2 days after Spanish football giant FC Barcelona is reported to have offered an all-time high of about Rs.258 crore as transfer fee to Manchester United to acquire Portugal’s Christiano Ronaldo, India’s own big trio, Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Mahindra United are sitting in Bangalore tomorrow to decide on starting the concept of transfer fees among them.
Right now, an informal understanding exists between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, whereby if any player is poached on, the club that makes the move will pay Rs.10 lakhs to the other. This is possible as both clubs are presently controlled by Vijay Mallya’s UB Group.
But now that National Football League’s (NFL) prestige has grown as the most important football tourney in India at the club level, poaching of players from other clubs has also grown manifold. It is for this reason that the 2 corporate companies, UB and Mahindra have agreed to arrange this meeting in Bangalore.
If a consensus is reached about transfer fees, one may expect this incorporated for all football teams registered with AIFF (All India Football Federation). It’s time this is done, because it is one of the important steps to involve more corporate companies in football, the way it is in nearly all football-playing nations.
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