For years, Paris Saint-Germain has been causing a sensation for multi-million dollar transfers from world stars and thus not only gathers fans, but above all critics. Now La Liga President Javier Tebas is making new headlines – he accuses the Sheikh Club of financial fraud in large sums. The Spaniard says: “I can show the fraud in terms of financial fair play, with numbers.”
According to the Financial Fair Play regulation, European clubs are only allowed to spend roughly as much as they earn on the other side. Tebas, one of the biggest critics of the large-scale PSG project, objected that they did not adhere to the relevant rules.
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Paris Saint-Germain has been financed from Qatar since 2012. This sponsorship contract was supposed to bring in around 600 million euros for the then financially troubled club in the first four years alone. After the club managed to lure world stars like Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi to Paris with unearthly sums of money, criticism quickly arose that the Qatari tourism authority was circumventing UEFA’s financial regulations.
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Javier Tebas also said this in an interview with “L’Équipe”: “It simply causes great damage to European football” and continues “how can PSG explain that the team is worth almost 600 million euros? If they win Ligue 1, they won’t earn more than 45 million euros … it’s impossible. ”With this enormous difference – which financial fair play clearly contradicts – Tebas wants to prove the financial fraud. He has also already tried to confront the pullers in the desert state with these inconsistencies. He had offered PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi to show him the figures and thus show how the club was violating financial rules – but never received an answer.
Tebas also railed against the accumulation of World Cups
As expected, finances also played the main role here. According to Tebas, FIFA boss Gianni Infantino needed around 2.4 billion euros for his planned Club World Cup, which he was unable to draw from the current football business. For this reason, he wants the World Cup to take place every two years. Javier Tebas sees himself as a clear opponent of the FIFA plans.
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