PSG To Fall Foul Of UEFA's FFP Investigation - Report
Zeeshan Mehtab Published April 11, 2018 | 09:31 PM
Free-spending French giants Paris Saint-Germain are set to face UEFA sanctions for breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP), according to a report by the Financial Times on Wednesday that claims PSG "overstated" sponsorship contracts to the tune of 200 million euros.
London, United Kingdom, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Apr, 2018 ) :Free-spending French giants Paris Saint-Germain are set to face UEFA sanctions for breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP), according to a report by the Financial Times on Wednesday that claims PSG "overstated" sponsorship contracts to the tune of 200 million euros.
Bankrolled by Qatari owners, PSG smashed the world transfer record by signing Brazilian star Neymar for 222 million Euros in August and committed to completing another 180-million-euro deal for French teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe this summer when agreeing a one-year loan deal from Monaco a few weeks later.
Introduced by European football's governing body in 2010, FFP limits clubs to making losses of no more than EUR30m over three seasons. "Preliminary investigations show that sponsorship contracts worth about EUR200m have been 'overstated' at the Qatari-owned football club," said the Financial Times report.
"Unless UEFA can be persuaded to assign a higher value to the sponsorship deals, the French club is on course to breach FFP rules, according to people familiar with the process." UEFA opened an investigation into PSG's compliance with FFP just weeks after the deals for Neymar and Mbappe were completed.
"The investigation will focus on the compliance of the club with the break-even requirement, particularly in light of its recent transfer activity," said a UEFA statement in September. PSG have already fallen foul of FFP.
The club was fined 60 million euros in prize money earned from playing in the Champions League in 2014. Back then UEFA deemed PSG had artificially inflated their income using a sponsorship deal with another Qatari state-owned enterprise, the Qatar Tourism Authority.
"The contract between PSG and the Qatar Tourism Authority has been carefully considered and a fair value, significantly below that submitted by the club, has been assigned," UEFA ruled at the time.
The sanctions could be far tougher for a second offence, with the possibility that PSG could even be excluded from competing in the Champions League unless they balance their accounts by the end of the club's financial year in June.
With Neymar sidelined by injury, PSG's attempts to win the Champions League for a first time fell flat again last month as they were dumped out 5-2 on aggregate by reigning champions Real Madrid in the last 16.
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