In light of growing uncertainty about the top-flight league’s future, Indian Super League (ISL) side Bengaluru FC has stopped paying the salaries of its first team’s players and staff.
The 2018-19 Indian Super League champions stated in a statement that they had chosen the team “in view of the uncertainty surrounding the Indian Super League season’s future.”
Bengaluru continued, “Running and operating a football club in India has always been a challenging task that we have put all of our resources aside and built up to the end of the season.”
We have no choice but to proceed because there is no consensus on the League’s future, though.
After contract renewal negotiations between the nation’s football federation (AIFF) and Reliance-led Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), their business partners, were stalled, the ISL was put on hold.
After India’s Supreme Court requested that the AIFF not renew the deal with FSDL until it had issued an order enforcing a separate case to implement a new constitution for the federation, talks to restart.
We are in contact with our players, staff, and their families as we wait for a resolution, and we urge the AIFF and FSDL to resolve this impasse right away, Bengaluru said in a statement.
The Reuters news agency’s requests for comment were not immediately responded to by the AIFF and ISL.
Eight ISL clubs will meet with the AIFF this week to discuss the future of the league, according to reports in Indian media.
Bengaluru’s youth teams, which includes India’s Sunil Chhetri, who has scored a century of goals, were exempt from the salary suspension, according to the city.
Source: Aljazeera
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