A wage cap in the Championship?
Italy's Serie B is introducing a salary cap to help stave off financial crisis for its 22 clubs.
Under the system approved Tuesday, contracts signed by players starting July 1 will have a maximum value of €300,000 per season before taxes — divided into a maximum of €150,000 for the fixed part of the contract and a maximum of €150,000 in bonuses.
Serie B president Andrea Abodi says the new rules represent "further steps forward toward financial sustainability of our clubs."
Clubs that violate the cap will receive penalties on their shared income, such as TV revenues. Also, clubs whose youth teams reach the final eight each season will receive monetary prizes.
One in four Serie B players currently have salaries beyond the cap.
So could this work in the Championship?
I think it's a great idea and yes I think it's a good idea to start it in the second tier of English football. Players earn thousands of pounds a week for kicking a piece of leather!
Three hundred thousand Euros still works out to be just over a quarter of a million pounds a year!
I'm not a gambling man but I'll bet the players will want to go on strike claiming bad pay!
At the end of the day, nobody wants to see any club go to the wall and with these measures in place it shouldn't happen.
Owners, Managers and players will all pass through clubs but at the end of the day the fans are the ones that really count. If a club goes bust then you might as well give the fans of that club a kick in the balls.