Platini fights for the economic transparence in the European football (Yahoo)

The European football own the exorbitant figure of 6300 millions Euros, much more than the external debts of several countries, as consequence of a politic since years based to waste first then to turn to the different stratum of the power (national or any other) thus to solve them, according to a report of over eighty pages on the situation of some 1300 European clubs of the fifty three federations that compose the UEFA.
Michel Platini, who played football magnificently and today presides the UEFA with many tickets to turn out into the future president of the FIFA, as he counts with the backing of the present mandatory Joseph Blatter, he face a hard fight to arrive to a major transparency in the economic management of the European clubs, stressing particularly in the principal leagues (English Premier League, the Spanish League, the Italian League and the German Bundesliga ), those are that waste more in registering and often find themselves in a street without an exit.
Platini is observing something that already was often happening in South America but call more attention in Europe and is related to the ethic if a club grants all kinds of comfort to their players, concentrates them in the best hotels, makes them travel by the best companies, contracting big cracks and then does not pay all this and owes it, is making fraud because uses all this to win over rival that only wastes what he can and manages correctly the economy. It seems that with Platini these things (as many others regarding which he also spoke) will start changing in football’s benefit.
What the report tells is that between the Premier League and the Spanish League have 70 percents of the total of the European debt, of which 4000 millions correspond only to the Premier (where for instant, the Portsmouth, that passed twice through the hands of the magnates is in the last position in the League, in bankruptcy, few points to descend to the First Division and maybe to disappear), what means the 56 percents of the total, meanwhile Spain owes 1000 millions, a 14 percent.
The Italian calcio is the third in debts, though already with the half of the Spanish League owing 500 millions Euros, what has two different versions. One that is real proof of the noisy fall of the Italian football in the last years, at least in comparison with the English or Spanish and also it shows it in the European cups. But the other explanation is that the Italian clubs have not to confront the worst expenses, item by item that without any doubt is the maintenance of the stadium, that in this case are communal meanwhile in the rest of Europe they are property of the clubs.
The report also says that the 54 percents of the 732 European clubs of first division suffered losses in their balance and at least by the data of the season 2007/08, the total expense was of 12.100 millions Euros, in which the 60 percent was only for salaries, increased by 18 percent compared to the former season. In change, the English were of 11.500 mullions of Europe, what represents, in one season only, a loss of 60º million Euros. But the negative balance may be considered as optimistic. As the 10,6 percent of these increases covered the new contracts signed by the clubs in Italy or England with TV.
The 88 percent of the incomes by television (4100 millions Euros) are for the more powerful leagues and with more quantity of spectators in the stadium. Germany, with about 42.000 spectators per match, England (35.000) and Spain (28.000) are those that have more fans on the gallery and then follow Italy and France.
Another important factor to outline as proof of the enormous expenses of the great leagues is that the total amount wasted for the ten first teams in Europe, duplicates what was wasted by the second ten of the same continent (1820 vs 950 millions).
Platini’s fight, by all means, is not reduced to this item, but as we cited before and in other articles, he is also investigating possible settlements in matches, organized mafias in football and hard critics for the excessive expanses in registrations of players or politics that concern young layers of periphery countries to form them under self control. Also the clandestine bets are under Platini’s eyes that seem to reach the directives of the football with the intelligent view of an ex player, someone that wants to changes things seriously and soonest possible.
Will he be able to reach it?