No one really cares. If Barcelona buy Coutinho, it is football money being shuffled around. When PSG is buying Neymar, this is Arab oil and natural gas money coming into European football. I think FFP is just a way for UEFA to show that they care. Ultimately, Qatar's money is raising the profile of French football and creating another European giant that will increase the marketability of the game internationally.
Kylian Mbappé joins PSG on one year loan with option to buy
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No one really cares. If Barcelona buy Coutinho, it is football money being shuffled around. When PSG is buying Neymar, this is Arab oil and natural gas money coming into European football. I think FFP is just a way for UEFA to show that they care. Ultimately, Qatar's money is raising the profile of French football and creating another European giant that will increase the marketability of the game internationally.
Rooney had almost finished his first year at us when he was approaching 19! Mbappe 6 months in no way equates to that. Rooney made his debut at 16, thats a lot of football and a lot of wow moments
Sounds bullshit, but after the Neymar transfer...
After acquiring Neymar, PSG owner concluded that PSG was worth 500m more overnight. Once they get Mbappe they would have become about a billion Euro more valuable in space of a few weeks. It's just good business sense if you ask me.
Both careers are different, comparisons like that are pointless. Saying that 'this player had played in this or that game/tournament' is a bit irrelevant I think. Those are just the games that were there to play at the time. Mbappé, contrary to rhetoric, has been playing for more than '6 months' too. He made his debut last season too at little above 16 himself, but again, that means nothing. Messi was also older than 16 when he made his debut.
What matters is simply how good both are/were - and for me, simply from watching both play football in the games that they were out in to play, Mbappé is not inferior to what Rooney was. He's a force of nature, just as Rooney was.
I don't know the ins and outs of FFP, but surely there are regulations in place to prevent their owners from doing these sketchy deals to bypass it?
The problem is how you prove that a sponsorship deal is not legitimately due to your standing as a football club, but because of who owns you. UEFA's regulatory authority doesn't extend quite that far.
There was talk about judging the legitimacy of sponsorship deals and requiring such deals not being related to owners, but then UEFA accepted both PSG's sponsorship and the City Etihad deal at face-value, pretty much killing any hope any of us had of putting a brake on the sugar daddy revolution in the sport. And now here we are.
Mbappe and Neymar.
What a front two that could be.
What a front two that could be.
Genuinely hopes he flops if he does move there. Paying that sort of money for a teenager who's played half a season is ridiculous.
That and I have 3-1 odds on him staying a Monaco
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That and I have 3-1 odds on him staying a Monaco
.Fair enough, it looks like both PSG and City have virtually unlimited funds then. Interesting that Chelsea still don't spend comparatively as lavishly as when Abramovich initially took over.
Fake sponsorships from Qatar
Where are you getting this crap??
In 2-3 years it has to be the best front two in football. Hell, it might be sooner than that depending on how Suarez-Messi and Ronaldo-Benzema duos age.
They need competition. Playing against Ligue 1 defences each week won't challenge them to improve. It'll breed complacency.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sports...ys-money-not-motive-for-joining-psg-1.3532895
I was just pointing out the oilonomics.
Well hello Fifa 18 team of choice, PSG! 
Guaranteed to make the CL quarters
possibilities:
PSG know they couldn't comply with FFP anyways after neymar and decided to just go feck it, let's go for it
PSG believe the impact of neymar and mbappé will give a massive boost to their finances
PSG believe UEFA will look the other way so as to not lose Neymar and Mbappé from the competition
PSG know they couldn't comply with FFP anyways after neymar and decided to just go feck it, let's go for it
PSG believe the impact of neymar and mbappé will give a massive boost to their finances
PSG believe UEFA will look the other way so as to not lose Neymar and Mbappé from the competition
Somewhere between 2 or 3 I believe. I'd have a long hard look at the sponsorship deals they get from now on. I don't dispute that for the likes of Nike, PSG is now a huge product, but a Ligue 1 club is simply not on the global consciousness in the way the top PL sides or the Spanish Giants for that matter.
This will certainly not be the case.
Rashford must be worth about 70m
In the current market? I'd say at least 85 or 90. I wonder if this is a bubble or an ongoing trend though
No way any team would pay that much. He's not rated as highly as the others and there is not that kind of hype around him.
This is a fecking joke. Shambolic behaviour from PSG. If there are no repercussions then say goodbye to competing with the likes of City.
Would never be sold so whoever wanted him would have to pay over the odds, I reckon 110-130m...
So much for Real Madrid.
Realistically, I don't think anyone would go above 65m. Obviously, we wouldn't sell either
Lol, why would Mbappe move to PSG now while RM are interested? It's almost a step down, from the Ligue 1 winners.
Have to wonder how PSG are gonna comply with FFP if they go through with this. Just 3 years ago they respected FFP so much that they couldn't sign Di Maria for £45m from RM. What changed exactly?
Have to wonder how PSG are gonna comply with FFP if they go through with this. Just 3 years ago they respected FFP so much that they couldn't sign Di Maria for £45m from RM. What changed exactly?
Maybe they found a loophole
There were rumors that Neymar would be paid directly by Qatar and sign a contract in Qatar as a world cup ambassador to avoid tax, and for PSG to avoid FFP. Not sure if that's true or not.
3 years ago PSG was under sanctions for not respecting FFP, now the finances are in great shape.
I don't know exactly in which conditions PSG could buy Mbappé on top of Neymar. It's not impossible but may just be rumours to drive the player price up.
The UEFA made it clear that a player transfer will be counted in the club accounts whatever way a release clause is paid.
I seriously doubt got any club willing to bid 35mln pound for him.
Without knowing anything about Neymar's deal or the potential Mbappe deal, I could think of a couple of ways to cook the books. The easiest would be the image rights of these players that PSG could potentially own. Qatar employs Neymar and perhaps Mbappe as ambassadors for ridiculous amounts of money which would repay PSG in image rights.
Qatar world cup is in exactly 5 years from now, which is also the length of Neymar's contract. He could easily be employed as the ambassador for the world cup for next 5 years at, say, 60-70 million a year and a healthy percentage of it could go straight to PSG.
Gotta ask, did you watch the Euro 2004 tournament?
Because it sounds a lot like something someone who wasn't watching his performances back then would say. He was the star of the tournament. The most exceptional teenager to play the game. As the question asked, he was already, by that time, far more accomplished than Mbappe in his career, and he was playing against bigger talents.
Rooney had yet to have the type of performances Mbappe had in the CL.
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