La Liga has announced a series of changes in the salary limit rules, which determine how much club can spend on their squadrons, and which players' contracts they can register for the season. Their latest changes again prefer more expenditure for the Spanish clubs.
As is the case for this season, clubs that are about their salary limit can now spend 60% of what they save (70% for a player with a salary of more than 5% of the wage account, a franchise player) or 20% of what they bring in from players 'deviations (30% for' franchise players), but there are now a number of exceptions on the rule. One of the most important changes is that La Liga parties can now sign players under 24 who have already been to the club for three consecutive seasons and to strengthen them, until the end of the season to find the money in their salary limit to do this. If they fail to come up with the difference, that money will be taken from their salary limit for the following season.
That is to encourage parties to protect their Academy talents and to hand over new deals. In addition, women's football will be allowed further flexibility, with a maximum of € 2 million or up to 2% of the total income that can be set to a ladies team without being deducted from their salary limit. Moreover, La Liga has adopted a UEFA rule that dictates that players' contracts can only be moored for a maximum of five years, and four for clubs that are above their salary limit.
However, the same clubs above their limit may register a maximum of three players, one via transfer, two on a free transfer, with their impact on the salary limit only a single season counted, again facilitating the expenditure restrictions. The clubs will then have until the end of the year to find the money to register the rest of their contracts.
Perhaps the biggest change is to impose a minimal salary limit. Clubs in Primera receive a minimum salary limit of 30% of their turnover, and in Segunda 40% of their turnover, to ensure that clubs remain competitive. However, if a club consistently exceeds that minimum limit year after year, CEO Javier Gomez noted that they would be degraded.
This will be good news for Espanyol and Sevilla, who have salary limits of € 7.8 million and € 0.7 million respectively. Another important beneficiary of this rule will probably be Barcelona. They are confronted with handing over a large new contract to Lamine Yamal this summer when he turns 18, and the new rule under 24 will give them back in Camp Nou to increase their income sufficiently to register his deal.