Kosh wrote:
Not quite. Using Watts as an example, his wages while at Rovers count against their total cap liability for the season; now he's with us his wages for the entire season count against our aggregate cap liability. So he kinda overlaps for the period he was at Rovers.
I don't know if this will help, but I'm going to say the same thing in a different way...
At
no point can the wage spend be above the cap as calculated over the year to come. So you can't save cap space early in the season and use it as extra at the end.
So, if the cap is £1.6m and your projected spend at the start of the period is £1.5m, then halfway through you'll have spent £750k. Over the second half of the season you can still only spend £800k, not £850k - because the latter would be like temporarily operating with an annual cap of £1.7m.
So in some ways it is easier to think of a live cap over shorter periods, rather than as annual thing - £133k per month, £30769 per week, these being absolute limits each month/week, not averages.
So using Watts as an example, the proportion of the cap he takes up will be based on his annual salary, not his pay from signing to October (or whenever). To talk about 'this year's cap' is misleading.
I think.