UEFA investigates more than 20 clubs in Europe for failing to comply with financial fair play

At least a dozen major clubs in Europe would have been sanctioned next month by UEFA for non-compliance with the rules imposed by the so-called “correctness” financial, as revealed by the British press on Tuesday.

The newspaper Times published that among the teams involved (there would be more than 20 institutions) are Juventus, Inter, Rome, Arsenal, Barcelona, ​​Paris Saint Germain and Olympique de Marseilleall “under the magnifying glass” of UEFA who are investigating them for violating the rules until the 2020-2021 season.

The rules imposed by UEFA allow only 30 million euros of losses in three yearsalthough they exclude those caused during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to UEFA French clubs such as PSG and Olympique de Marseille would only be subject to economic sanctionswhile for the Italians of Inter and Roma the restrictions would also be those of intervening on the market and of any hiring of players, according to the Italian newspaper Tuttosoport.

The English vehicle warns that this is only an investigation launched by UEFA, without the guilt of the clubs involved having already been ascertained, but also clarifies the intention to Alessandro Ceferino, president of the institution, to comply with the threats and to get serious in economic matters and financial fair play. The usual threats may now be consolidated.

It has also been clarified by UEFA that if the clubs under investigation do not cooperate in the lawsuit, the punishment could go further and bring the sanction to the sports field, with the suppression of points in competitions, depriving them of being able to compete in European competitions or prevent them from making transfers. .

The facts that put clubs on alert

The two most remembered recent cases that could lead to expulsion from European competitions for violating UEFA’s economic control were those of PSG and Manchester City. The former escaped the 19-20 season sanction before the Lausanne Sports Arbitration Tribunal (TAS) because the European organization headed by Ceferin was not energetic with the reopening of the dossier that its independent jury decided to open. City, again against TAS, managed to avoid the two-year punishment without having played in European competitions, but he had to pay ten million euros.

It showed that the documentation submitted was correct in a high percentage and did not hide relevant economic information, as could happen with the teams that are now in the spotlight. Both the French and English clubs were repeat offenders and therefore exposed themselves to sporting sanctions. In 2014 they had to shell out 60 million euros and could only enter 21 players in the Champions League and not 25. According to legal sources consulted by the Spanish newspaper El País, this measure could also affect the clubs currently under investigation. Málaga, in 2013, Galatasaray in 2016, and AC Milan, in 2018, were expelled from European competitions.

A similar case occurred in 2015, when a total of ten teams agreed with UEFA to pay the fines and the reduction in the number of players entered in European competitions for violation of economic control. The sanctioned teams were Inter, Roma, Monaco, Sporting Lisbon, Besiktas, Krasnodar, Lokomotiv Moscow, CSKA Sofia, Karabukspor and Rostov.