The Spanish football league has filed a complaint with the European association UEFA against the French champions Paris Saint-Germain for violating financial fair play.
A similar complaint was filed against Manchester City in April, the LaLiga announced on Wednesday.
The background to the lawsuit is the extremely high-paying contract with which the PSG owners from the Emirate of Qatar persuaded star striker Kylian Mbappé to stay. Spain were convinced the 23-year-old would join Champions League winners Real Madrid in the summer after his old contract expired on June 30.
Allegations against PSG and Manchester City
LaLiga laments that Paris and Abu Dhabi-backed English champions Manchester City are “continuously violating applicable financial fair play rules”. It is believed that such practices “change the ecosystem and sustainability of football, are detrimental to all European clubs and leagues and only serve to artificially inflate the market, with the money not being generated in football itself”.
There have already been sanctions from the European Football Union against both “state clubs”. However, these were later “overturned by bizarre judgments” of the International Court of Arbitration for Sports Cas.
New contract until 2025
Law firms in France and Switzerland have therefore also been commissioned with the aim of taking administrative and legal steps with the responsible authorities in France and the European Union as quickly as possible, it said.
Mbappe has played for PSG since 2017. Since then he has won the French championship four times and the cup three times. To this day, he has not been able to win the Champions League title that the club management longs for, even alongside other superstars such as Neymar and Lionel Messi. In May, the 2018 world champion signed a new contract in Paris until June 30, 2025.