NICK CAIN
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There is a complete contradiction at the heart of the English Premiership having a salary cap at the same time as allowing a marquee player exclusion clause.
It is typical of the Premiership’s muddled, damaging management contortions that it endorses a socialist level-field financial mechanism like a £5 million salary cap on one hand, and yet on the other allows a limitless capitalist spending spree on marquee players who are excluded from the cap.
The irony is an attempted veil of secrecy where nobody is meant to know who the marquee players a...