£18m salary cap

truck

truck

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As reported in the Gazette, this is still an average wage of £60K a month in a squad of 25. Not exactly a hardship short career or not.
With Gibson / Bulkhaul having supported the club to the tune of £400K a week over the last ten years you can see why our club supposedly in favour of this proposal.
 
truck said:
As reported in the Gazette, this is still an average wage of £60K a month in a squad of 25. Not exactly a hardship short career or not.
With Gibson / Bulkhaul having supported the club to the tune of £400K a week over the last ten years you can see why our club supposedly in favour of this proposal.
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60k a month is only 12k a week, which is still a lot of money but a big drop on what a lot of our leaving players earn.

Assombalonga by himself is on 3 times that.
Gestede, Shotton and Clayton were all on significantly more than that.

Wayne Rooney is probably on 10 times that, but he's paid dodgily anyway.
 
A salary cap would probably affect us worse compared to the many clubs located in cities. A good wage was always our one trick to sign players, and we kind of started it all with the Ravanelli signing!
 
dan_ashcroft said:
A salary cap would probably affect us worse compared to the many clubs located in cities. A good wage was always our one trick to sign players, and we kind of started it all with the Ravanelli signing!
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I don't really buy this as as big a factor as some make out. Lots of Boro players lived/live in Wynyard. So have lots of Newcastle players.

Lots of Boro players have lived in Harrogate. Lots of Leeds players have too.

Just because the club itself is located away from a city doesn't mean the players can't live within striking distance of one if that's what they're bothered about.

Admittedly London is definitely a draw and we can't compete with that. But neither can most northern clubs.
 
it needs a salary cap, we have to pay 30 quid a game to watch half hearted potatoes like gestede takeing about 30k a week home, its disgraceful what **** average footballers are getting, but thats the negative of what sky has brought to the game, worst thing is, it's weakening our economy as most of the sky money is spent on overseas players
 
I think at those sums quoted you would loose a lot of players from the championship to other leagues in Europe and further afield
 
lostinyorkshire said:
why don't they just make it a maximum of 50% of turnover.
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That gives unfair disadvantages to smaller clubs. It would reduce their chances of success, which is what FFP does. It consolidates power in the already bigger clubs. Giving everyone the same cap levels the playing field. We would probably just see an increase in transfer fees seen as though wages would have a maximum limit.

If the proposed £18m salary cap comes in there will be loads of contracts not being renewed and it will make expensive backup options a no go. 1st teamers will get the bulk of the cap and cheap young players will pad the squad. Will be good for developing youngsters. Might make lower leagues more competitive as well because the squad players might drop there to be a big earner with fewer young players available for loan.

Teams will still be able to have high earners, they'll just have to balance that within their squad. It's ridiculous that this has never been given a go because the current model had been unsustainable for years.

Whatever they decide you can at least be certain that it won't reduce ticket prices for fans.
 
i am sure they would fudge it, £18m salary excluding appearance money, performance bonuses. you would no doubt have a player on the max wage, then £20K a goal, bonus for appearances etc etc
I think this summer is going to see a lot of clubs re-setting what they will pay, squad sizes, might not be a good time to be looking for a new club
 
truck said:
i am sure they would fudge it, £18m salary excluding appearance money, performance bonuses. you would no doubt have a player on the max wage, then £20K a goal, bonus for appearances etc etc
I think this summer is going to see a lot of clubs re-setting what they will pay, squad sizes, might not be a good time to be looking for a new club
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I'd be far happier knowing that players contracts were more performance related. Players not playing, being rubbish etc shouldn't be fully compensated. Bonuses for winning, scoring, promotion etc. seems better. It would need a far lower base salary for it to work properly though and I can't see them agreeing that.

In the NFL they give contracts with a guaranteed amount and then a much higher potential value which is based on certain factors.
 
Becksy said:
it needs a salary cap, we have to pay 30 quid a game
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In crude terms, to get £18m to cover just the players wages & we had full houses every home game ticket prices would be c.£23.
Based on the average attendance last season pre-lockdown, you should be paying £39.26 per game.
 
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