La Liga have announced plans to report PSG to UEFA over Kylian Mbappe’s contract renewal, independent.co.uk reports.
Mbappe was presented to the PSG fans at the Parc des Princes ahead of their final game of the season against Metz as his three-year contract was confirmed, but it came as the Spanish league said they would file a complaint with Europe’s football governing body.
Madrid have been trying to sign Mbappe for over a year and PSG last summer turned down a bid that was reportedly worth €200m, despite the 23-year-old only having one year remaining on his contract.
In turning down fresh offers to join the recently crowned La Liga champions as a free agent, Mbappe has signed a deal with PSG that will make him the highest-paid player in world football.
In a statement, La Liga called Mbappe’s decision to remain at PSG “scandalous” and an “attack on the economic stability of European football” that was as threatening to the game as the failed European Super League plans.
The Spanish league’s statement read: “La Liga will file a complaint against PSG before Uefa, the French administrative and fiscal authorities and European Union authorities to continue to defend the economic ecosystem of European football and its sustainability.
“In the past La Liga has complained to Uefa for non-compliance with financial fair play by PSG. These complaints were successful and Uefa sanctioned the club, while the Court of Artbitration for Sport (CAS), in a bizarre decision, reversed the sanctions.
“La Liga and many European football institutions had hope that PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi after entering bodies of European football management such as the Uefa Executive Committee and the presidency of the European Club Association (ECA) would abstain from these practices knowing they cause grave damage, but the opposite has been true. PSG is assuming an impossible investment, seeing that it has an unacceptable wage bill and large financial losses in prior seasons. It is violating current Uefa and French economic control rules.
“This behaviour demonstrates once more that state owned clubs do not respect and do not want to respect the rules of a sector as important as football. These rules are key to protect and sustain hundreds of thousands of jobs.
“This kind of behaviour led by Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, and member of the Uefa Executive Committee and president of ECA, endangers European football on the same level as the European Super League.”
Mbappe’s new deal at PSG drew anger from the president of La Liga, Javier Tebas, who said it was “dangerous”.
“What PSG are doing by renewing Mbappé with large sum after posting losses of €700M in recent seasons and having more than €600M of salary bill, is an insult to football,” he said on Twitter
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