While PSG makes its small quiet market, signing one day Sergio Ramos, then a 53rd goalkeeper with Donnarumma the next day, the big League 1 is desperately waiting for an English buyer to make ends meet.
And there may be deaths at the end of the year, if we are to believe the president of the DNCG, the financial policeman of French football, who has just examined all the accounts of our dear French football.
Asked by
L'Equipe
, he gave some dizzying figures: the clubs lost 730 million euros in revenue last season, and 269 the previous season.
The debts now amount to more than one billion euros.
"The clubs are financially drained: we are to the bone," he notes.
The coming year is hardly more reassuring: “The clubs plan to make 850 million euros in capital gains on transfers, which is a totally unrealistic amount.
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And to conclude that without reform (salary cap, limitation of the number of players under contract), “we cannot exclude, at the end of the season, bankruptcy filings.
"He just forgot to wish all these little people a good season ...
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