Apparently they can.
I find it more disgusting that a group is willing to pay Neymar 222m to supposedly promote the world cup (But really just the buy-out) brand while using borderline slavery to build the stadiums for said World Cup.
Agreed. La Liga and Barca are far from the perfect messengers, but someone had to step up. I hope the rest of the old G-14 and eventually 18 (although PSG was a part of this prior to Qatari ownership) stand in solidarity and challenge UEFA to act in the name of FFP. It is in all of our long-term interests.
Think the latter would be the lesser of two evils tbh. Allowing PSG and City to casually spend hundreds of millions of pounds of oil money will feck over everyone else.
No other transfer that involved a player buying out his contract has included such an absurd amount of money that it could be challenged this way.
Fair point, but this is why UEFA/FIFA need to step up like @Raoul said. La Liga, it seems don't have legal grounds to take a stand.
These are my thoughts too. Even if UEFA look at it retrospectively and decide FFP has been breached, the damage has been done -- PSG still get to employ Neymar. In fact, if PSG think there's a chance they'll be punished with (for example) a transfer ban, why not just buy all the players now and take a couple of years out of the transfer market. Doesn't make much odds to them really.
May still be held illegal if it goes to court.Apparently they can.
You talk as if you know what the release clause is and how it works. Clearly that's not true.
Was only asking if anyone here had any knowledge about the rumour. Agree with what you say but it would certainly go a long way towards making the deal viable re. FFP though.
Neymar and PSG will easily win this in court. They explicitly changed the rules last summer to allow clubs to pay release clauses on player's behalf (most La Liga clubs are in debt that they cannot pay) but now that this harms their darling, they decided to go against the rules.Apparently they can.
You talk as if you know what the release clause is and how it works. Clearly that's not true.
If I was The French FA I would release Mbappe's registration until Spain releases Neymar's
Maybe, maybe not. I imagine La Liga know what they are doing.
Apparently Spanish clubs can do that, not all clubs.
Absolutely, I agree. It's a joke that all these external funds can be pumped into a random club like PSG. Same with what happened with City.
Bale and Ronaldo have clauses worth 1 billion euros. Barca should have done the same for Neymar.
Financial fair play is enforced in retrospect, not advance. It simply wouldnt make sense to tell rich clubs with huge value in saleable assets that they cant afford to buy an expensive player. Theyre quite capable of balancing the books in theory.
That was the case up to last year, with United and Bayern needing to find workaround solutions for Herrera and Martinez. Last year, La Liga changed the rules to make it straightforward and both Spanish and foreign clubs can just pay the clause.
It puts massive pressure on UEFA to act, and it depends on who else may be supporting Barca and La Liga in the background. This may be the line in the sand from the historically great clubs who are independently wealthy and don't need sugar daddies to challenge UEFA on this. They are already annoyed about the Qatari World Cup breaking up their season in 2022, and FFP was a response to appease the old g-14.
Especially when they already fully knew that Neymar and Co are money grabbing leeches. Such a poor show on their part.
No they won't, it's PSG who will look silly.
Thing is, PSG will be totally fine cause on financial sheets, the transfer is divided per number of years on his contract. So, for this year, it will be just 40m or so (assuming that he signs a 5 year contract). If PSG sells Di Maria and Lucas for example, their net spent would be the same as that of United and lower than City's.
