SME-/Written by Ali Al-Basha
• The Football House announced the reward for the champion of the Nasser bin Hamad Premier League, which is seventy-five thousand dinars, fifty thousand for the runner-up, and thirty thousand *for the third*, and the numbers continue descending to the six thousand that is for the two relegated teams, which means that the league is a race towards numbers that do not Only a small portion of what the teams spend is achieved!
• The most important thing about the Football House’s announcement is that this time it announced it in the national currency (the dinar) and not in the foreign currency (the dollar), as in previous times we were criticized. Here we raise the “headband” to the administration of (Abi Khaled) and its Secretary-General, because they strengthened (the dinar), so the numbers are in In the end, even if it rises in foreign currency; Its value will remain the same.
• The total value is (265) thousand dinars, for everything the difference will get; I believe that (Football House) worked as hard as its diligence allowed it to communicate with the private entities supporting it, so that it would be able to increase the dues of the clubs, which spend a lot of money to prepare their teams and prepare them for the league, and which are devoured by salaries and bonuses.
• What clubs spend on their teams may be small numbers if we compare it to neighboring countries, and therefore we see that professionals with high technical capabilities prefer those countries; Because the money is (attractive), but the clubs continue to spend more than what is in the pocket, in order to cover the salaries item; Because even a Bahraini player has the value of his monthly bonus; More than what he earns from his main job!
• Poor clubs are; Its investments will not cover its expenses, and the Sports Authority will not back down from reducing the annual support, which has devoured much of what it received before, were it not for ambitious support from time to time. The matter calls for us to appeal to the Parliament to study increasing the financial allocations for sports in the budget. Let the deductions stop and support return to what it was.
• In any case, thanks to (Beit Ball) for its efforts to support its budget, which the more it increases, the more it pours into the value of the prizes for various
Its competitions, and the hope is that the strong sponsorship of the league will return, as in the era of (Shoot), then the (astronomical) number of sponsorships from (Abu Dhabi Channels), without underestimating the value of what is currently being brought in from donations from companies and institutions, but we aspire to something greater.