Clyde1998Sutekhtmesis I can't see how that would work exactly.
We just need regulation in place to stop clubs getting into a mess, rather than trying to punish them when it's too late.
We need proper control on the PL and the ridiculous amount of money that gets given to clubs when they are failures. Having compulsory wage reduction on relegation clauses in every single player contract would also be a start. Perhaps each division should also look at salary caps for players (or across a squad of, say, 25 nominated first team players). Seems a much clearer way of maintaining ffp rather getting slide rules out to try and fathom who spent what on average over the last 3 years and all the shenanigans and confusion that that brings.
There won't be salary caps for players unless there's some level of worldwide limit, as players would simply move to a league where they're allowed to earn more money.
Personally couldn't care less and might actually help the English game if not so many foreign players were attracted over here
Clyde1998 Spain has the best FFP rules of those that I'm aware of.
@SwissRamble: "Each season La Liga calculates a club’s salary cap as revenue less non-sporting expenses and debt repayments. In contrast to UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules which look at previous years, La Liga’s regulations are applied in advance, i.e. before any spending takes place."
@SwissRamble: "If a club is over its salary cap, it can only use 25% of any savings made (or transfer gains) on bringing in new players, with the other 75% used to reduce existing liabilities. If the player accounts for more than 5% of squad cost, then amount available to invest rises to 50%."
@SwissRamble: "However, recently La Liga relaxed the salary cap in two important ways as a result of losses caused by the pandemic. First, the 1:4 rule has become 1:3 for the summer 2022 transfer window, i.e. a club can now use 33% of any savings made or transfer profits on player purchases."
Based on the most recent club accounts and my rough estimates (simply looking at revenue minus non-sporting revenue to keep things simple), we would've been allowed to spend around £10.5m under those rules during the 2021-22 season on the squad. IIRC, that was the limit our 'business plan' with the EFL allowed us to spend.
Excellent idea, would be an improvement on what the FL have esp. having them able to be applied in advance.
