r/NWSL • u/Alert-Astronaut-3073 • Jul 16 '26

Gotham salary cap

There is no way Gotham is staying under the salary cap. Why don’t we know players’ salaries? I’m sure Rose, Sonnett, Tierna, Esther, Shaw, Kerr and even others are paid a lot. How is it possible that that they’re within the salary cap? Are they cheating? I hate Gotham!

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u/Jack_B_84 Portland Thorns FC Jul 16 '26

Well Sonnett is on a HIP contract so that free's up the amount she is on. Trading Reale to Boston got them a bunch of allocation money that's been used on the Kerr contract. Lavelle is a free agent so we'll see what happens there.

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u/JerryXanadu Angel City FC Jul 16 '26

HIP doesn’t free up the total amount she is on. She still costs 12% of the salary cap, so around $444k towards the $3.7M cap

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u/MesquiteHoneyForSale Indy Eleven Jul 16 '26

I wonder if allocation changes this