We have seen how millions of dollars have thrown by popular football clubs, having good financial back, to buy players from around the world. Last summer, transfer window showed what it could gain you if you are a young and promising soccer player. English premier league’s topmost team’s longest serving manger: Arsene Wenger has slashed on the clubs who are voluntarily throwing million of dollars to buy top players. According to him, this is ruining football coz at last football is going to suffer for all this. He gave an example of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club aka PSG who bought young nineteen years old Brazilian attacking midfielder Lucas Moura for £36 million. He calls it a crazy move by the club. Basically, according to him, this is the good era of soccer but this is not going to be lasted as it is now, coz big club’s giant sponsors are all concerned with their balance sheets at last, so they are encashing the rising popularity of soccer and its biggest branded players.
According to UEFA’s recent Financial Fair Play Rules where more than 23 clubs cannot spend more than their incomes to win, he is hopeful to have more level playing fields across all playing clubs irrespective of their buyout price tags. He further added and criticized Manchester city’s 400 million sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways, which, according to him, will raise club’s income unrealistically. How he takes this sponsorship deal is, “If the sponsorship deals are just a way of getting around financial fair play, then it’s not financial fair play.”
Notably, Arsene Wenger is one of the most respected and long running soccer personalities and if he is saying something that surely deserves a note of attention. Today, soccer world is fast changing into gambling world where big corporates are showing their biased interests to achieve their own planned goals. So, it’s upto the clubs and regularity authorities how they control this money raining atmosphere into a level playing field where every player can have a level playing field irrespective of his fees tag. Even many clubs or rather many countries have already started doing their bits to avoid over optimized money into their games. For now, the current scenario can be looked like a mouthwatering ambience for everyone, but in long run it is going to harm soccer as a sport, as it felt by the Arsene Wenger now.