Munich chairman threatens Fifa

[saurabh]

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Bayern Munich's chairman has threatened to sue Fifa if they do not pay the wages of his club's international players during the World Cup.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge cited the huge profits that the world governing body make from such tournaments as his reason.

He told WirtschaftsWoche: "Fifa have set up their statutes in such a way that we, the clubs, must release our highly paid players for free.

"With these players, Fifa are making billions in turnover and a huge profit without giving the clubs their fair slice. That is a clear monopoly situation.

"The players earn extra money as they not only continue to be paid by the clubs, but also receive bonuses and extra sponsorship money.

"The only losers are the clubs, who go home with nothing and, in the worst-case scenario, with injured players."

Rummenigge, who represents Bayern in the G14 lobby group of leading European clubs, has laid down proposals for a remuneration package to ease the financial burden on clubs.

He said: "The maths are quite easy - there are 32 teams at the World Cup, all with a squad of 23, which makes a total of around 740 players whose salaries Fifa should be paying."

"The G14 has calculated that Fifa would have to pay around £140 million to
compensate the clubs completely.

"If Fifa cannot make us an acceptable offer, then we will unfortunately have to take this to the courts."

[jr!]

Nonsense!!!


However, a very easy solution to the whole
"he was injured while playing for his national team" argument, is have the National Team pick up the insurance premiums on the insurance policy that protect the teams when a player (the insurance covers his salary whilst injured).
It happens in hockey, why not get with the times and institute this?

[WerderBremenYank]

leave it to bayern.......

[sweed]

leave it to bayern.......

lol gotta love 'em don't ya ;)

[ELLADA]

Coming from a man who has actually played in a World Cup...

Someone please write him an e-mail in German and tell him that if player performs well at a World Cup, then that club's asset increases. I am sure that he will not complain when Ballack is sold to Chelsea, or maybe he will. :)

[sweed]

Coming from a man who has actually played in a World Cup...

Someone please write him an e-mail in German and tell him that if player performs well at a World Cup, then that club's asset increases. I am sure that he will not complain when Ballack is sold to Chelsea, or maybe he will. :)

ballack is leaving for free

[mambo]

No transfer-money but i wouldnt call that for free :D
As far as i know he´ll get the contract that those other Chelsea-Stars already have (7 600 000 € per Season? ) plus alot of hand-money (my guess 15 000 000€).

[ELLADA]

ballack is leaving for free
DOH! :o

[Kult ov Azazel]

I'm sorry, but this guy couldn't be more out of his mind. I think FC Bayern's board members are pissed that Ballack is leaving for free, and now they wanna get some money in any way possible! ;)

[yammy]

Coming from a man who has actually played in a World Cup...

Someone please write him an e-mail in German and tell him that if player performs well at a World Cup, then that club's asset increases. I am sure that he will not complain when Ballack is sold to Chelsea, or maybe he will. :)

That's bollocks.

All it will do is raise the prices all round. The bigger clubs will sell them for more money but they will also pay more for whom they want. The better players already play for big clubs(mostly).

The only benefit is if a player plays for a 3rd/4th division team and there aren't too many of those.

What if a smaller club e.g. Charlton wants to sign someone they like at the WC? They can't afford it if the prices are pushed up.

[krautex]

I agree with Rummenigge.
And for me football is all about clubs, sure it's nice to see the greatest germans play together but the clubs shouldn't have suffer from it in any way.

[chauchey]

I personally, think its only fair that the players get payed by whomever they are playing for at the time. Nobody else, unless its written so in their contract.

If I worked for a secondary employer for a month, and then expected to get a paycheck from my regular boss, when i hadnt put any time in for that month for him, i would be laughed at. And probably gain alot of disrespect around the office as well.

I believe the clubs should simply not have to pay salaries during this time period. simple. thats the way it is in the rest of the world, for everyone else. you dont work, you dont get paid.

[Tiranis]

Exactly what chauchey said... there's just no reason for the clubs to pay the players when they're playing in World Cup, Euro, or any other competition like that. Fifa or the national team should be paying, since at the time they're the closest to being an employer, not the club.

Also there should be a mandatory insurance, because if a players gets injured then the club suffers—they have to be compensated for such things.

[jak914]

Exactly what chauchey said... there's just no reason for the clubs to pay the players when they're playing in World Cup, Euro, or any other competition like that. Fifa or the national team should be paying, since at the time they're the closest to being an employer, not the club.

Also there should be a mandatory insurance, because if a players gets injured then the club suffers—they have to be compensated for such things.
This is all completely true and should be done like has been said.

[Godfather]

It's sad to see that even in this forum there are so many people who can only take a strict business view of football. In his narrow little mind Rumenigge just can't see the big picture. If Drogba gets injured at the World Cup should the Ivory Coast football association go bankrupt just to make sure that poor clubs like Chelsea or the Gay-14 can stick more money in their ass? And what do we want next? National teams who start buying players from other countries, so that we will have 300 Brazilians playing for China, Japan, Germany and the USA every World Cup? National teams and their competitions are not totally contaminated by football business yet. So try to keep it up!

[narduch]

If the assholes at the G-14 get their way, International football will be ruined.

Poorer nations will not be able to afford to call up their best players, making a mockery of the entire system.

If this does happen, I will simply stop following the sport all together.

The big clubs are greedy. I'm tired of hearing the rich clubs whine about how they should be richer.

[ZeekLTK]

Hey here's an idea for a club, don't buy players who are on national teams if you don't want to put up with international competitions. No one is twisting Chelsea's arm to have Drogba and Crespo as their starters instead of two other guys who won't be going to the World Cup this summer. No one is forcing Bayern to use German (and other) internationals in their roster. They choose to do so, so they pay the consequences.