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Apparently the majority of League 1 and 2 clubs want a salary cap introducing and have written to the FL about it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52398548

While I think a salary cap is fair surely this has multiple problems if it is only applied to L1 and L2.

  1. The gap between Championship and L1 will only widen. If you go up will you have to abandon the salary cap or accept there will be clubs with millions more? If the latter than barring a miracle everyone going up will go straight back down
  2. And it's the same in the opposite direction. How will Champ clubs fare if they have to go from a £30m wage bill to a salary cap? Will clubs get sued if they force players to take a pay cut?
  3. Finally how will it affect young talent? There's an argument that if you are Nathan Smith you could get a salary capped wage at Vale or possibly loads more sitting in a Champ club or PL club junior ranks (i.e. this happened with Mitch Clark).

For me, the only solution would be that a salary cap can only work if it is across the board (i.e. all four divisions) because if it only applies to the bottom two divisions there's going to be a big gap opening up. 

I actually think a salary cap is sensible as long as it can avoid legal challenges. It "levels the playing field" which has been unbalanced by TV revenue, rich owners and clubs flouting fair play rules and put the emphasis fair more on managerial skill to sign and mould a team. In other words, back to the days when a Watford, Vale or Crewe could upset things just through a talented manager not because of the riches of their owners.

Not only that but it will go a long way to securing clubs from going bump and possibly even deter "get rich quick" owners looking to make a quick buck and not caring about the long-term future of the club's finances (e.g. Bury). There's less incentive to gamble on huge wages to get promotion etc.

However, I think it's going to take something special for the Championship and PL to agree to such a thing. If they don't I'd be worried if it only applies in the lower two leagues.

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The people with all the power are the players themselves. Not their employers, not even the EFL.

Whilst owners may rightly see this proposed salary cap as a way of drastically cutting expenditure, I doubt very much that the players will have sympathy with their view.


Even in the current climate the majority of players will not even accept a wage deferral let alone a cut and that’s on their present hansome salary, so introducing a much reduced salary cap is a non starter. 

Despite the current situation, players care about one thing and one thing alone. And that’s what goes into their back pocket. Any attempt to introduce a wage ceiling will be resisted with the same gusto as Jimmy Hill campaigned to have it removed in 1961.

It simply will not happen. 

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