For once Platini says something we can all agree on.

For once UEFA president, Michel Platini has come out with a statement that we can all agree on as opposed to an unrealistic erratic view of something in the game. Platini is not happy about the amount of money that Real Madrid are spending and is prompting the suggestion that something should be done about it.

Madrid have spent over £130 million on two players in the past week, which has led to outcry from all sections of the football community. It has also been taken as insult by a number of world charities that are working tirelessly day after day to eradicate the real problems in the world.

The worry is that these excessive amounts of money floating around in the game will virtually buy top clubs a place in the top divisions forever. The gap between the best and the rest is already wide enough and the recent transfer activity has sparked suggestions that a budget system should be introduced to stop this gap between first and second tier clubs from getting any bigger.

Platini said: “These excessive transfers are happening almost every day. They represent a serious challenge to the idea of fair play and the concept of financial balance in our competitions. UEFA is working hard with clubs to establish a new set of rules as soon as is possible to clean up the system and give it a more solid and more transparent base. That is our top priority.”

Platini created a lot of controversy in this country when it emerged earlier in the year that he wanted to change the Champions League system in order to stop so many English sides doing well. Some people may not have been expecting the common sense that he has just come out with and it creates hope that something can be seriously done to stop Madrid in their tracks.

Until a capping system is introduced into the top of the game all over Europe and the world then the clubs can go about doing as they please, tapping up whoever they like until they ultimately get the transfer that they desire. How a football club, especially, in this day and age can fork out £80 million for one player is a joke.

That amount of money could probably pay for one or two more new wings in a hospital somewhere but instead it is being used to trade someone whose ego gets in the way of him actually seeing reality for what it is. It’s fair to say right now that the world record fee for Ronaldo will exist forever because now that Platini has got his teeth into the whole affair it is unlikely to be broken ever again.

So the advice to football clubs at the moment would be get your spending in before the official rules are put in place, because if they aren’t then football will descend into anarchy, run by a small number of clubs that make it impossible for anyone else to break their position at the summit.