Sadi reveals a new reduction in players’ wages – New Algeria

Walid Sadi, Minister of Sports and President of the Algerian Football Federation, revealed today, Thursday, the tendency of professional clubs to reduce wages and cap their budgets starting from the next season (2025-2026).

Walid Sadi revealed that he recently met with representatives of the national companies that own or contribute to professional football clubs in a meeting with the aim of studying the situation of professional football, a meeting that led to the development of a preliminary road map whose provisions will begin to be implemented starting in January 2025.

Sadi spoke today, Thursday, in his capacity as Minister of Sports and not as President of the Algerian Football Federation. And that’s during Plenary session of the National People’s Assembly Dedicated to asking oral questions.

Sadi explained that this coordination meeting with representatives of the national companies that own or contribute to professional football clubs, which is part of the sports sector project in the field of monitoring the bodies supervising sports in Algeria, concluded with “several offers were submitted by representatives of these national economic companies that own or contribute.” Contributing to professional football clubs as they have become more spenders of public money.”

Minister Sadi pointed out that “this initial road map focused, in its financial aspect, on the need for clubs to commit to making efforts to reduce wage burdens with the start of the 2025-2026 sports season, and to pledge to ceiling their annual budget and review it to a reasonable extent.”

In the same parliamentary session, Sadi also addressed the issue of combating corruption in the sports sector, in response to a question by one of the representatives about the strategy developed by the Ministry of Sports to combat this phenomenon.

He stated, “The Ministry will not hesitate to combat corruption in all its forms, whether at the central level or the institutions that fall under its guardianship, as well as at the level of organizing structures and activating athletes, by developing an annual inspection program that is implemented by the Ministry’s General Inspectorate and includes central and non-centralized administration.” .

Sadi emphasizes the fight against corruption in sports

Sadi was keen to stress that his ministerial department “will seek to work in complete transparency with the supreme national authority to prevent and combat corruption in the field of training, awareness-raising and data exchange, as well as updating the legal system in line with the requirements of protecting public funds and coordinating the rules of integrity in the management of this funds, along the lines of The draft executive decree specifies the methods of financing and monitoring the organizational structures and athletes’ activation, which requires the methods of financing and the study of its requests.”

It is worth noting that Walid Sadi has been appointed New Minister of Sportsby the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on November 18, succeeding Abdelrahmane, who was Minister of Youth and Sports.