GM’s want transparency
Courtesy Globe and Mail:
The CFL’s salary management system has been widely praised for forcing teams to adhere to its $4.2-million cap and helping ensure competitive balance across the league.
But several general managers believe the league needs to make the free-agent bidding process more transparent in order to erase any doubt about what is being paid to some players and keep teams from unnecessarily driving up salaries.
Montreal Alouettes general manager Jim Popp said this free-agent period has involved considerable disparity between what players and agents claim they are being offered by certain teams and then what’s eventually written on the contracts filed with the league.
All of which he says fuels doubts about who’s telling the truth and whether teams are fully disclosing what’s being paid to a particular player.
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