Tebas keeps PSG’s owners in the spotlight claiming club breaches ‘purpose’ of FFP

September 28 – Javier Tebas doesn’t like to be silenced. The La Liga boss reignited his war of words with French giants Paris Saint-Germain, accusing the club of breaching “the purpose of Financial Fair Play.”

Last month Tebas dubbed PSG “the enemy” after the club acquired the services of Argentinean superstar Lionel Messi. The Parisians reacted furiously, branding the attacks as “insulting” and “unsubstantiated”, but Tebas, in a latest escalation, refused to back down and wrote in a letter to PSG general secretary Victoriano Melero, as seen by the Associated Press, that “PSG’s finances have been kept afloat thanks to the multi-million euro contributions of its shareholder over the last three seasons.”

His words are a direct attack on PSG’s ownership model. Qatar Sports Investment acquired the club in 2011, lifting PSG to super club status with almost unlimited funding. Tebas said that the club’s finances “breach the content and, more importantly, the purpose of Financial Fair Play, despite the acquittal by the CAS for technical reasons.”

He wrote that at PSG “sponsorships and other contracts are used that are not in line with market conditions and do not make economic sense.”

Tebas added that LaLiga officials had estimated PSG’s wage bill for the season will be around €540 million.

In 2019, PSG won a Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal against an attempt by UEFA investigators to reopen a previously closed FFP investigation against the club. In 2014, the club forfeited €20 million (then $23 million) of Champions League prize money in a settlement to prevent a drawn-out legal battle.

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