City chief wants wage cap

Al Bubarak calls for changes

By Carla Hilton   Last updated: 14th March 2010   Subscribe to RSS Feed

City chief wants wage cap

Al Mubarak: Big spender

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Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak believes there should be a salary cap in European football.

With a wage payout in excess of £100million a year, he says finance in football has spiralled out of control.

It is not only in the Premier League that clubs have adopted an excessive spending policy, but in La Liga and Serie A as well.

Reflecting on a more controlled outlook in America, where teams have a limit as to the amount of money they can spend on players, the City chairman says such control in Europe would make football throughout the continent a much more level playing field.

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"I am a fan of the American model," he told the News of the World.

"The European model cannot be sustained without new parameters, commercial parameters that allow competition, that allow revenue distribution, and that will allow talent to continue to prosper."

Amongst the highest paid City stars is Carlos Tevez who scoops a reported £140,000-a-week.

Emmanuel Adebayor can boast a similar rate of pay, making City's one of the highest spending clubs on salaries in the Premier League.