August 23 – FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus are among ten European elite clubs that may face sanctions for breaching Financial Fair Play rules.
The Times reports that several European clubs could be punished for not complying with the confederation’s Financial Fair Play rules.
UEFA is preparing to announce sanctions for clubs who breached the regulations up to the 2020-2021 season, including Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Roma and Juventus. Sanctions can range from fines to a transfer ban and exclusion from UEFA competitions.
London club Arsenal have reportedly been placed on a watchlist.
Last summer Arsenal outspent every other club, spending £140 million to bring Ben White, Aaron Ramsdale, Martin Odegaard, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Albert Sambi Lokonga and Nuno Tavares to North London.
In the last window, the London club spent £119,75 million on Gabriel Jesus, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Fabio Vieira, Matt Turner and Brazilian youngster Marquinhos.
This is the last season of the current FFP rules, which UEFA has revised. From 2023, the European governing body will introduce a new set of rules to set a cap on spending a percentage of their income on player salaries, transfers and agent fees.
The sanctions would be another test of UEFA’s willingness to enforce its own rules, in particular against the big clubs. FC Barcelona and Juventus are two of the Super League clubs that refuse to back down from the project.
In the past, UEFA has mostly come down hard on smaller clubs, though the European governing body did lose a high profile case against transfer sanctions imposed on Manchester City at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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