{"id":472666,"date":"2023-12-12T19:48:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472666"},"modified":"2023-12-12T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:48:58","slug":"epl-teams-vote-for-5-year-footballer-contract-limit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/epl-teams-vote-for-5-year-footballer-contract-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL teams vote for 5-year footballer contract limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EPL shareholders have voted to limit the length of new footballers&#8217; deals to a max of 5 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 EXCL: Premier League clubs have voted in favour of limiting amortisation of new contracts to maximum of 5 years. Deals can still be longer but amortisation can\u2019t. Previously no cap but PL now in line with UEFA rules. Will not be backdated <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheAthleticFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z5x8WdQSEG\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z5x8WdQSEG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1734577150391468437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Teams have been known to offer footballers long-term deals, as Chelsea did it most recently, as that allows them to spread the cost of transfers over a few years, which helps a lot with the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.<\/p>\n<p>The sides voted on the change at a shareholders&#8217; meeting today and shared that the measure will not be backdated to alter footballer deals that have already been inked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EPL Shareholders today agreed to amend the rule on amortization of footballer registration costs to bring in line with the football governing body&#8217;s rules,&#8221; the Premier League announced today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the future, a 5-year maximum will apply to all new or extended football contracts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, the Blues have given 8-year deals to new players such as Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez, Mykhailo Mudryk, and Mois\u00e9s Caicedo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPL shareholders have voted to limit the length of new footballers&#8217; deals to a max of 5 years. \ud83d\udea8 EXCL: Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":472667,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17886],"acf":{"announce":"The Premier League sides agreed on a new rule.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472669,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472666\/revisions\/472669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472666"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472666"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}