Portsmouth chief blasts promoted Coventry, Rotherham and Wycombe being handed League One salary cap vote

However, those clubs relegated from the Championship will not be consulted.

According to Mark Catlin, they are the voting terms as members prepare to decide whether to ratify Football League proposals for a £2.5m wage cap in League One.

As it stands, a working party have taken feedback from various clubs and will now examine whether adjustments are required.

The vote is expected to take place at the end of July, allowing implementation for the 2020-21 season, with new contracts backdated to June 30.

Pompey have been highly vocal in criticism against the concept of a salary cap.

And Catlin is also against the make-up of members who will decide.

He told The News: ‘I am also frustrated and angry that the relegated Championship clubs are not going to have a material effect.

‘I have spoken to seven or eight of the bottom half of the Championship, who would all vote against this, and they are being stopped by voting even though this is the league they are coming into.

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‘How can it be that Coventry, Rotherham and Wycombe get to vote on this and they aren’t even going to be in the league next year? How can that be fair?

‘By the time the vote takes place, those Championship clubs will know their division.

‘However, because the season hasn’t finished for the play-offs, the EFL say their season hasn’t finished so will not allow those three Championship clubs to vote.’

In order to pass salary cap legislation, which also includes 22-man squads, League One requires approval from 16 of its 24 clubs.

That means nine must vote against it – with Pompey and Sunderland leading the opposition.

But Catlin insists they are not alone.

He added: ‘What was leaked out of the last meeting was everyone wanted it apart from Pompey and Sunderland – that wasn’t true.

‘There are more at this moment who would vote against it.

‘But, if you don’t bring the Championship clubs into the mix, to get the required number of nine clubs to vote against it would be difficult.’

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