A member of the Football Association’s Status and Transfers Committee, spokesperson for the Counselor Committee Yaqoub Al Ali, confirmed that all the provisions of the regulations for the salary limit for professional professional players that were applied in the last season are in effect, and there is no change in it, and that the circular for this matter Also valid until the end of the current sports season.
Yaqoub Al Ali told «Emirates Today»: «Regarding the players’ salary ceiling for the coming season, the committee will study the matter and will raise its recommendations regarding it, whether to keep the ceiling or cancel it, and the committee will discuss the rest of the regulations, but for the current salary ceiling for players, it is valid to end of the season".
It is noteworthy that the previous Football Association had specified four categories of players to whom the salary cap would be applied, so that the maximum salary for the player in the first category during the same football season does not exceed 2.8 million dirhams, the second category is 1.8 million dirhams, the third category is 1.2 million dirhams, and the fourth category does not The player’s salary exceeds 600 thousand dirhams.
Yaqoub Al Ali pointed out that, according to the latest statement issued by the Football Association that sporting activity will resume next August, all contracts of national players that expire in June 2020 will be extended initially until August 2020 or until the actual end of the sports season.
Al Ali added: "As for the foreign professional players whose contracts will expire in June 2020, we mean the foreign player, i.e. the player who does not have the nationality of the state, whether he is a citizen of the citizens, a resident or a foreigner, their clubs must negotiate with them regarding the extension of their contracts."
In response to a question about what the club will do if the foreign professional player refuses to extend his contract with the club, he said: “As for us as a committee, we will consider every case that will come to us in this regard, and I expect that such cases will come to the committee and we will study the matter, and I expect that we will find a solution for it However, until now, no case has been reached in the committee, and if we have received cases, the committee will consider every case according to the local regulations, the regulations of the players ’conditions, as well as the annual circular and the FIFA regulations in this regard, as well as in accordance with the circular issued by the International Federation for football".
Yaqoub Al Ali pointed out that with regard to opening the registration door for the next season, there will be many exceptions in this regard, including when the summer registration door will open, as well as when the winter registration door will open.
In response to a question about the legal status of a citizen player who is currently playing from one club and at the same time signed a contract with another club, Al Ali said: "There will be no conflict in the two contracts for the simple reason that the player is obligated to contract with his current club until the end of the current sports season."