Question. If we loan a player and the Club loaning the player agree to pay his wages while he is with us, does this count towards our salary cap. My thinking is it would be classed as a guest appearance? Also along the same lines.. Do we have a parent club where they provide us up and coming quality youth players to get them first team football experience
Loans are outside of salary cap (from memory)
13.15 Player Payments include (but are not limited to):
(f) for a player loaned to the Club during the Contract Year - the higher amount of either remuneration paid to the Player by the club or the pro rata proportion of the Minimum A-League Remuneration; and
http://www.pfa.net.au/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/Variation_of_A-League_CBA_2008_9_-_2012__13_-_Binding_Sheet__August_2011__01.pdf
Anything we pay them counts. If we pay them less than the A-League minimum wage, they still get calculated at the minimum wage.