West Ham United management have decided to climb down from a push to introduce a strict wage cap.

The Guardian says some had feared that the new West Ham United owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, in tandem with the vice-chair, Karren Brady, would institute a strict salary cap that would prevent incoming players earning above a certain weekly wage, with the ceiling pegged at around £25,000.

But it is understood that the owners are allowing themselves more leeway than that and are aiming instead for a 60% wages-to-turnover ratio that will give them the ability to be more flexible in offering larger deals to free transfer targets, for example.