I don’t want to bore people, (I usually do), but the Salary Cost Management Protocol (Financial Fair Play Rules), are an important aspect of the game and what impact those rules have on Morecambe FC restricts what the Club can do.
The SCMP requirement is whereby a Club’s Player-Related Expenditure shall not exceed the sum of 60% or 50% of the Clubs Relevant Turnover for League 1 and League 2 Clubs.
The assessment is made on the 12 month period of the last relevant Clubs recorded Annual Accounts.
Charlie Appelyard alluded to this in Freez’s podcast and what it means to Morecambe FC. He was saying even if JW sold the Club it would not alter what the Club has as a budget to spend on bringing in players as it is restricted by the rules.
So as for any new owners, they could therefore not throw mega amounts of money at the Club over and above the assed amount that was calculated for Morecambe FC.
Hopefully I have understood the situation regarding the SCMP rules as explained in the podcast, however this begs the question, what will the budget be next year if it is based on our Annual Accounts we file for this year?
Charlie was clear getting rid of JW will not will not change that and would rather the fans continue getting behind the team rather than thinking about protest.
I suppose you can say he would say that and that is a fair point but as the relationship between the BoD’s collapsed (apparently they are back working together in the pursuit of selling the Club), the relationship between the fans and JW is still fractious.
I think most would agree the BoD’s compared to many other Clubs they do a good job considering their operating restriction they work under.