Coaches and the salary cap
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If you were a player would you feel a bit jipped that you sign up to a salary cap but coaches are outside it?
News today that Ange may get 500k from Brisbane and Arnice wants the same to go to Sydney (the same as what Lavicka was on)
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my understanding is that the salary cap is a player salary cap, the coaching staff is outside it. If the clubs had to include coaches under the cap then you'd see more one man bands like the nix instead of the army that Victory, Sydney etc have
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No, Ange is worth it and Arnold probably is as well. Both of them have turned around weaker teams without great resources and got them playing really attractive and successful football. The players have no right to feel jipped at all.
The only question is whether the salary cap should have a coaching allowance or not. The whole point of it is to keep the competition balanced without the richest clubs gaining too big of an advantage by outspending the smaller clubs. But so far it seems to be working so no need to change imo.
The only question is whether the salary cap should have a coaching allowance or not. The whole point of it is to keep the competition balanced without the richest clubs gaining too big of an advantage by outspending the smaller clubs. But so far it seems to be working so no need to change imo.
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John van 't Schip was on ~AU$700k/year.
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If you were a player would you feel a bit jipped that you sign up to a salary cap but coaches are outside it?
News today that Ange may get 500k from Brisbane and Arnice wants the same to go to Sydney (the same as what Lavicka was on)
Marquee players are also outside the salary cap though, so it's not like coaches are the only exception to the rule.
At the end of the day players aren't coaches. They are in the players market and worth whatever they are worth in that market. If they want to earn what a coach earns (or CEO or physio or whoever for that matter) then they need to change jobs. And if they want to earn more as a player than what they can in the A-League then they need to become a better player (or get a better agent).
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