Wenger predicts the end of transfer system
-
Wenger is not happy about players being able to leave clubs so easily
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has predicted that the football transfer system could collapse altogether if increasing levels of power are given to players. Wenger is worried that the game is about to move into a phase where players will only commit themselves to a club for one year contracts and will be continually looking to switch teams looking for the most lucrative financial package.
The Gunners have already lost midfielder Mathieu Flamini to AC Milan on a free transfer this summer and could be without Alexander Hleb next year as well, with the Belarusian hoping to secure a move abroad.
Wenger fears that the increasing number of laws that allow a player to get out of his contract will cause a complete collapse of the current system. "A team sport needs time and stability and all the rules in our game go against that," he told the Sunday Telegraph. Wenger alluded to the case of former Wigan and Hearts defender Andy Webster, who won a ground breaking case that allowed him to buy himself out of his contract.
That ruling now allows players buy out their contracts if they have completed three years of a four or five-year contract and are under the age of 28. If they are over 28, they can do so after two years. Hleb is in a position where he could buy out his contract but has said he will not do so.
"At the moment it's either three years or two but believe me, soon someone will challenge that and ask why at 28 years old and not, say, at 27," said Wenger. "And then it will be why after two years and not one? Once you get to that stage, the transfer system is dead. You'd have a team built for a year - then you are in big trouble."
If the current system ceased in the way Wenger has suggested it might, then it could also spell the end of the massive transfer fees currently paid by Europe's top clubs, with more money going to the players in wages. -
given the short life of a footballer, whats' wrong?
just because they can't pay.. maybe, they can rename their stadium to Emirates-UA-SIA-AIRINDIA...HAHAHAHAA
-
Originally posted by iceFatboy:
given the short life of a footballer, whats' wrong?
just because they can't pay.. maybe, they can rename their stadium to Emirates-UA-SIA-AIRINDIA...HAHAHAHAA
Not funny at all.