Javier Thebes He participated in a meeting of the Club Consultative Platform (CAP) and insisted again that the state clubs, such as City and PSG, do not comply with the rules of economic ‘fair play’ and for this reason, LaLiga has denounced them.
“The problem is not that a state is the owner of a club, like PSG and City. The problem is that normally these types of clubs are those that have reprehensible conduct in the economic field, of the rules of the financial ‘Fair Play’ and future norms. These reprehensible behaviors are perfectly identifiable”, affirmed Thebes.
The president of LaLiga He went on to say about these clubs that “inflate their sponsorships” and carry out “operations without economic sense. In addition, they relocate payments from their countries to take them to their states and stay out of economic control, and for formal purposes it gives the feeling that it is being fulfilled. And the third way is that they don’t have a problem with losses.”
Javier Tebas, focusing on the PSG, He assured that “it is impossible that he can have 200 million euros more in commercial income, an indication is his followers on social networks -60 million for 120 of Real Madrid”, he said, to add that “UEFA allowed more losses due to the pandemic, by decreasing income, but PSG increased their wage bill in times of COVID They will end up with 600 million euros of wage bill in the 21-22 season, not counting the renewal of Mbappe. It is evident that the rules of the financial ‘Fair Play’ are not being complied with, it puts the entire ecosystem of European football at risk.”
Thebes regretted that so much lto UEFA as the domestic competitions, including LaLiga, have not been able to control the state clubs. “The three clubs in the Super League are trying to strengthen themselves, rightly so, with this argument, they say that UEFA is not capable of fighting against the state clubs and they accuse them, on occasions, of coexistence,” assured the president of LaLiga, to add that “For this reason, these state clubs do a lot of damage to the football ecosystem, because they compete unfairly, with an inflating effect in terms of salaries, and question the credibility of UEFA and the financial control system. That is why it is important to denounce it and say it clearly.
On complaint presented by LaLiga against PSG and Manchester City, Thebes explained that “do the clubs or the leagues have a responsibility towards our hierarchically superior institutions? Am I obliged to report when I consider irregularities to exist? I think so, and that is also governance”, he pointed out, adding that “if we looked at another side in matters of economic control and the cheating that is done would breach our governance rules. We want the competition to be as clean as possible and these clubs do a lot of damage to economic control,” said Tebas.
Javier Thebes believes there is a “clear conflict of interest” between Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, Bein Sports and the European Club Association and UEFA. “He is a buyer of UEFA rights, we have to denounce him. We are not doing it to defend the Spanish clubs, who have enough with our most demanding economic control, we are doing it to safeguard the ecosystem of European football, which is in danger,” he said. .
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