La Liga to file Neymar complaint against PSG
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SPAIN’S football league chief Javier Tebas said he will file a complaint with UEFA for financial fair play breaches against Paris Saint-Germain over its pursuit of Brazil superstar Neymar.
PSG is rumored to be weighing up a bid for the Barcelona forward at more than 200 million euros (US$263 million), enough to trigger the 25-year-old’s transfer release clause.
“La Liga will file this complaint because it’s a problem for La Liga’s competitiveness. Today it’s happened to Barca, tomorrow it could happen to Real Madrid, it’s happened to Atletico Madrid,” Tebas, the La Liga chairman, told Mundo Deportivo.
Should PSG bid, and then pay, the 222 million euros needed to prise Neymar from the Catalan capital, it would struggle to meet UEFA’s financial fair play conditions that limit a team to losses of no more than 30 million euros over a three-year cycle.
And that is despite a mega-money sponsorship deal with the Qatar tourism board.
According to Tebas, “no-one believes” the commercial revenue figures presented by PSG to justify its spending.
“PSG cannot have figures in which PSG’s commercial rights exceed those of Real Madrid and Barcelona,” said Tebas.
“No-one believes that. We’ve carried out economic studies and it’s impossible.
“It means that the Qatari state is injecting money and that violates UEFA’s financial fair play rules and the European Union’s norms of economic competition, and we’re going to file a complaint.”
In 2014, PSG was fined 60 million euros and handed transfer spending restrictions by UEFA for breaching financial fair play rules.
UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body has also stated that PSG’s 200 million euros a year image rights contract with the Qatari tourist board is inflated and double its “true value”.
PSG is owned by Oryx Qatar Sports Investments.
Barcelona, meanwhile, drew first blood against Real ahead of the new season with a 3-2 victory in a pulsating Clasico friendly in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, Reuters reports.
The historic rivals will meet again twice in August in the Spanish Super Cup and this International Champions Cup match set the entertainment bar high, with Barcelona maintaining its 100 per cent record in preseason.
“Physically we are in good shape, the team is winning, we just have to correct our errors,” Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets told Premier Sports.
“We’re happy for the win, it was a lot of fun for the fans because there were a lot of chances, although the players suffered in the heat and humidity.”
While Barcelona beat Juventus and Manchester United, Real’s defeat means it ends its preseason tour of the United States without a victory.
“I don’t care much about the defeat, it always hurts but right now it’s not the important thing,” said Real coach Zinedine Zidane. “It’s preseason. The results haven’t gone as hoped for but it will not change anything. The important thing is to be ready for August 8 (when Real faces Manchester United in the European Super Cup).”
Real was missing Cristiano Ronaldo, still on holiday, but both teams were close to full strength.
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