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Gary Neville criticized as "ridiculous" the Football Association's plan to sell the Wembley Stadium for funding basic facilities, saying the money should come from the rich Premier League clubs or a 25% tax. The former defender of Manchester United and England said that 70 million more pounds a year could be found by the 20 Premier League clubs paying £ 3.5 million each, and that the Government should also invest more in sports facilities. Neville, a digital, cultural, media and sports committee that has heard about the proposed sale of Wembley, has described 70 million pounds a year as "a mouthful of bread in football … a mouthful of to the government. He said: "I despair at the thought that the board of directors and the management of the FA are sitting there and think that they have to sell Wembley to fund grbadroots football … Place a tax on agent's fees, that money disappears from play, there are 70 million additional pounds Do not sell Wembley Whatever you do, do not sell Wembley when you can just put a tax on agents' fees. "[19659002] Premier League clubs paid £ 214 million to transfer agents last year, including the windows in summer 2017 and January 2018. Fifa is considering reforms including a potential ceiling on fees, but no football organization offers levies on agents' fees to fund basic facilities, in which the Premier League, the FA and the government invest 70 million euros annually through the Football Foundation.
He was in the discussion s to sell £ 600 million to Wembley to Fulham's owner, Shahid Khan, who could use the stadium as a European base for his Jacksonville Jaguars team during the season from September to December or January NFL.
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch, who is also testifying before the committee, indicated his interim support for the sale of Wembley – which is legally required – saying that better facilities were needed: "If you build, people will come and for the time being we have not been "
Crouch refused to agree with the deputies, including Jo Stevens of the Labor Party, that the Premier League should contribute more. Ms. Crouch indicated that she had negotiated a doubling of the league's annual funding for facilities and core programs to £ 100 million during the 2016-19 TV dealings, which she qualified of "major victory". That's 4% of the £ 2.4 billion that Premier League clubs have won last season.
The consent of Sport England is also required because it contributes 120 million pounds to the reconstruction of Wembley. Its chairman, Nick Bitel, told the committee that "very detailed conversations" were taking place and that there was "a very good general agreement" on how the proceeds of a sale would be invested by the company. Intermediary of the Football Foundation
. the agreement, depends on the preservation of Wembley as the national stadium for England's matches, the finals of the FA Cup and a list of other "flagship events" that take place there, as well as restrictions, particularly on naming rights.
The FA does not want to wait for "jam tomorrow," he said, but make a "tangible difference" to facilities without changing rooms, toilets and maintenance by local authorities. Bitel said the local authorities' annual sports budgets have been reduced by 1.5 to 1 billion pounds in the last five years.
"I do not have the Premier League money, I have FA money," Glenn said. "I think the FA has been waiting years on some of these issues, hoping that something in the corner could come up, whether it's a gaming tax or an exceptional Premier League tax, and we just had to go 19659002] "The sale of Wembley, if we can release … the money that is locked in a stadium, redeploy to hundreds or thousands of playgrounds in the country, why not consider doing it especially if we could retain control and use of the stadium, and it remains the national stadium. "
The FA undertakes a national consultation on the proposal The parliamentary committee does not plan to report on the sale of Wembley.
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