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| Originally Posted by -zuco- Somebody give this man a cigar.
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Aw....... that's so sweet of you zuco.
Here's a hug and slap on the butt *smack*
Platini proposes curb on salaries http://www.teamtalk.com/football/sto...818700,00.html
Clubs could face limits on the amount they spend on players' salaries under proposals outlined to European ministers by Michel Platini.
In the keynote speech to the council of ministers for European affairs in Brest, UEFA President Platini also called for curbs on transfer of players under 18 and greater power for team sports to govern themselves.
Platini spoke of the need to have "the means to develop better control of clubs' spending" through limiting a club's total wage bill to fixed percentage of their income - between 55 per cent and 65 per cent - but this move would only be taken with the clubs' agreement.
William Gaillard, UEFA's communications director and Platini's special adviser, said: "We know an individual salary cap would be very difficult to enforce in European law but we need to talk to the EC about clubs spending only a percentage of income on salaries.
"It could be 55 per cent, 60 per cent, 65 per cent - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge [chairman of the new European Club Association] has talked recently about 50-55 per cent.
"Michel Platini has said this is what the clubs want and we will support it but we will not enforce it unilaterally."
Gaillard pointed out that G14, the now-defunct group of elite European clubs, had their own salary limit of a maximum of 70 per cent of revenue being spent on wages.
Platini also presented a document recently drafted jointly by six European team sports - basketball, volleyball, handball, ice hockey, rugby union and football - calling for new rules to ban the transfer of players under 18.
Gaillard added:
"Clubs are stealing players aged 12 and 13, taking them away from their homes and then dumping them again a few years later.
"There are a lot of cases all over Europe of terrible failures of very promising players that have been transferred very early, when still children, and haven't developed well and their career has been ended."
Gaillard said the practice was basically "youth trafficking" and was not ethical, and that ministers themselves had raised concerns.
Gaillard said Platini's major task was persuading the EC that sports such as football did not fit in with European competition law.
He added: "Chelsea do not want to be able to beat Manchester United and Arsenal 7-0 every week as soon no one would turn up to watch.
"They want strong competition - but European competition law does not allow for that."
WARNOCK FEARS JORDAN WILL GO http://www.football365.com/story/0,1...821033,00.html
Neil Warnock fears owner Simon Jordan will walk away from football over the John Bostock affair.
The 16-year-old agreed a five-year contract with Spurs when his contract at Crystal Palace expired at the start of the month, but the clubs went to arbitration when they could not agree a fee.
Palace owner Jordan wanted in the region of £5million for the player, who was still 15 when he made his first-team debut in October, but the tribunal settled on a fee rising to £1.25million.
And Warnock fears it could be a tipping point for Jordan.
He told the Daily Mirror: "I've never seen Simon as disillusioned as I did last week.
"He's still enthusiastic about Palace, but he feels utterly saddened by the way football is heading.
"He was devastated, absolutely rock bottom, because he loves the academy and he knows how important it is to the club.
"But he's questioning himself now and saying: 'I don't know whether I want to be involved in the game any more if it's like this'. And I think he's being serious."
Warnock claims Bostock has the "potential to go all the way", but reckons he has chosen the wrong time to move into the Premier League.
He added: "Bostock would have broken into our first team next season and played regularly in the Championship.
"Is he going to get in Spurs' team ahead of (Luca) Modric? There's no way he'll get in the side for three or four years - he would have been better off getting 50 or 100 games with us."
Roman Abramovich’s new £250m villa is world’s most expensive house http://news.in.msn.com/international...mentid=1545979
The Russian billionaire recently picked up the majestic hilltop villa overlooking the French Riviera.
London: Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich’s new home has become the most expensive house on earth, after he paid a whopping 250 million pounds for it.
The Russian billionaire recently picked up the majestic hilltop villa overlooking the French Riviera after falling in love with it during a private viewing along with his girlfriend Daria Zhukova.
The villa, called La Leopolda is know not only to have the best sea views in the south of France, but it also sits on 10 acres of immaculate grounds that run right down to the resort of Villefranche.
It also has the added attraction of being just a stone’s throw from Monte Carlo, reports the Daily Express.
Previous owners of the villa, originally built for Belgian king Leopold’s mistresses, include late banking magnate Edmund Safra, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Fiat tycoon Gianni Agnelli.
Abramovich’s purchase means that he will now be making a monthly payment of 1.6 million pounds to pay its mortgage.
The new addition adds to a list of Abramovich’s lengthy list of real estate.
He already owns the 15million pounds Chateau de la Croe just down the road from La Leopolda. The Chateau was where former British monarch the Duke of Windsor fled with Wallace Simpson in 1938.
Apart from these two, Abramovich also has properties in Knightsbridge, Sussex and Russia.
Source: ANI
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