The Spanish Football League, La Liga, through French lawyer Juan Branco, will file a lawsuit before the French judiciary to prevent the ratification of Kylian Mbappe’s new contract with Paris Saint-Germain, considering it “illegal” because it violates the rules of play.Fair play in the European Union
If the French judge does not make a decision in favor of La Liga, action will be requested from the European Commission and a case in the EU Court of Justice is not ruled out
“We are looking for a new resolution like the Boseman (law), which liberalized the market (1995), said Branko at a press conference organized today in a Paris hotel. What we want now is for the market to be regulated and for the (financial) rules to be like the (Spanish) League, it’s very strict”
Branco, 32, is clear that the first legal initiative will be to ask the French Sports Minister, Amelie Odea-Castera, to cancel the contractual approvals of all signed PSG players as of June 25, 2021, the date of his last inspection. French authorities
This will include Mbappe’s new contract, worth an investment of €500 million over three years, and Lionel Messi’s contract, which Paris Saint-Germain signed in August 2021 and which has also been subject to legal action since then. Then Branko himself led at the request of a group of FC Barcelona partners
The lawyer appointed by the Spanish League announced that it is also preparing an appeal in the administrative field of the French championship to conduct an inspection of the accounts of Paris Saint-Germain through the National Directorate of Control and Administration, a health supervisory body for sports financing. entities in France
“Today, Mbappe cannot play for PSG. We know it will be difficult (to win in French justice), considering that President Emmanuel Macron himself asked him to stay
Branco stressed that he is confident that this process will finally flourish in European examples, considering that a club such as Paris Saint-Germain, owned by a Qatari sovereign wealth fund for 11 years, is violating the rules of free competition that govern the single market of the European Union
For this reason, it will urge the European Commission (EC) to rule on this matter, also taking into account that PSG failed to comply with the balance between income and expenses set by the French championship itself thanks – according to Branco’s complaint – to the successive moratorium. granted to the Parisian entity
He said, “It was planned that this season 180 million euros would enter player sales to achieve a financial balance, and he sold only one player for 7 million, and on top of that he renewed Mbappe.”
The lawyer denounced the “conflict of interest” between the French League and Qatar, accusing the French authorities of preferring Paris Saint-Germain to postpone the application of the financial “fair play” rules because the French championship depends – in his opinion – on Qatari funds
He also accused that “state clubs or oligarchs” such as Paris Saint-Germain or Manchester City undermine European football, by forcing clubs such as Real Madrid or Barcelona, which respect the regulations, to increase income from stadium tickets or sale. T-shirts to be equally competitive
The lawyer representing the Spanish League made another, more complex and indirect accusation. He said that Qatar’s huge investments in Paris Saint-Germain are forcing the emirate to raise the price of gas it sells to Europe
“Qatar’s money is not as magical as you might think, what Mbappe spent is paid by each of us as consumers of electricity
Paris Saint-Germain, very quiet
As for PSG, it is not at all interested in this maneuver by the association’s lawyers and they believe that the press conference is full of contradictions, apart from the presence of more employees of the league itself than the media communications.
If Florentino Perez understood that a large part of the diseases of the League are due to its president, in this case, it is strange that Nasser Al-Khelaifi would agree. They believe that the attorney’s arguments have little weight and that there are already decisions on most of the allegations he proposes. They believe that it completely ignores all the accusations against La Liga clubs and its responsibility to distort the entire system
In the French league itself, they were surprised because he attacks La Liga as an economic body that sells its TV rights, in something that the Spanish League does in the same way. On the other hand, it doesn’t make sense when he talks about the European Commission and European principles while two LaLiga clubs are competing for closed leagues with the future Super League
