General EFL Salary Cap Withdrawn

[werthersoriginal]

I think it was RyanBirdio who said the salary cap actually restricted our club's transfer model of buy/improve/sell.
So we couldn't pay the high signing on fees and high wages of talent that we could improve and sell for a decent profit.

Indeed - we'd be totally unable to sign the likes of McGuane permanently, then sell them on for a big profit in 18 months. (We probably won't be able to sign him anyway but the point stands).

 

[RgYellows]

I think it was RyanBirdio who said the salary cap actually restricted our club's transfer model of buy/improve/sell.
So we couldn't pay the high signing on fees and high wages of talent that we could improve and sell for a decent profit.

Although equally, by limiting our spending to less than turnover, it removed the need to sell players on to fund years of structural losses.

 

[sideshowrob]

I assume the squad size limit will also go. It has not been mentioned but it would be odd to keep one restriction and not the other.

 

[Scotchegg]

The one change that I would welcome would be to limit squad numbers but exclude u21's and home grown players from those numbers. It would reward youth development and give more first team opportunities to younger players.

 

[Oxymoron]

This thread stirred a memory that I had posted some ramblings about squad size and the loan system on a previous version of the yellows noticeboard; it took a bit of finding but here it is. I still believe that the points I raised are relevant, even though the context of the thread is different and it's worth opening if only to see the posters names from six years ago......

 

[Sarge]

I assume the squad size limit will also go. It has not been mentioned but it would be odd to keep one restriction and not the other.

a squad limit of 22 (or the even more restrictive 20 ) are/were IMO too small... though I would be in favour of squad limits of 24/25 across all EFL and PL leagues in England

plus of course U21/ U23s, home developed and academy players

though Im not decided on whether there should also be a limit on squad sizes introduced for younger and academy players

 

[mooro]

The one change that I would welcome would be to limit squad numbers but exclude u21's and home grown players from those numbers. It would reward youth development and give more first team opportunities to younger players.

I would love to see that any player that was at the club prior to age 18 (or perhaps 19) is permanently excluded from the squad number limit as well as all U21s. As you say, this would really reward youth development, and would avoid the likes of Sam Long being jettisoned at age 21, just as he is beginning to grow into decent player.

 

[Sarge]

I would love to see that any player that was at the club prior to age 18 (or perhaps 19) is permanently excluded from the squad number limit as well as all U21s. As you say, this would really reward youth development, and would avoid the likes of Sam Long being jettisoned at age 21, just as he is beginning to grow into decent player.

that would be decent and sensible move ..... shame the EFL are under Parry

 

[Concretebob]

One of the problems with the salary restrictions though was that the Championship didn't implement it. That would have created exactly the same sort of gap between the Championship and L1 as now exists between the Prem and the Championship. And of course the reason the Championship didn't vote for it is because it would have made the gap between themselves and the Prem even wider (and of course they weren't ignoring the fact that it gave them some insurance against being in L1 for too long if they got relegated!).

However, that is not to say that I don't agree with you - I find it frustrating that football is so much a game of the haves and the have nots, and that the more money you can throw at a club the better their chances of success. That is as true within a league as much as it is across the leagues. Without a total restructure of football (maybe with a complete redistribution of the daft TV money and that won't happen) I can't see how that will change any time soon.

Now I know very little about finances and even less about salary caps, but the conspiracy theory in me thinks the EFL were hell bent on making the Championship into "Premier League 2" I means there's always chatter about Parry having clandestine meetings with the Premier League bigwigs...

(I'll remove my tin hat now)