Starting with the 2022-2023 season, the ASSE will return to the salary cap, depending on Bernard Caiazzo. A decision already widely criticized by a sports economist expert and a sports columnist.
ASSE: The salary cap will keep players away from Sainté?
Credited with sound financial management over the past ten seasons, ASSE continues to oversee its payroll. It has therefore decided to return to the salary cap of 100,000 € maximum, as announced by Bernard Caïazzo. “AS Saint-Étienne, next season, will have eliminated all salaries above 100,000 €. We are going to return to a salary cap as we had at one time. Because it is part of our policy. We think it’s the best possible policy ”, announced the co-president of AS Saint-Étienne to the National Assembly.
This decision by the Saint-Etienne leader has been criticized by Vincent Chaudel, sports economist, in the After Foot on RMC Sport. “Bernard Caïazzo speaks of a ceiling of 100,000 €. Except that the player that Saint-Étienne will want to recruit with this maximum salary, if there is competition with a higher salary, the player will go to that club. That is the problem “, he stressed.
“ASSE’s salary cap is absurd,” MacHardy says
Jonathan machardy, journalist at RMC, considers that “the salary cap of ASSE is absurd. It’s putting a bandage on a wooden leg, “he caricatured. “In principle, it’s interesting. The problem is that Ligue 1 clubs operate in an international market. It is not a silo. There is competition from foreign clubs, ”noted the colleague. For Jonathan MacHardy, going back to the salary cap, “it’s shooting yourself in the foot even more on a European scale. We complain about the results of our French clubs in Europe (excluding PSG), but the salary cap is the worst solution, ”insisted Jonathan MacHardy.