“You can’t go out and spend as much money as you want. If you go over your budget, we might ban you from European competitions,” said Platini. He seemed really angry with all that money being offered around. He said that he just can’t understand that one player can cost 150 million euro. “That’s just impossible,” said Platini.
“We made a licensing system where clubs aren’t allowed to spend over their income. If they do, they might get banned. What do we do after we ban them? We replace them by those further down the table of that country who meet the criteria,” said Michel Platini, the president of UEFA.