probably likely to be the promoted clubs in most cases, so you could have the case of clubs wanting to influence who gets promoted or relegated (e.g. via player loans) in order to move their spending cap for an upcoming period.
