Bayern president rules out a European Super League “in the short term”

The president of Bayern Munich, Herbert Hainer, has trusted this Wednesday that more investors enter the world of international football as a result of the coronavirus crisis, while has ruled out that a European Super League will go ahead “in the short term”

“I think more money will come from abroad,” Hainer told a conference on the sports business held in the German city of Düsseldorf. “On the one hand, because many clubs have been punished by the coronavirus crisis, in some cases they were even bad before “, declared the president of the current champion of the German league.

Heiner opined that, “on the other hand, it would not hurt the sport to introduction of professional club management“At the end of the day, not all clubs and not all federations are managed in such a way that success comes automatically,” he said.

The Bayern president considered that investors can not only become interested in the most important clubs, but also in the small ones that show potential. “There are different reasons. But those who look at yields, go where they see growth possibilities,” he said.

On the other hand, the 67-year-old manager explained that he does not believe that the Super League project will ever come to fruition after the failure of the first attempt. “I don't want to rule that out for eternity. But it certainly won't come in the short term,” he said. “The impact was too hard”, argued referring to the broad rejection that the initiative generated and that determined its failure.

The president of the influential German club also reiterated his call to set a cap on wages in the soccer business: “It is necessary to regulate the salaries of the players, the transfer costs and the salaries of the advisers.” “It has been talked about for a long time, but it has never been done. Perhaps the crisis is an opportunity to address the issue now and that the sport can survive,” he proposed.