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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2850755, member: 8215"] The cap appears as if it's going up maybe 25%. But it's still not settled. And will likely have to stretch to a top 30, not 25. And yet clubs are offering 50 - 100% payrises to players in order to poach them. It's insanity, and I include the Bird signing in there. It's already messing with our cap. But clubs like Newcastle are going to get a rude shock in a year or two when their big $$ players aren't performing as well as they'd hoped for. And, like a crazy cycle, they'll end up tight on the cap, try to offload these players or other players and have to do it on the cheap (like Korbin Sims), be paying out portions of players' contracts while they run around elsewhere, and then because they can't compete they'll try to pay overs to poach new players again. Repeat. The best thing we can do is be sensible about it. Not getting in to bidding wars for promising yet unproven (Herman) or injury-prone (Moga) players is a good start. It means we'll have room to move when all these overpaid players are forced out of their cap-hitting clubs, and we'll be able to get them on the cheap to fill in the gaps. [/QUOTE]

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