Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Trapped in a golden cage Premier League

Klopp is the same after he have the "obsession" criticized this month with the transfer of England. However, both men are exceptions. Most of the enormous sums of English clubs for new players will be issued, as something to celebrate, evidence of the power of the Premier League. Every year, on the day of the deadline, the television channel Sky Sports News keeps a count of the gross expenditure of 20 clubs in the corner of the screen. The view of the black gold counters always creeps up dealing more frequently associated with charity telethons with the kind of pleasure. discusses the purchase of football as a virtue.

But Schweinsteiger and Balotelli - like Joe Hart, Manchester City goalkeeper, who do not contemplations of Pep Guardiola was deposed and has finished moving to Turin, the 12th place in Serie A last Italian season on the verge of a loan - you provide a sober reminder there is another side of this unprecedented financial power.

"There are a handful of teams in the Premier League, which are under great pressure to buy players," José María Cruz, general manager of the Spanish team Sevilla. "You pay a lot of money, and therefore need an immediate return on investment, but require players to execute immediately.

"If they do not, they are already looking for a replacement after three or six months. But try to download the player, they wanted more is not very complicated, because wages are so high. They are for most clubs Europe not realistic ".

Seville, for example, has the fifth highest paid player in Spain. Thanks to a series of three consecutive wins Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League Cruz may authorize higher than most of his colleagues wages. The market for the Premier League, but still too expensive.

This is certainly the case, Schweinsteiger and Hart, who earn more than $ 200,000 a week. Balotelli is much lower, but their salary £ 90,000 per week (about $ 118,000) continue to exclude a lot of equipment, loaded especially for a player with luggage.

Even more troubling, the likes of Emmanuel Rivière, an ordinary or French striker in Newcastle plans are relegated compensated so rich from their current teams, it is hard to let go. A £ 40,000 per week - a little more than $ 52,000 - Rio earned almost twice as Newcastle as one of the clubs who might be tempted to sign, could afford to. As Wenger said, now it is in fact "two markets, one of the English clubs and one for the rest of Europe."

For Cruz, there are two possible solutions for clubs and in the street without money relations caught players. The first is China, where clubs Super League soaked cash in the country are ready to meet - and even improve, in some cases - offered in England wages. The other is an increase in the subsidized loan agreements. The only way to take the players from the Premier League, Cruz said, "is to share their salaries."

That is, rightly, unattractive to the owners of the Premier League. Even in the age of financial excesses, pay the players potential rivals to play is a bridge too far. However, you can be better than the alternative, which pays millions not play. But also these solutions do not solve the underlying problem.

"You crazy pay salaries for mediocre players," Christian Heidel, manager longtime German club Mainz, now with Schalke, told team last year to change.

"They will fight to get rid of these players in the future. You buy each year more players and squads become too large. You will be more layoffs to spend at the end, as they do on transfers".

The consequences, according to Wenger could be serious, and said that there is a danger that "English clubs can choke in the long run."

It is a future in cases considered as Balotelli, Schweinsteiger and Hart are not abnormal, but an integral part of the English game, regrets expensive equipment drain money from their mothers.

"This means that the economic benefits of the English clubs will fall," said Wenger. "You pay for 10 or 12 players who went elsewhere because their wages clubs can not pay."

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