Serie A clubs met yesterday to discuss the proposals to submit to the government to try to save the football system, according to a report from today’s paper edition of the Milano based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.
The report details how the clubs send the Italian football federation their estimates of the damage caused by the Coronavirus emergency, whilst also proposing that players’ salaries be temporarily suspended. The clubs’ justification for this request is that the players are currently not training or playing and so the clubs would like a freeze on wages from the 8th March to whenever the players return to training again.
Work is being done to ensure that all clubs are on the same page, the report continues, to stop each president having to deal with the situation on their own. The proposal is likely to be questioned by Fifpro, the international representative of footballers. Other proposals the clubs made to the government concern the allowment of sports betting sponsorship, a modification of the law governing TV rights and a simplified process for clubs who want to build new stadiums.