Players will 'rightly be angry' at Uefa salary cap idea

Aleksander Ceferin has been president of Uefa since 2016

Players volition "rightly beryllium angry" with Uefa's plans to present a wage cap, says the caput of the Professional Footballers' Association.

However, PFA main enforcement Maheta Molango says "it is not the solution".

"[Players] request to beryllium treated arsenic the astir important stakeholders and cardinal to these conversations," helium said.

"When players work that 'everyone agrees' with capping their wages, I deliberation they volition rightly beryllium angry.

"Without due engagement oregon consultation, players are continually being asked to play much and much games. New competitions are being created and existing tournaments expanded. These each make much wealth wrong football.

"Capping the wages of those who make the 'product' that others proceed to payment from is not a solution to ensuring amended fiscal absorption by leagues and clubs.

"Football's leaders are rapidly going to make a existent occupation if they proceed to dainty players similar this."

The PFA is the commercialized national for nonrecreational footballers successful England and Wales and has much than 5,000 members.

In 2021 it succeeded successful a situation to an autarkic sheet to person squad wage caps of £2.5m and £1.5m successful Leagues One and Two withdrawn.

Ceferin, speaking to US media outlet Men successful Blazers connected Tuesday, said European football's governing assemblage intended to bring successful the wage headdress "as soon arsenic possible".

He said: "For now, we person the caller regularisation aft 2024 that you tin walk up to 70% of your revenues for salaries and transfers, but that's not capable due to the fact that if your revenues are 5 billion, 70% is rather a lot.

"It's not astir the owners. It's astir the worth of the competition, due to the fact that if 5 clubs volition ever triumph past it doesn't marque consciousness immoderate more.

"But it has to beryllium a corporate statement - each league and Uefa. Because if we bash it and the different leagues don't, past it doesn't marque sense."

Uefa is owed to sermon the thought astatine a gathering connected Friday which volition past pb to investigation and consultation, including with the satellite player's national Fifpro.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino spoke astir the anticipation of a wage headdress successful March.