Football League Salary Caps

[ncfcstar 289]

Interesting tweet of the day:David Conn

‏@david_conn

46m

@FootballLaw Proposal, by Ipswich Town, was £16m max spending on wages next year for clubs with parachute payments, £12m for others.

Retweeted by sportingintelligence--So essentially the Football League would destroy any team coming down from the PL.  Purple has suggested our wage costs were around £25m last season, which would have only increased this year.  What would this mean for any team relegated from the PL in the future?  Surely we''d find our team being completely ripped apart?  Funny that this has been suggested by debt ridden ITFC.Scudamore has suggested that if the FL bring these proposals in then PL solidarity payments will be stopped, so I looks like this is a real make or break moment in English football.

[SwindonCanary 455]

Clubs are always going to get around maximum payments for player, it was flouted when there was a maximum wage, by offering ''freebees'' to players 

[Zak Van Burger 0]

 Binner Blubfest, please take a look have a good laugh and move on quietly there''s quite a queue forming.

[chicken 0]

It won''t work.

The Premier League would need to introduce some rules in regards to wages as well or the levels between the two would be two difficult to bridge especially with the increased amount of money in the top flight now.

It might work if they put a time scale on it, for example two seasons to reduce the wage bill to that level, would give teams a chance to try and sell or renegotiate terms or exits for players.

[PurpleCanary 5,557]

[quote user="ncfcstar"]Interesting tweet of the day:David Conn

‏@david_conn

46m

@FootballLaw Proposal, by Ipswich Town, was £16m max spending on wages next year for clubs with parachute payments, £12m for others.

Retweeted by sportingintelligence--So essentially the Football League would destroy any team coming down from the PL.  Purple has suggested our wage costs were around £25m last season, which would have only increased this year.  What would this mean for any team relegated from the PL in the future?  Surely we''d find our team being completely ripped apart?  Funny that this has been suggested by debt ridden ITFC.Scudamore has suggested that if the FL bring these proposals in then PL solidarity payments will be stopped, so I looks like this is a real make or break moment in English football.

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Our player wage bill for the 2011-12 season was £25.2m. But if that seems ultra-low compared to other similar-sized clubs, that is because it isn''t the same figure. The figures you will see quoted nationally (for ourselves and for others) are for overall staff costs. That figure for us was £36.7m.Now whether that £16m figure being suggested Ipswich refers to the obviously lower number for player wages alone or the by definition higher number for all staff costs I don''t know.