Jean-François Pérès, edited by Thibault Nadal 06:08, June 16, 2022
Earlier this week, Javier Tebas, the president of the Spanish League, announced that he was about to file a complaint against PSG, after Kylian Mbappé's contract extension despite the offer from Real Madrid.
In a statement released on Wednesday, La Liga confirmed the complaint to UEFA for "failure to respect financial fair play".
This is a new and spectacular twist in the complicated relationship between PSG and Spanish football since the player decided to continue his career in France.
The Spanish Football League has decided to file a complaint against the Parisian club for non-compliance with financial fair play.
Manchester City also targeted
It is the logical continuation of the fight that Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, has been waging for years against the so-called club-states: PSG, owned by Qatar, and Manchester City, which belongs to the United Arab Emirates. .
For the strong man of Spanish football, these two clubs jeopardize world football, because their funds would be unlimited.
According to him, they would circumvent the regulations as they please, in particular with financial fair play, set up by Michel Platini at UEFA in 2010 to avoid excessive spending by certain wealthy clubs.
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The Spanish leader believes that PSG, heavily in deficit in recent years, should not have had the right to offer Mbappé a new record contract.
A step far too late and undoubtedly doomed to failure, according to Arnaud Péricard, a lawyer specializing in sport.
"It is up to UEFA to say whether or not you are in the nails, but UEFA did not sanction PSG for a possible breach of its financial fair play regulations. “, he explains.