Preston North End boss Alex Neil has backed the calls for clubs who furlough staff and defer wages to be prevented from signing players in the next transfer window.
A number of Championship clubs, including Leeds United and Brentford, have introduced cost-saving methods amid the coronavirus crisis that has led to an indefinite suspension of the EFL.
Concerns have been raised about clubs taking such action and then splashing the cash in the transfer window, which has led to some belief that clubs utilising that approach should not be allowed to be active in the market - which has been backed by Neil.
"If people are taking wage cuts or deferrals then people are putting cases forward that they shouldn't be allowed to sign any other players," he told Lancs Live.
"Because if they can't currently pay the players they have got then why should they then be allowed to use the money they have deferred from wages to then invest in their squad to bring better or more players in?
"I don't think that clubs who have run their finances in an organised and good manner should then be hampered and hamstrung when other teams are maybe slashing wages and then the window opens and we get out-bid for a player that they have brought with money that they have deferred from another player.
"That cannot be fair. So it will be really interesting to see how that comes out in the wash."
