D-1 before the final of the Champions League between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich. PSG suffered the full brunt of the Covid-19 crisis with the stoppage of matches and lost around 225 million euros. But this qualification in the final already represents an economic victory for the Parisian club. And a title could earn him a little more. Sports economist Pierre Rondeau did the math: it's the guaranteed jackpot for PSG.
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130 million euros for the qualification in the final, 4 million more in case of victory
"We can already estimate it at more than 130 million euros for his place as a finalist," he told Europe 1 on Saturday. And, in the event of victory on Sunday, "it is 4 million euros more in the bag of PSG". "The season will be saved economically", assures the economist. "Faced with financial fair play, the permanent need to reinvest and make an economic commitment, and the need to renegotiate contracts with MBappé and Neymar, it is certain that the final victory will in a certain way allow things to come. ", adds Pierre Rondeau.
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In addition, this amount does not take into account indirect revenues, merchandising, new partnerships, or the renewal of certain contracts. Paris, whose overall value is estimated at almost two billion euros by the Sports Observatory, will however have to provide for something it had not planned: match bonuses in the event of a final victory. A bonus of one million gross per player, negotiated at the time by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.