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FIFPRO warns players against signing for teams in six countries
Reading Time: 2min | Thu. 07.07.22. | 16:57
Two of the countries red flagged are in Africa
The Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (FIFPRO) has fired a warning to professional players against signing for teams in six countries.
The six countries include Algeria, China, Greece (Super League 2), Libya, Romania, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey with FIFPRO citing widespread contractual violations in the named nations.
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The association which is a worldwide representative organisation for 65,000 professional footballers in the globe explained their reason for red listing Romania and Turkey.
“FIFPRO is today issuing a transfer warning which advises professional footballers against signing for clubs in Algeria, China, Greece (Super League 2), Libya, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Turkey because of systematic and widespread contractual violations in those countries. In Romania and Turkey, contractual violations by multiple clubs - including defaulting on salary payments - remains a longstanding and recurring issue,” read a statement from FIFPRO.
There is an elevated number of clubs in Romania that enter into insolvency procedures that continue to have severe consequences for players which in turn pushes them into never-ending insolvency procedures with little to no chance of getting any compensation.
In the case of the Greek second tier, FIFPRO explained that clubs frequently shut down without honouring their debts. In the past two years, Greece has been the country with the highest number of players seeking to get some of their unpaid wages from the FIFA Player Protection Fund.
Kenyan international Abud Omar was recently axed by his Greek side AE Larissa with the club on the brink of financial meltdown but the club was recently saved by a takeover.
Algeria, Saudi Arabia and China have been red flagged for non-payment of salaries with the latter recently witnessing a mass exodus of top players due to a salary cap which was introduced.
With regards to Libya, FIFPRO was increasingly concerned about the growing number of foreign players who are stranded in the country because clubs that employ them refuse to provide the relevant documentation to leave.
