German FA, Bayern want salary cap for 'credible' football

Fritz Keller , president of the German Football Association, is leading a move to introduce a salary cap. BERLIN: German FA president Fritz Keller and Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge want to propose a salary cap to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, it was revealed on Tuesday .

"There are absurd salaries and transfer fees that are no longer credible," Keller, boss of the German Football Association , told reporters."We have to talk about salary caps. I am glad that I agree with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on this point.Rummenigge touted the idea at the weekend in an interview with broadcaster Sky.

" Michel Platini had the idea years ago to introduce a salary cap in Europe based on the American model," Rummenigge said.While the Frenchman allegedly had the support"of all the big clubs in Europe. However, we were told from the outset that this could not be brought into line with competition laws," Rummenigge added.The restricting of wages, which are currently"partly from another world", can only be achieved with UEFA's help, he added.

"The end result must be a regulation that conforms to European law and also applies to Britain," Keller said, referring to England's big spending Premier League clubs."We must bring professional football closer to the people again," said Keller. "The current crisis has brought to light problems in football that were previously overshadowed by ever new records.""I spoke to him on Tuesday morning and the matter has been resolved," said Keller.In an interview with magazine Spiegel, Keller had complained about the"bigotry" of nouveau riche football millionaires, which Rummenigge felt was aimed at Bayern.

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