The PFA are ready to reconsider their opposition to salary caps, despite winning a landmark legal ruling that prevented their introduction in League One and League Two earlier this year.
The players’ union successfully argued in front of an independent arbitration panel that the EFL had breached rules by seeking to introduce salary caps this season without proper consultation, leading the planned wage-bill ceilings of £2.5millon and £1.5m in League One and Two respectively to be scrapped.
In addition to unhappiness at the changes being rushed through during the pandemic, the PFA’s initial hostility was based on their opposition to a fixed cap, which would have forced Sunderland into having the same wage bill as Fleetwood in League One for example.