Valery Gladilin, former coach of Moscow Spartak, finds the possibility of imposing a tax on foreign football players unfair. He shared his opinion with him vprognoze.ru.
“So what kind of money is this for clubs like Zenit, Spartak, CSKA? It won’t affect anything. Most other clubs do not use foreign players. In the First League, they usually only sign foreigners for free. So, almost half of the RPL clubs are interested in recruiting foreign players. This is a tax on RPL. The expert said that the current figures are nothing for the big Russian clubs.
February 21, General Secretary of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Maxim Mitrofanov statedHe said that a tax could be imposed on foreign players in test mode starting from the 2024/25 season.
The football official said such a measure should encourage clubs to increase the playing time of native Russians.
In February 2022, information appeared that the club will pay 5 or 10 thousand rubles for every minute a foreign player spends on the field. Exactly how much it is depends on age: 5 thousand for a legionnaire under 23, 10 thousand for the rest.
He was previously a football player for Spartak compared With the Serie A star.