West Brom boss Tony Pulis calls for LMA meeting over 'extraordinary' FA fines

West Brom manager Tony Pulis has called for a meeting of the League Managers Association to discuss action over the FA's "extraordinary" fines on managers.

Pulis has previously questioned the FA about where the penalties are spent within the governing body but got no answer other than "generally into the funds". 

The Baggies boss has warned that managers will become increasingly reticent during television interviews if fines such as the £50,000 handed to Jose Mourinho this week continue.

Pulis said: "The LMA and Richard Bevan has to pull all the managers together; we have to have a meeting to find out what's going on.

"I think £50,000 is an extraordinary amount of money. I've been fined a few times by the FA for stepping out of line, and my argument is, 'where does that money go? Does it go to charity'?

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"When I asked, I didn't get an answer. We talk about transparency; if you're going to take that sort of money off an individual - his money - then let us know where it's going.

"I'd love the FA to be transparent and tell us which bank it's put in and how it's spent. I was told generally it goes into the funds and is spent in different ways."

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Pulis feels the elevated media demands on managers has an inevitable consequence given the high stakes involved in the Premier League.

"Also, where we have to be careful is that this is a game of emotion, and managers get emotionally involved," he added. "Part and parcel of the Premier League is the emotional flavour, on and off the pitch.

"Managers come on TV and go over the top and sometimes need a slap round the wrist. But we need to be careful we don't put ourselves in a position where we just come on and nod our heads, and say nothing, because we're frightened we'll get punished and fined £50,000."

Mourinho blasted his punishment as "a disgrace" and Pulis warned the FA's actions could hamper the stream of good foreign managers coming to the Premier League.

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Pulis said: "Jose is an experienced manager and he will stand for what is right, and obviously he believes in that.

"Now we've got Jurgen Klopp, who seems another outspoken manager, and we integrate foreign managers better than any other country in the world.

"We have to get together as a union and talk together about the way we start approaching the press conferences after games, because if the FA is going to start fining people extraordinary amounts of money then we need to do something about it."

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