FFP to help deal with local football salary issue

PETALING JAYA: The implementation of ‘Financial Fair Play’ (FFP) which will be used by the Malaysian Football League (MFL) for this season will focus on dealing with the issue of salary arrears of local football clubs.

MFL chief executive officer Datuk Stuart Ramalingam said previously the Malaysian League (M-League) only found out about the player’s salary problem from local media reports without knowing the source.

Therefore, he said, the implementation of FFP will ensure that all details regarding salary payments will be monitored by MFL through the documentation requested from national football clubs.

“We have a basic idea of which (players) are paid salary, so on that basis, FFP in the first year may not eliminate the problem as a whole, could deal with it early when something like this happens. We will take early action to request certain documentation from the club to coordinate the payment of salaries in the season, this is the first phase of FFP,” he told reporters recently.