Israeli football prepares to return to routine: Clubs cut back on players' contracts, expecting state financial compensation following the Corona crisis

• Betar training. Big club owners: "No paychecks of 400-300,000 euros" 

  Photo: 

  Alan Shaver

The Premier League football is expected to resume on May 30, but club leaders are already beginning to think about next season - and that is split into two: state compensation money, but also streamlining and a substantial change in the amounts paid so far in Israeli football.

The groups demand compensation from the state of NIS 90 million for the losses they have suffered so far from the Corona crisis. Sports Minister Miri Regev assured the team representatives that until Tuesday, a meeting will be held with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as ensuring that the groups will be distributed. However, clubs are pessimistic about the amount they will receive.

Israeli commentators today are preparing for the league's return

In addition, internal talks with the administration also made it clear to big club owners that "300 or 400,000 euros of salaries will not be paid soon." A Maccabi Haifa official even told "Israel Today": "Some of the group's owners approached Jacob Dawn and told him he had long foreseen. The sums that were here were excessive, and it is a pity that only such a crisis has revealed the wastefulness that has raged here in recent years."

After all the league teams have cut this season, they will once again ask the players to agree to a pay cut this summer. Regev said the amounts presented to her were excessive, as far as the Premier League is concerned, and the team owners agree with her.

Those who pay the price will be the players - the ones who will have to play two games a week by the end of the season, and they will have a home isolation obligation for the next two months. They will have to go to training directly from home and be banned from leaving for non-football related matters. The teams were also instructed to send a clear and clear message to the players: "Everything will rise and fall for your health." A manager in the administration said: "A player who does not comply with the guidelines and can apply can lock the league. Nobody will take risks. Everything is on their shoulders and they understand that."

The big clubs lost a total of more than NIS 30 million - only in the top playoff games. The reason: the fact that it will take place without a crowd in the stands. A senior league official said: "The top playoffs should have been the teams' bonanza. They built on millions from ticket sales. The teams have lost tens of millions, and must help them. There are groups supported by local authorities that have stopped allocations because of business property taxes. Economic - they will be in a state of disintegration. "

As previously mentioned, the economic issue is what most of the groups are worried about, and so are the members of the leagues administration board. During the discussion, Maccabi Tel Aviv board member, attorney Moran Meiri, argued that according to the recent FIFA document, the teams could unilaterally cut players' wages if they prove that the cut was due to the Corona crisis. Things - teams that have not yet reached an outline with the players about returning to activity for a cut (Hapoel Hadera) will be able to do so at their discretion.

Her room will hold a meeting today with players who are still in the US. Ness Ziona does not know which of the players will be in service when the league resumes, as all her foreigners are abroad and need to return to isolation. The rest have not yet returned to full training.

Last night, Hapoel players and the club's management reached a conclusion on a transversal cut in wages, which varies according to the height of the players' salaries returning to training this morning.