Perth Glory deliberately hid salary cap rorting for three
seasons and deserved to be banned from this year's A-League finals, Football
Federation Australia (FFA) chief David Gallop says.
Gallop said the club's now-disgraced management is likely to
be removed in the wake of the rorting.
The Glory have seven business days to lodge any appeal to
being barred from the finals and fined $269,000 by the FFA.
"The breach this season involves the deliberate failure
to disclose payments and benefits to at least six players," Gallop told
reporters on Friday.
"We cannot have a club that is deliberately,
significantly and persistently breaching those obligations of playing for the
championship.
"Where you've got deliberate concealment, you need to
impose strict penalties to send a deterrent.
"Certainly it would be clear that the management have
engaged in these practices and, in our view, it would be unlikely that
management would stay in place."
The Glory said they would soon release a statement ahead of
their Friday night home match against Sydney FC.
The FFA found Perth deliberately failed to disclose payments
and benefits to at least six players, saying the club was about $400,000 over
the $2.55 million salary cap during the three seasons.
Gallop said the Glory - sitting in second spot on the
A-League ladder - would be demoted to seventh at the end of the regulation
rounds.
That scenario would put Brisbane Roar, currently seventh,
into the finals.
The FFA said in addition to the deliberate salary cap
breaches, the Glory also broke rules regarding the disclosure of payments in
the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons.
The peak governing body said Perth were guilty of three
breaches including payments outside of a standard player contract; payments to
a player's family member; payments of travel costs; provision of motor
vehicles; and accommodation benefits.
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