Milan, Galliani calls for a salary cap

Milan’s managing director, Adriano Galliani, has called for a salary cap to be introduced in football to cut costs as the sport deals with the global economic crisis. “I think it would be opportune to have a salary cap, like they do in the United States,” Galliani said.

“There are discussions at Uefa to introduce this system in the Champions League sooner or later,” he said. Galliani also painted a bleak picture of the other leagues in Europe. He believes a “wind of crisis” is blowing through the English and Spanish top flights as well as in Serie A, and that the close-season transfer market will be affected.

“A weak, pale summer market awaits us, with player swaps but very little money movement,” he said. “This is more than certain.”