The president of the European Union defends Saint-Germain because of "Mbappe"

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin called on the leagues today to be "concerned about their situation", in response to the statements of the President of the Spanish League (La Liga) Javier Tebas, after Paris Saint-Germain persuaded the French international Kylian Mbappe to stay in his ranks instead of moving to... Real Madrid.

Tebas criticized Mbappe's decision and considered it contempt for the Spanish champion by renewing his contract for three years with Saint-Germain, describing the contract as "an insult to football".

Speaking to Agence France-Presse in Paris on the eve of tomorrow's Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, Ceferin said, "I do not agree at all. There are a lot of insults anyway in football, and I think every league should worry about its conditions."

The Slovenian added, "I don't think it is right for one league to criticize another league. As far as I know, Real Madrid's offer for Mbappe was similar to that of Paris Saint-Germain."

The president of the French League, Vincent Labron, had responded to Tebas in a letter yesterday seen by AFP, expressing his "rejection, as well as a lack of understanding" of what he described as "attacks" against Paris Saint-Germain and the French first division.


And Tebas had previously attacked the French League, in a tweet, saying that Saint-Germain paid "large sums of money" to keep Mbappe "after incurring 700 million euros in losses in recent seasons and his salary bill exceeding 600 million euros."


The annual report of the French Football Finance Authority (DNCG) had indicated at the beginning of this May that Saint-Germain recorded a deficit of 224.28 million euros ($235.5 million) in the 2020/2021 season, an increase of 80 percent over the previous season.

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