Salary restrictions part of Platini’s recent proposal

UEFA President Michel Platini has requested that limits be imposed on clubs’ salary budgets. In a proposal recently submitted to the European ministers, Platini suggested that clubs only be permitted to spend between fifty-five and six-five percent of their income on player salaries, as a way of controlling club expenses.

William Gaillard, UEFA Communications Director, believes the restrictions will encourage clubs to curb their spending without a necessity for individual salary caps.

"We know an individual salary cap would be very difficult to enforce in European law but we need to talk to the EC about clubs spending only a percentage of income on salaries," Gaillard said.

"It could be 55 per cent, 60 per cent, 65 per cent - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge [European Club Association (ECA) Chairman ] has spoken of a limit close to fifty percent. has talked recently about 50-55 per cent.

"Michel Platini has said this is what the clubs want and we will support it but we will not enforce it unilaterally."

The G14, recently replaced by the ECA, supported a seventy-percent salary maximum.

In addition to income restrictions, Platini has been pushing for a ban against young player transfers. Gaillard went on to confirm that players under age 18 are being traded to other teams too early, preventing them from being properly trained by their home teams.

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