Rummenigge: “A salary cap would be impossible in Europe”

Bayern Munich managers Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Oliver Kahn have demanded that discussions about salary caps in professional football be held. and that financial 'fair play' becomes a more “serious and sustainable” standard.

“We would need a regulation that also complies with the law”Rummenigge, chairman of the Bavarian club's board of directors, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. However, he also admitted that “in the last ten years not only wages increased, but also sales.”

A salary cap like that of the United States is “impossible in Europe because competition law prevents it”added the 64-year-old manager. “Financial 'fair play' must be imposed in a new, more serious and sustainable way,” he added.

“We are in a football competition with Europe. Sand we are starting to reduce wages now and we are the only ones who do it, we will not get the players that allow us to remain competitive at the highest level at the international level, “said Kahn, Rummenigge's designated successor.

However, Kahn acknowledged that “the best players go to the club that pays them the best”. “We are the first to receive criticism for not signing the best players,” said the exporter of the German team and the Bavarian club.