Secretary of Buxton United Eton Moses said he is opposed to the competing clubs in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League paying a registration fee to participate in the championships.
Clubs set to compete in the second season of the event are required to pay $500,000 to the federation, with $330,000 being the registration fee and $170,000 being insurance fees.
Clubs have a deadline of September 12th or risk not being eligible to participate.
In the inaugural season, teams were required to pay $500,000 as the registration charge.
In an exclusive interview with Stabroek News, Moses said: “To pay to play in your own league, that should not happen, that is nonsense they have inherited from Clinton Urling them (Normalization Committee) and they don’t have the gall to change it.
“The investment being made by the clubs is already high. That don’t happen in any other place. In order to offset some of the expenses of the league, the GFF telling some of the clubs they must pay for it.
“If Kashif and Shanghai has a league you won’t have to pay to play in it, if Slingerz has a league you won’t have to pay to play in it, if the East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) has a league, the clubs won’t have to pay to play in it, why do you have to pay money to enter the GFF league?”
Asked if the present event is financially viable, Moses said: “The leagues forces clubs to expend a lot of financial resources and for just four clubs to benefit in prizes that cannot point to viability. In my view, the league needs to be franchise based.”
He indicated that the suggestion was made by his club where sponsors invest into the respective teams and that the investment is returned to the donors in turn as a tax rebate from the revenue authority.
“If the sponsor invest let’s say 10 million. The next year when they make a tax return they should get back 90 percent of that money. All (clubs) must have financial statements so as to account for how the money is spent as well,” he added.
