Mike Hughes":y9t72x68 said:
He seems to have stuck to his guns regarding agent involvement and not breaking the wage structure. Looks like his other board members want to gamble a bit more.
it's an admirable idea to have a 10k wage cap but to be realistic agents and players know what sort of cash is around when a team makes it to the premiership and know they could sign for another club for double that.
This just goes to show that unless a wage cap of some form becomes compulsory you're fighting a losing battle trying to pioneer it on your own.
When you see a club trying to operate sensibly vs. cardiff paying a player 50k pw in the division below it makes me sad. Because the sensible approach will never be allowed to succeed and the premier league will probably be glad to see the back of upstarts like blackpool but will roll out the red carpet for a side as fiscally irresponsible as cardiff as they will throw their money at enough players to make their sky matches a bit more interesting. Pompey will be forgotten and no lessons will be learnt until a more 'fashionable' side goes to the wall properly.