They sound painfull
Neymar joins PSG on a five year deal
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They have been officially cleared a few weeks ago by UEFA regarding financial fairplay so they don't have to stick to the 60M€ limit per player anymore which had already been softened and last season they spent a total of 144M€ in two transfer windows. This summer they have not spent anything so they obviously have much financial power left - Berchiche transfer has been almost entirely funded by selling Augustin and Sabaly, and they still have a few fringe players in Ben Arfa, Jesé, Krychowiak and Bahebeck.
The only limit they have is the one of 30M€ financial loss for 2017-2018 but they could do one big transfer if they reach an agreement over yearly instalments for the payment or yearly bonuses. In France it's been reported for months that they expect to be able to fund one big transfer far over the 100M€ bareer. It could go further up if they add to this number a few sales like Matuidi, Aurier and one fringe player out of Krychowiak and Jesé (they could get around 50M€ from summer sales, maybe even more if they managed to sell both Jesé and Krycho at a fair price).
They fell of the 5th position as richest club in the world with a budget of over 500M€ but they remain 6th and still expect to improve many financial metrics, esp. matchday revenue and sponsoring and they had an 8% rise from 2015 to 2016 in revenue. Manchester City are around the same position as PSG regarding revenue and they spent 213M€ last summer with a 2016 budget of 524M€ according to Deloitte vs 520M€ for Paris, so it does not sound impossible at all if they just make this one big signing. PSG has already spent 150M€ in a window in its recent history but on several players and with less revenues (2012-2013 with Thiago Silva, Ibra, Lavezzi and Lucas). Having bought Berchiche and Alves, they're kind of done apart from a forward which they absolutely need. They can definitely do with their current 3 central defenders and could wait a few months for a midfielder if it means landing Neymar.
I doubt this will happen though, but I wouldn't doubt the possibility for Paris to be able to offer 150 to 200M€.
Their record transfer is for Cavani so far.
Don't forget the fee they paid for David Luiz as well.
Didnt they recoup that when they sold him back?
Surely they would have had negotiations with the player before activating the release clause? If Dimarzio is right of course.
Because their appeal isn't half as big as people seem to think.
We have already spent over 100m this summer, and with Neymar it would be 300m net spent, without counting some money we will need to spend in a midfielder. We are rich, but not that rich. There is no way that we can spend 300m+ in a summer, we simply do not have that money (especially in this case where the entire money needs to be payed upfront). Our revenue is around 600m pounds, when you count the wages and other expenses, there aren't 300m pounds there for transfers (unless we take a loan).
Might have.
Bought for 50 mil pounds and sold for 34 mil pounds(reportedly). Could have covered all his remaining wages.
They probably are now that you mention it.
FFP existed back then, it doesn't exist now.
That's not really important to the point you were making and it's even less important when a big number of the players who are stars in PL come from leagues like Ligue 1, it should tell you something about the quality of players in the league.
Ligue 1 isn't sexy, it's not marketable and it's young. The people that never watch the league equate it to a lack of quality but it's not the case, to understand the league you need to understand this simple thing, the best players in the league are between 18 and 24(at the exception of PSG), those players are genuinely talented but inexperienced and inconsistent that's why french teams tend to not perform in Europe.
That's why the league isn't predictable because you can't really tell which team is going to be in or out of form. The only thing you know is that at the exception of the relegation candidates anyone can beat anyone but PSG being the most consistent team they have a big advantage.
Most Brazilians end their career washed up sooner or later. Perhaps Neymar is a party boy and prefers the easy life in Paris.
FFP exists now.
The physicality of the PL was not the issue with Di Maria
Officially yes. It doesn't exist for the rich clubs though. Just look at City's or Milan's spending. Milan has 214m on revenue, and already spent as much on transfers this summer.
Exactly. He couldn't cope with the league for a myriad of issues. Countless position switching, LVG, Di Maria himself not wanting to be there, Di Maria going into a shell after the burglary, and him being a bit of a softie(mentally).
