The law that will force the managers of football clubs financially comes to the Parliament
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Government, football He is preparing to bring to the Parliament the legal regulation that stipulates that managers will be responsible for debts that exceed incomes in their clubs.
Based on a government mandate with direct knowledge of the bill by Bloomberg newsAccording to the regulations aimed at curbing the increase in the spending of clubs, next month Turkish Grand National Assemblyis expected to be submitted to.
FAILED TO INCREASE REVENUE
Bloomberg wrote that the regulation will force clubs to reduce their dependence on bank loans and make the transfer of players like Mesut Özil difficult. It was emphasized that the clubs made star transfers by paying millions of dollars in the past but failed to increase their revenues at the same rate. news“The debts exceeded 2.4 billion dollars in total” provided by MHP deputy and former football player Saffet Sancaklı.
Sancaklı also provided another interesting piece of information about the arrangement. Accordingly, by regulation, foreign investors Turkish Partnering with clubs will be made easier. NewsAccording to the four big clubs, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor, they have a total debt of 893 million dollars to the banks and the banks are being negotiated to restructure the debt. This debt is about 3 times the income of clubs.
SAFFET SANCAKLI: THIS JOB IS NOW AN UNBELIEVABLE WELL
Led by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) MP and former national football player Saffet Sancaklı ‘Sport Clubs and Associations Law Proposal ‘a lot of times before, Turkey’s Grand National Assembly (Parliament) had come to the agenda. Speaking at the Sports Clubs and Federations Workshop organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Ankara, Sancaklı stated that the state took over the situation and said:
“The state had to confiscate this. In the first minute of the workshop, I had doubts that nothing would happen in my head. I saw in the first minute that we did a very good job. I congratulate the Minister and his team. This workshop may be the turning point of Turkish sports. The speeches will be gathered at the Ministry. A short At the end of this report, we will determine how we will keep the clubs and federations alive, what system we need to establish in order not to experience such a thing again, and we will pass laws in the parliament.
“WE WILL BRING THIS LAW TO ASSEMBLY”
The average attendance number in the Super League dropped to 13 thousand. TFF 1. League an average of 2 thousand 800. Now, the nation started to run away from stadiums. The publisher says it couldn’t save the money. Clubs cannot receive ads. The situation was very bad. This job falls to all of us, especially the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The Ministry and the Parliament should stop this. Clubs come to Ankara and go to the President of the Republic, to the Minister and to us. They want something. This job is now a bottomless well. Whatever you throw in this well goes down. Since the day I went to the parliament, I pressed it as clubs union law. Today, after the workshop, we will bring this law to the parliament and hopefully we will pass it. “
PERSONAL LIABILITY TO ORGANIZE WORKSHOP AND OVER BUDGET
Club representatives had previously met with the ministry and the TFF regarding the draft law and exchanged their views. Clubs reported that some of the items in the bill should be in separate categories.
Studies on the bill continue. A meeting of the lawyers of the Clubs Association was held. Another workshop will be held with the participation of club lawyers and the opinion to be formed will be announced to the press.
Club managers; The bill, which imposes personal responsibility and imposes imprisonment if they exceed the determined budget, is expected to be legalized in the Turkish Grand National Assembly by the end of the year.
Here are those important changes:
1-Clubs will no longer be an association. Thus, they will be removed from the Ministry of Interior.
2-The Ministry of Youth and Sports will control the clubs. In other words, when establishing a club, it will receive its approval from the ministry and will be inspected by the ministry throughout its life.
3-Managers will receive direct responsibility and imprisonment for the expenses and debts in their period.
4-Regulations will be introduced to sports judicial bodies such as the Arbitration Board. Compliance with the Turkish Commercial Code and the Turkish Penal Code will be sought.
