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– Javier Tebas, president of Spain’s La Liga, has been a staunch opponent of big-spending European clubs such as PSG and Manchester City, as well as the proposed European Super League.
– In a post on social media he said: “What PSG is going to do by renewing Mbappe with large amounts of money after losing 700m euros in recent seasons and having more than 600m euros in wages, is an INSULT to football.”
– According to a report published earlier this month by a supervisory body of the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the governing body of the French professional leagues, PSG made a loss of 224.3m euros during the 2020-21 season.
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– That came after a loss of 124.2m euros in 2019-20, when the Ligue 1 season was cut short in March 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
– Tebas also added PSG president Al-Khelaifi “is as dangerous as the Super League”.
– Real Madrid and Barcelona were among 12 leading European clubs that signed up for a breakaway competition last April, but the proposal collapsed within days following a backlash from players and fans, as well as governments and football’s governing bodies.
– PSG and Bayern Munich opposed the controversial plans.
– LaLiga will take legal action against Paris Saint-Germain over their renewal of Kylian Mbappe’s contract after the forward decided to snub a move to Real Madrid and stay in France.
– Moments before the announcement, LaLiga released a statement confirming that the league would be filing a complaint over an alleged breach of finance rules.
– “LaLiga will file a complaint against PSG before UEFA, the French administrative and fiscal authorities and European Union authorities to continue to defend the economic ecosystem of European football and its sustainability,” the statement read.
– “This type of agreement attacks the economic stability of European football, putting at risk hundreds of thousands of jobs and the integrity of the sport,” it continued. “It is scandalous that a club like PSG … can close such an agreement while those clubs that could afford the hiring of the player without seeing their wage bill compromised are left without being able to sign him. … PSG is assuming an impossible investment, seeing that it has an unacceptable wage bill and large financial losses in prior seasons. It is violating current UEFA and French economic control rules.”
Official statement: La Liga announce they have now reported Paris Saint-Germain to UEFA because of Kylian Mbappé deal. 🚨 #Mbappé
“This is a scandal. We will now report PSG to Uefa, French autorities and EU authorities”. ⤵️📑 pic.twitter.com/ZFFtZN4eTl
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) May 21, 2022
– The forward, who had been widely expected to join Madrid when his existing deal expires on June 30, has now signed a new three-year contract with PSG, the French champions announced Saturday.
– The La Liga statement, released after Tebas’ tweet, said it was “scandalous that a club like PSG” could agree such a contract “while those clubs that could accept the arrival of the player without seeing their wage bill compromised are left without being able to sign him”.
– La Liga said PSG were “not respecting the rules” and repeated many of the accusations made by its president.
