Premier League is fired warning over potential salary cap
Manchester Evening News|September 09, 2024
PREMIER League clubs will be warned against introducing a salary cap in a key speech at today's TUC Congress.
SIMON PEACH
Premier League is fired warning over potential salary cap

Maheta Molango, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, will say that top-flight teams cannot 'cherrypick' the parts of the American system that they like.

His speech also criticises the game's profitability and sustainability rules (PSR), under which he says players are reduced to being 'assets to be moved around on a balance sheet! A majority of Premier League clubs have voted to trial 'top-to-bottom anchoring' (TBA) in the current season, which caps how much teams can spend on squad-related costs as a multiple of the amount of central league funding going to the lowestearning club.

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