Cheif executive
of Borussia Dortmund, Hans Joachim Watzke, believes that football clubs such as
Manchester City should be expelled by UEFA.
As German teams
have a control on their budgets and are owned 51% by club supporters, they see
their rival clubs having an advantage by having financing from wealthy
individuals.
The example is Manchester City, they have benefitted from their wealthy owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. They have been able to have a 350 million pound stadium and get a sponsor throught contacts of the owner.
UEFA want to
have the financial fair play, Watzke see’s deals like this to go against it and
believes that this is unfair advantage. He has informed authorities that huge
spending as such must be stopped. UEFA must avoid this ‘back door funding’.
Financial fair
play will not work if money is being pumped into a club with sponsorship from 5
companies the owner controls.
Watzke said that
he would ‘not even welcome’ Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan “What if the sheikh, as
shown by Malaga, lost interest?”
In my opinion, the UEFA should sanction drastically all the teams who don't play with the rules of the Financial Fair Play. This will encourage teams to be sustainable during a long period of time.
RépondreSupprimerWatzke knows how this could end up because Borussia Dortmund had 250 million of debt in 2005. If the Financial Fair Play would be implemented in 2014, then it is the duty of the UEFA to avoid back door funding and other wholes in the new rules. This would be a big challenge for them.
As you said, the Bundesliga has already the 50+1 rule and we can see that most of the German Club are in a good financial situation.
This gives hope for the Financial Fair Play, first to stop the financial doping and second to keep a sustainable structure.
As a Dortmund fan I encourage the UEFA to implement the rule:)
I agree. I mean I see where Manchester City are coming from though, if you are able to spend millions on players why not do so. However, this goes against the whole financial fair play and should be stopped. Although it is a challenge, UEFA does need to stop this backdoor funding. If they don't there will be an unbalance due to the unfair advantage.
RépondreSupprimerWe are talking about that this is unfair, and it certainly is. But isnt it as unfair that the big teams, like Madrid and Barcelona, gets almost all of the money from the media rights? It feels that its a way of economical doping aswell. As long as this continue maybe teams like City and Malaga need owners that put in immense numbers of money? // Fredrik Norberg
RépondreSupprimerIt is infair that Barcelona and Madrid gets most of the money from the media rights whereas the other teams don't. This is why it can be argued that teams such as Malaga and Man CIty need to receive money from other sources as you mentioned, and private funding gives them a way to compete in the leagues. At the end of the day, I guess it depends on the team you are supporting, if it is advantageous then you would say that funding is fine. Overall, I would say that the media rights should not just be focused on the main teams and private funding should have a limit. This would be the most fair.
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