Rummenigge’s fight against the rising salaries in football has more history than Rasenballsport Leipzig.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has been concerned about the direction of player salaries in football for a while now. The member of Bayern Munich’s supervisory board and former legendary CEO of the club feels salaries have far crossed the boundaries of sensible and understandable. But the former Inter Milan player is not limited to complaining about the issue. As Rummenigge revealed recently, he has thought about how to solve the issue as well:
“In Europe we need either a cap on squad costs like in the US professional leagues – or a cap on player salaries. At the end of the day, a salary cap would probably be better for the internal working atmosphere, just to curb the jealousy factor in the dressing room. Because if someone gets an insane salary, you can only pay everyone else much less,” Rummenigge explained, via @iMiaSanMia. “And if a player at FC Bayern were to earn “only” 15 million euros a year instead of 20, I still think that’s an insane amount of money, with all due respect.”
How feasible is a salary cap in Europe, though? It seems as if it would be a real hassle to be able to install in any sort of reasonable matter. After so many years of financial inequality between the top clubs and those not at the top, how would football as a whole react to such a drastic change? It certainly make for an interesting thought experiment.
