But he is joing the most famous club in the world etc etc!

Man Utd?

But his salary until the end of the season wouldn't be £150 K.

That's irrelevant, not how the cap works now. If you pay a player £75k for 6 months work, he'll eat up £150k on the cap.

No!

I Don't think that's quite right!

Yes! I think it is!

Have YOU read Salary Cap Regulations Clause 5.4.2? No? Thought not.

What do you mean "No"?

The salary cap rules are there for everybody to read.


Whether Wigan pay Gleeson £30k this year and £220k the year after is a different story.

Correct!

Read what SEB put, That's what I said was Wrong!

If Wigan sign a contract with him 3rd April for 60k for this year that's what goes on the cap, he may be on 150k or whatever next year!

SEB was saying if we pay him 60k now you must Pro Rata that for the whole year, that isn't correct!

Wow, that would eat up cap for 2010!

5.4.2 where the Club proposes to register a Player part-way through the Salary
Cap Year, the RSCM shall calculate the Salary Cap Value of the Player, in
accordance with the usual principles, as if the Player was employed by the
Club for the entire Salary Cap Year.
Comment to Clause 5.4.2: For example, where a Player enters into a Playing Contract
with a new Club commencing on 1 June (ie 6 months into the Salary Cap Year) and
providing that he will (for the remaining six months of the Salary Cap Year): (i) be paid
a Gross salary of £5,000 per month; (ii) receive benefits to the Gross value of £1,000
per month; and (iii) be paid £250 per appearance, for the purposes of the Regulations,
the Salary Cap Value for that Player, as at the date of joining the new Club, will be
£76,500, calculated as follows:
(i) £60,000 (ie £5,000 salary per month x 12 months);
(ii) £12,000 (ie £1,000 benefits per month x 12 months); and
(iii) £4,500 (ie £250 per appearance x 18 assumed appearances, in
accordance with clause 5.6.3, below).