If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That's OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it's not guaranteed.
People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.
I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.