Yesterday, the French Football League clubs received a resounding shock after the sudden decision to cancel the local football season, as part of a general decision announced by French Prime Minister Edward Philippe to suspend all sports activities except for individual sports until next August, which means that it is impossible to resume the league championship suspended since last March due to Corona pandemic.
Although restrictions on the quarantine of French citizens in general will be eased starting next May 11, this will not include football, as France will be the first among the five major leagues in Europe that announce the cancellation of the season. This cancellation caused a huge financial loss for all clubs, led by Paris Saint-Germain, who will suffer a loss according to French media that could reach 350 million euros, not to mention what was caused by the Brazilian national team and player Neymar, who has so far received 111 million euros against 80 Only a match since his arrival in the team in the summer of 2017, with a record deal in the history of football amounting to 222 million euros, and an annual salary that costs the club's treasury annually 37 million euros, along with other rewards.
Neymar has averaged 26 games each season only with Saint Germain, and by canceling the current season, he will have played only 51% of the presumed matches in three seasons, in which he was largely absent either due to disciplinary sanctions or as a result of multiple injuries, the most famous of which was against Real Madrid in the Champions League 2018 And, in total, Neymar missed the Spanish newspaper "Marca" for 100 days with his club, who will have to search for ways to compensate for the huge financial losses, whether from the Neymar deal, which is considered a failure on the scale of the ball, along with the issues resulting from the cancellation of the season in France, and the reduction of box office revenues and rights TV broadcast.
In addition to the ordeals of Saint Germain, the upcoming trial in Switzerland next September, for the club's president, Qatari Nasser Al-Khulaifi, on corruption charges linked to some of the former Secretary-General of the FIFA, Jerome Valcke.