Andy Gilder wrote:Given the new live cap, the only way you can breach it is by making a deliberate attempt to circumvent the cap either by false accounting or under the counter payments.
My understanding is that this is exactly the accusation.
It became known in Puletua's tribunal that he had one contract with Salford and one with another company owned by Marwan Koukash. This isn't necessarily a breach of the cap, but it would be if the second contract was not disclosed to the RFL and therefore the payments not accounted for on the live cap. Ultimately, the accusation is that the club were deceitful and we're paying players through third party companies but not disclosing these.
I imagine that since this became known in the Puletua tribunal, the RFL have been looking into how many players had similar arrangements and therefore how far over the salary cap Salford were in those two years.
Koukash always said he would break the salary cap deliberately, but it seems he has been caught. To me, the most ridiculous thing is that he wanted players to keep quiet about the additional contracts but then seemed to go out of his was to annoy them as much as possible!
