Pot Kettle Black

Originally Posted by Maribor

Care to outline which players are not on full time contracts.......

I'd say its more of a handful who are on part-time contracts, from what I can gather Hutton, Beckett, Martyn, McHugh are the only ones I can think of on part-time. The rest I think are full-time, maybe you can correct me?

I thought this thread was going to be about people who use the phrase "the words pot, kettle and black spring to mind" need to be deported.

I wonder will any proper ambitious club stay under the 65% limit next year?

Originally Posted by GavinZac

I wonder will any proper ambitious club stay under the 65% limit next year?

That's just oxymoronic.

In our league there is generally always a few clubs spending huge amounts of money that they don't really have on players, and this forces other clubs to try to keep up with them. Clubs that run their affairs properly are effectively penalised. The thing about the 65% wage cap is that if implemented fairly and effectively it should see one of the league's traditional main problems addressed- that every penny is spent on players and next to nothing on facilities and development. I seriously doubt whether that many players will move abroad even if wage levels drop, so we'd end up with more or less the same players and on field product and more money spent on developing the clubs. In the long term as clubs develop they should be able to increase their turnover and hence playing budgets.

The biggest question is whether it can or will be implemented properly though.

Originally Posted by GavinZac

I wonder will any proper ambitious club stay under the 65% limit next year?

What's the punishment, if any, for going over the limit?

varies depending on your overspend and if it was deliberate ranging from fines, points deduction through to relegation and expelled from eufa competitions.