UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin Says Organization Could Consider Salary Cap

UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin said that the organization "would seriously consider introducing a salary cap to help level an increasingly uneven playing field in the sport," according to Zoran Milosavljevic of REUTERS. A cap would be aimed at "bridging the gulf between Europe's wealthiest clubs and the rest of the field," as well as preventing the top teams from "stockpiling players on their payrolls." Čeferin said, "The wealthiest clubs are only getting richer and the gap between them and the rest is getting bigger. In future, we will have to take into serious consideration the possibility of limiting clubs' budgets for players' wages." He did not specify a timeframe. On the issue of "bloated squads," he said that many leading clubs bought players they do not need "and who end up playing nowhere." Ceferin also said the organization "had no plans yet to introduce video assistance in matches." He said, "VAR will require a lot of testing to convince me" (REUTERS, 6/30).