UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin vowed on Wednesday to
reform the transfer system to stem the talent flow towards the richest clubs,
AFP reports.
“We’ll develop something akin to tax on luxury goods or
limits on squad size,” Ceferin said on the sidelines of a UEFA congress in Portugal.
“This would be done to stop one or two clubs gathering all
the best players to their team,” he added. “We cannot allow the size of a few
clubs to drown out the smaller ones.”
In a January report UEFA said there had been a dramatic
shift of talent and finance towards richer clubs over the past six years.
Figures in that report said the top 15 clubs in Europe had
seen their financial turnover increase 148 percent in that time while for the
other 700 clubs this increase had been just 17 per cent.
Ceferin has also vowed that there will be no European super
league formed under his watch.
The UEFA chief added that football officials should not be
afraid to embrace technology and that lessons can be learned from big business.
“We should approach Silicon Valley and understand the
strategies of the big technology innovation companies,” he said.
“We cannot live in fear of them, or fail to understand them
because we ourselves do not. They must be our ally, because they are already
our children’s ally.”
“UEFA has the greatest football on earth — and why not allow
everyone to maximise their experience and taste of it? We can bring our fans
into the game.”
The proposed reforms over good governance will be voted upon
by Europe’s national associations at next month’s UEFA Congress in Helsinki.
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