Organizer of Spanish topflight, La Liga, are planning to take Paris Saint-Germain before UEFA, after Kylian Mbappe signed a three-year contract extension with the Ligue 1 champions on Saturday, independent.co.uk reports.
Mbappe was presented to the PSG fans at the Parc des Princes ahead of their final game of the season against Metz as his three-year contract was confirmed, but it came as the Spanish league said they would file a complaint with Europe’s football governing body.
Madrid have been trying to sign Mbappe for over a year and PSG last summer turned down a bid that was reportedly worth €200m, despite the 23-year-old only having one year remaining on his contract.
In turning down fresh offers to join the recently crowned La Liga champions as a free agent, Mbappe has signed a deal with PSG that will make him the highest-paid player in world football.
In a statement, La Liga called Mbappe’s decision to remain at PSG “scandalous” and an “attack on the economic stability of European football” that was as threatening to the game as the failed European Super League plans.
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The Spanish league’s statement read: “La Liga 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.
“In the past La Liga has complained to Uefa for non-compliance with financial fair play by PSG. These complaints were successful and Uefa sanctioned the club, while the Court of Artbitration for Sport (CAS), in a bizarre decision, reversed the sanctions.
“La Liga and many European football institutions had hope that PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi after entering bodies of European football management such as the Uefa Executive Committee and the presidency of the European Club Association (ECA) would abstain from these practices knowing they cause grave damage, but the opposite has been true. 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.
“This behaviour demonstrates once more that state owned clubs do not respect and do not want to respect the rules of a sector as important as football. These rules are key to protect and sustain hundreds of thousands of jobs.
“This kind of behaviour led by Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, and member of the Uefa Executive Committee and president of ECA, endangers European football on the same level as the European Super League.”
Mbappe’s new deal at PSG drew anger from the president of La Liga, Javier Tebas, who said it was “dangerous”.
“What PSG are doing by renewing Mbappé with large sum after posting losses of €700M in recent seasons and having more than €600M of salary bill, is an insult to football,” he said on Twitter
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When a La Liga club was paying Messi an outrageous salary for more than 5 years untill they ran into a financial crisis, it wasn’t “scandalous”. Did you go to court?
When the same La Liga club received €200m for Neymar’s sale about 4years ago, it wasn’t “scandalous” then too.
Simply because it’s not in your favor, now its a scandal. HYPOCRITE.
The whole world is saturated with the desire to make bundles of money. Any how you make it doesn’t matter.
How old is Mbappe? How old is Neymar? How old is Messi? How old is Christiano Ronaldo? Many sports men and women are making money, even the disable. At very young age. It’s not bad but it has its effect.
As they are making, others who are not into sports or the IT world resort to others means to get their own money to get a taste of the world’s entertainment, eating and drinking, Travelling to place and have all the good things of life.
Crime is on the rise. Drug pushing and human trafficking is on the rise. Gambling is on the rise. Prostitution is on the rise. Professional Assassins are ate the rise. Child labor.
The internet fraud [419] is one way to get the type of money these guys are making.
No one is talking about God, the Creator of the universe. Meanwhile the way Noah’s World was destroyed, so too this world we are living in today will be destroyed with the wickedpeople.
Majority of humans today just go along with knowing what is coming. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed too.
Be on the alert as we don’t know the hour of destruction. Be on the watch.
Money is good but it make one not think about God. People are stabbing themselves because of money.