“We do have to examine new mechanisms like luxury taxes and, in particular, sporting criteria like squad limitations and fair transfer rules, to avoid player hoarding and excessive concentration of talent within a few teams,” Ceferin said at a conference in Lisbon.
We do need to assess whether the transfer market as it operates today is the best we can do. We cannot be afraid to touch it.”
Ceferin did not elaborate on what “luxury taxes” might mean in practice but said Uefa could work with Fifa to change the transfer market or do so via its own licensing regulations.
Referring to the difference between the biggest clubs and the rest, he said: “We cannot allow the greatness of some to overshadow and drown out the least of us.
“If we allow gaps to become too great, we will be neglecting those who have little opportunity.
“We face a threat that the bottom becomes unstable because the rest of the world is focused on the top.”
The 49-year-old did not offer any concrete proposals as to how this could be done, saying instead that Uefa needed to “assess and understand the current situation and some potential trends”.
He added: “Uefa has a duty to protect the whole of football and not just the elite.”
A month before Ceferin’s election, Uefa announced changes to the Champions League competition, giving more places to teams from Europe football’s four biggest nations – England, Spain, Germany and Italy – and cutting those allocated to the rest.
Ceferin did not specifically refer to this in his speech but, quizzed afterwards, said he also recognised the importance of the biggest leagues.
“You cannot ignore the fact that the big five countries bring 86 per cent of revenues and take 60 per cent of revenues, so you have to be diplomatic, you have to be clever,” he said.
He added Uefa would set up a new division entitled “Protection of the Game” and would soon have an “army” of people to tackle doping, corruption violence and match-fixing.
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