"We are surprised and deeply disappointed by the new registration rules, which allow clubs, from A to C, to pay only one month's salary, and moreover net, from here to the end of the championship. An absurd behavior and a inadmissible rule that neither we nor the coaches voted ": this is the harsh stance by Umberto Calcagno, vice-president of Assocalciatori, after the Football Association Council set the deadline for registration with a payment obligation at the end of August , according to the AIC, of the month of May only.
"We will evaluate with the players - adds Calcagno - but for B and C we are seriously worried: this is the time that someone really protests".
Government regulations, AIC points out, allow clubs to pay net and not gross; in the event of a dispute (with many clubs that are not willing to pay March and April for the lockdown), for the registration for the next leagues it would be sufficient to pay only the net in May, because the controls for the registration refer only to the salaries until May 31 and later, the control deadline is moved forward, to mid-October.
"The combination of state concessions - Calcagno says - of any disputes and delayed checks would essentially entail this: that the players trained in March, made the lockdown at home following the preparatory programs, return to training, play until August 20, and the real risk is that in five and a half months they only get one salary. "