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What if we lowered the salaries of footballers?

2021-02-19T05:58:31.484Z


DECRYPTION - The subject is no longer taboo but it is far from unanimous: some clubs have started to pay their players less in order to achieve budgetary savings made necessary by the epidemic crisis and its consequences. A false good idea or a real solution?


In the storm that French football is going through, between a main broadcaster - Mediapro - deadbeat, vilified and forced to go out of business, TV rights in dizzying fall ("only" 650 million euros for the current season paid by Canal + instead of the expected billion) and financial statements in bright red for the forty professional clubs (20 in Ligue 1, as many in Ligue 2), a question occupies all minds.

Which lever (s) to activate to try to lighten an already salty note?

While waiting for the return of the auspicious and happy days (paying public in the stadiums, again flourishing TV rights, juicy transfers ... and fresh money in the cash registers), the subject, hot and explosive, of the decline has gradually imposed itself. player salaries.

Miracle solution or real chimera?

Band-aid on a wooden leg, necessary although insufficient or pure demagoguery?

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Source: lefigaro

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