Our good friend Mr Parry is still proposing salary caps to come in supposedly for next season but actually with a years' grace. The proposed levels are tiny at £2.5m for L1 and £1.5m for L2 - even we would have breached it this past season with our poor squad!
They are also suggesting a vote on a maximum 20 player squad of which 8 would be home grown youngsters....
That would definitely scupper MM's historical preferences on a largeish squad of veterans - he will have to change tack and look more favourably on youth players than he has ever historically done with us.
I was also wondering what are the likely short term implications given there will be so many players available as free agents. The law of unintended consequences would suggest that clubs that still have money would bring in relatively top quality players on big bucks but only on 1 year contracts to "buy" their way to promotion safe in the knowledge that if they succeed they have tonnes of headroom if promoted to Championship (£16m extra) and £1m headroom if promoted to L1... but safe in the knowledge that if they do get promoted they will not be out of their depth financially as all clubs will be capped...
Salford et al will be even more incentivised to spend big this close season on that basis sad to say...
They are also suggesting a vote on a maximum 20 player squad of which 8 would be home grown youngsters....
That would definitely scupper MM's historical preferences on a largeish squad of veterans - he will have to change tack and look more favourably on youth players than he has ever historically done with us.
I was also wondering what are the likely short term implications given there will be so many players available as free agents. The law of unintended consequences would suggest that clubs that still have money would bring in relatively top quality players on big bucks but only on 1 year contracts to "buy" their way to promotion safe in the knowledge that if they succeed they have tonnes of headroom if promoted to Championship (£16m extra) and £1m headroom if promoted to L1... but safe in the knowledge that if they do get promoted they will not be out of their depth financially as all clubs will be capped...
Salford et al will be even more incentivised to spend big this close season on that basis sad to say...