'No stopping Dreyfus' red and whites now!': Sunderland fans react to 'huge' EFL salary cap announcement

The rules were introduced last summer and limited Sunderland and their League One rivals to an annual wage spend of £2.5 million.

The Black Cats were firmly against the measure, which affected their transfer business both last summer and in the recent January window.

The PFA challenged the rules, arguing that the EFL had failed in their remit to consult properly with the Professional Football Negotiating and Consultative Committee when introducing the cap.

As a result of the successful challenge, League One clubs will revert to the less stringent Salary Cost Management Protocols for the time being.

Those rules say that a club can only spend 60% of its turnover on wages, but wners can inject equity to support turnover.

And the news was met positively by Sunderland fans, who had this to say on social media:

@ConnorM1702 said: “Huge for #SAFC might give Johnson that extra bit of time with the players who will get us out of this league and make the project viable”

@afootyeducation added: “Wow – it’s not a scrapping of the salary cap as such but we now know it cannot carry on in its current form. A big and encouraging announcement this one!”

@notch_23_ posted: “Rightly so. Should be based on revenue generation percentage which encourages clubs to generate more income and increase their budgets.”

@pjennings73pj commented: “Too late now the windows shut, job done by the EFL.”

@maximusthomas tweeted: “Get the contracts tied up now”

@JHerra18 added: “Sunlin back in the premier league by 2023. No stopping Dreyfus’ red and whites now”

@SpeakSAFC posted: “Huge news. Means we can offer some of our most important higher earning players a new contract”

@PeterJWhalen7 said: “Huge news for #safc. Should never have been put in place to begin with!”

@RokerReport tweeted: “The salary cap news is huge. It enables us to offer contracts to players like Hume, O’Nien and Willis that we otherwise wouldn’t be able to unless we got promoted.”

@windynookmackem added: “Common sense prevails”

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