Roar coach John Aloisi wants A-League salary cap scrapped

With a new FFA board having been elected this week, John Aloisi sees the timing right for total change. And that means dumping the salary cap, which he sees as failing to create an even competition.

Brisbane Roar coach John Aloisi says the salary cap should go. Picture: AAP

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Brisbane Roar coach John Aloisi wants the A-League salary cap scrapped, claiming it fails to fulfil its purpose of creating an even competition.

Aloisi said with a new Football Federation Australia board having been elected this week, the time was right to revamp and expand the A-League.

“Two more teams, salary cap gone, transfer system back in ... that’s what I think should happen,” he said.

Aloisi said that while abolishing the cap would not necessarily create a level-playing field, it would lead to transparency.

Brisbane Roar coach John Aloisi says the salary cap should go. Picture: AAP

“People out there think the salary cap (means) an even league. It should be, but it’s completely not,” Aloisi said.

A-League clubs are permitted to pay two “designated” or marquee players outside the cap of $3.063 million.

Other ways clubs can use non-cap money are via rules for players in guest, homegrown, loyalty, mature age and scholarship categories.

“Forty per cent of payments to players is outside the salary cap,” Aloisi said.

“A marquee player for another side is on $3 million, that’s virtually our whole salary cap, so how is that an even league? It’s not. Get rid of the salary cap.

“We’ve got three or four clubs that want to spend a lot of money because that’s what they want to do, that’s their focus on how they are going to win.

“Other clubs have to do it in a different way, we have to produce young players, we have to make sure our academies are good ... bring transfer systems back in so then there’s money coming back into the club that does focus on that.

“We need to make sure that changes happen very soon for the game to keep on progressing, but at the moment, it seems like we’ve hit a little bit of a flat spot.”

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Originally published as Roar coach John Aloisi wants A-League salary cap scrapped