PARIS – President of UEFA, Michel Platini, opposes the idea of Barcelona president Sandro Rosell, the European body that pays the players during the Euro, but not that clubs receive part the benefits of competition.
“We will not pay the players summoned by national team during Euro. However, it is normal that clubs put their players available for competition obtain compensation for the benefits of the Euro, “Platini said in an interview published on Friday evening Le Monde .
The UEFA president warned of the risk that the European football by increased borrowing from the clubs, which grew by 33 percent in 2011 to 1,600 million euros.
” situation is alarming, “said Platini, who indicated that its proposed” financial fair play “imposed maximum debt to the clubs is a way to” save the game. “
“Clearly, if the business rules that apply to other business enterprises shall apply to football long ago that football would be bankrupt,” he said, noting that there are teams that spend more than 100 percent of its budget to pay players’ salaries.
“With the financial fair play clubs know that from now on, there are rules to be met. And they know they can be sanctioned from 2013,” he said.
Platini said
they were “graduated sanctions”, which can range from the prohibition of transfers to the exclusion of the UEFA Champions League.
Thanks to this new system, the clubs will be forced to limit the salary of their players so that the total does not exceed 60 percent of the budget.
