Marquee players have to have a salary cap value of £175k under ordinary circumstances. So you couldn’t have someone earning £151k who counts as marquee knocking just a grand off.

So if Pearson signs 6 players from Australia it would be £300k (saving £50k) for marquee minimum, plus whatever the other 4 cost.

It’s also £75k for club trained, which is basically anyone coming through the academy and playing 3 seasons before age of 21 at the club.

£150k covers everyone else English, Australian or whatever nationality. So someone like Westerman would count as £150k.

There's a definitive formula set out to calculate what constitutes a marquee player.


WT£ < P = MP

MC has a marquee Bat phone in his office from which he can advise the rest of SL whether their proposed player qualifies.

So potentially, everyone is a marquee player


Its gonna cost us at least 6k fans to debunk the formula and get that phone cut off, its a drain on resources so think on about missing home games.

Pearson’s probably saying it to keep the Hull fans sweet due to not living up to expectations with being a big club and all that.

To answer the OP, David Fifita, it’s just that nobody noticed it