La Liga president Javier Tebas believes that Man City and PSG are putting European football in danger unless state-owned clubs can be controlled. The La Liga believes that they are run by wealthy countries and rules need to be enforced to keep spending sustainable. Premier League winners Manchester City are majority-owned by Sheikh Mansour of the United Arab Emirates, while the Emir of Qatar owns French champions PSG.
“We’re doing it to defend the football eco-system in Europe. We think European football is in danger. [We have] not been able to design a system to control the state-owned club,” La Liga president Javier Tebas said about Man City and PSG. “We’ve made official complaints about PSG for financial doping. Uefa has allowed losses because clubs reduced their turnover, but PSG increased their wage bill by an incredible amount during Covid. Their wages for 2021-22 were 600m euros. It is impossible. That is without including Mbappe. It is obvious they are not applying FFP [Financial Fair Play] rules. It is endangering the entire financial eco-system in Europe.”
At one point, Man City had 68% of its revenue from commercial income. Real Madrid was 54%. That is impossible. Man City as a brand is not worth that much. They were sanctioned but it was reversed. PSG is even more obvious. It is totally impossible. Contracts were inflated,” he added. “The majority of people in football try to control their financial status. It is not a problem they are owned by the state. It is the financial side.”
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