The physicality wasn't one of them.
It's not meant to target rich clubs, so obviously it doesn't apply to them.
PSG was under financial fairplay limits but got them removed, simple as that. The stadium has been improved and matchday revenue is growing, TV rights in France remain far way behing England but slowly improved, PSG has done a huge marketing and merchandising work and is bulking up its sponsorship revenue, so there's nothing really surprising. Some might talk about the Qatar sponsorship contract but it's not like a European soccer association could really challenge the ROI of a brand & marketing campaign by a country...
Indeed which makes all the FFP talk about Paris, City and co. pointless. It doesn't exist for them, which is fine.
FFP was Platini's child and he had already talked about relaxing it. Now that he is out of power, there is no FFP for the likes of PSG (and in fact, this is a good thing).
The sponsorship deals are bullshit. Everyone knows that. Your owner sponsoring you is a workaround way of your owning giving you money.
That part is wrong because Qatar actually use PSG for publicity, it's the reason why they purchased. PSG isn't a toy for a rich man.
They don't represent market value though, which is what FFP is made to scrutinize.
Sure, but there were some rules that the owner cannot sponsor the club, because that is just a way of sending money to the club.
I found the entire idea of clubs not being able to spend what they want a bit idiotic to be fair, which is why I don't have problems with City/PSG spending this much money. I find hypocritical when their fans talk about their commercial growth which is bullshit. Cut the money from the owners and the clubs will need to sell players in order to not go bankrupt. But yeah, the fifth and sixth clubs with the highest revenue.
Yeah and have people actually watched South American Football? It is extremely physical. You would shocked by some of the challenges. I hate this idea that people here have that the PL is much more physical than anywhere else. Football can be physical everywhere England seems to be the only that uses physicality as a selling point.
I watch it but my brother is a fanatic. It's fecking brutal. Don't know why people don't get arrested. Often reallly really bad
You are wrong about the first part, the rule isn't that the owner cannot sponsor the club but that the sponsoring respect market's value, that the FFP calls fair value. You can have commercial deals with your own club but you can't artificially inflate their value. That's the job of the CFCB to monitor those deals.
Why do people keep giving credence to this Di Marzio person and claiming he's reliable?
More obvious shite seems to have eminated from him than any other journo of late
More obvious shite seems to have eminated from him than any other journo of late
There is no clause for DdG. That expired as far as I know.
if there is even the slightest chance this is true, we should remortgage and get this guy! Also open a load of Brazillian resturants, create an artificial beach, have a carnival every month, hire people to follow him with electric heaters wherever he goes....
There's was definitely some games where he was nullified physically and ended up frustrated and playing shit.
Well Barsa's lack of liquidity would get sorted out in an instant, wouldn't it?
Of PSG sign neymar for 200m we'll probably sign nathan redmond for 210m, to maintain the status quo. Nobody should be seen to be as recklessly frivolous as us!
Like in every other leagues.
He was much more comfortable in la Liga no?
Wow. You managed to translate that into Pakistani Rupee.
I thought we could buy whole Lahore from this kind of money
He was playing for a far better team, he was more protected by referees but not more comfortable per se. The real difference between the PL and other leagues is the refereeing and the never-say-die mentality that the bottom half sometimes have, it means that English teams will have to push for a little bit longer than italian, french or spanish top clubs and that's less true in Germany.
Difference is PSG can afford Neymar while Barca can't get anywhere near Verratti. Would be brilliant if PSG pull this off!
Yes! Do it, please!
Surely FFP would be an issue here?
It was meant to target sugar daddy clubs originally and even sanctioned PSG & City in the short time it did what it was designed to do. Platini himself even coined the term 'financial doping' to describe it. They were sanctioned for having overvalued in house sponsorship deal to fluff their figures. FFP was Platini's big idea when foreign investment was largely concentrated in the Premier League but once PSG were bought and paying his son a 6 figure yearly salary he seemed to have a change of heart on the mechanics of it, which meant those clubs could spend what they liked. Quelle surprise.
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