{"id":29583,"date":"2024-04-29T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/premier-league-clubs-agree-salary-cap\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:00:22","slug":"premier-league-clubs-agree-salary-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/premier-league-clubs-agree-salary-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League clubs agree salary cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Premier League clubs on Monday, voted in favour of a proposal that would impose restrictions on spending on transfers, wages and agent fees, the UK Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal will limit spending for top clubs to a fixed amount that the bottom side receives in TV money.<\/p>\n<p>It was a unanimous vote, which was achieved with the necessary majority of 14 votes.<\/p>\n<p>At the Premier League shareholders\u2019 meeting, the proposal got the support of 16 of the 20 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City, Manchester United and Aston Villa voted against it. Chelsea opted to abstain.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that stopping clubs from spending so freely will create a more competitive Premier League, rather than one that is dominated by only one or two extremely wealthy clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League clubs agree salary cap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League clubs on Monday, voted in favour of a proposal that would impose restrictions on spending on transfers, wages&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1692,160],"tags":[1145,180,1694,201],"class_list":["post-29583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","category-sport","tag-league","tag-news","tag-premier","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}