Paris Saint-Germain has sent an angry letter to LaLiga front man Javier Tebas over his recent statements about the club. In the letter, club secretary Victoriano Melero lashes out at Tebas and the ‘mismanagement’ that would be conducted under his leadership in Spain. PSG is supported by the LFP: the umbrella body of clubs in France will publish a statement on Wednesday, calling on Tebas to review his ‘shameful’ statements.
PSG says in the letter that it is not pleased with the way Tebas expressed himself in a tweet last Wednesday. The LaLiga president questioned the state of affairs in Paris, where one star footballer after another was added to the payroll this summer and the salary house is apparently about to bulge. “State-owned clubs are just as dangerous to the football ecosystem as the Super League,” Tebas wrote. “We are critical of the Super League because it would destroy European football. We are just as critical on PSG. COVID losses: more than 300 million euros, TV revenues in France: – 40 percent. And then 500 million euros to salaries? That is unsustainable.”
PSG believes that Tebas ‘once again’ publicly attacks ‘Ligue 1, our club, our players, the players of other clubs and the supporters of French football’, ‘with insulting and defamatory claims that we are the Financial Fair Play -not following rules, among other unsubstantiated statements.’ “You yourself chose a strategy of financial expansion some time ago, without domestic regulation. Now you blame others for the consequences, while French football has been working with regulation for over twenty years. It is known that mismanagement can lead to unsustainable indebtedness to certain Spanish clubs and your league, not to mention the way Spanish football has been funded over the past decade, including by the state.”
The LFP fully supports PSG, the body reports in a statement. “The president’s words do not fit with the organization he represents and which we have always respected.” Tebas is called upon to revise his ‘shameful’ statements. “The LFP and LaLiga clearly don’t have the same vision of how organizations should interact with each other.” The LFP writes that Spanish clubs have “benefited for years from financial generosity”, which is said to have created the current problems in Spain. “It’s not Paris Saint-Germain’s fault. LaLiga has nothing to teach the LFP when it comes to financial control at clubs.”
Tebas was adamant at home when Barcelona couldn’t manage to sign Lionel Messi, even though he was the figurehead of the Spanish league. The organization behind the Spanish league imposes a salary limit on every club based on, among other things, the budget. Barcelona had to make huge cuts in salary costs due to a considerably lower budget, looked for a creative construction for Messi, but LaLiga did not flinch and the attacker eventually signed a contract for at least two years with PSG.
At PSG, on the other hand, there is no problem at all with getting the financial house in order. Messi, Georginio Wijnaldum, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Sergio Ramos logically earn a lot in the Parc des Princes, but were also brought in on a free transfer. For Achraf Hakimi, sixty million euros was transferred to Internazionale, while the previously rented Danilo Pereira definitely came over from FC Porto for more than fifteen million euros. In the closing hour, Nuno Mendes came over for a rent of seven million euros from Sporting Portugal, which accepted an option to buy for 40 million euros and the temporary arrival of Pablo Sarabia.