[Sport] Farewell to salaries “from another planet”: German Federation will ask UEFA for a salary limit

[Dr.Drako]

In Germany they want to put a cap on the salaries of the players and will soon make that request formally. They seek to follow the model of soccer in the United States.

The economic consequences that have hit the clubs due to the coronavirus are just beginning to appear. The president of the German Football Federation (DFB), Fritz Keller, spoke on Tuesday in favor of introducing a salary limit in European football, a proposal that he wants to transfer to UEFA.

"There are absurd salaries and transfer figures, which are no longer admissible," Keller told reporters, joining powerful Bayern Munich president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
 

"We have to talk about salary limits. So we are going to write a letter to UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, "added Keller.
 

Only UEFA can limit wages that are "partly worthy of another planet," said the boss of German football.
 

This measure should also be subject to the regulations of the European Union and can also be applied to the United Kingdom, where the richest clubs in Europe are located, the leader warned.
 

"Michel Platini had the idea a few years ago to introduce a salary cap in Europe, based on the North American model," Rummenigge told Sky channel on Sunday.
 

Platini, president of UEFA between 2007 and 2015, had the support "of all the great clubs in Europe, but we were told that he was not compatible with the competition rules," Rummenigge said.
 

Keller also called for reform of the financial 'fair play'. "We have to make professional football closer to the people," he justified.