Mbappe escalates the conflict between the elites
Kylian Mbappe’s decision to stay in Paris is a major concern for the bosses of European football. It all started with the statement of Florentin Perez “They destroyed your childhood dream” and the threat to the Parisian club by the court from the president of La Liga, Javier Tebas.
La Liga president sees collusion between PSG and UEFA
Let us briefly recall Tebas ‘s claim : “What PSG is doing, with losses of 700 million euros in recent years and a salary fund of more than 600 million euros, is an insult to football. Al-Khelaifi is as dangerous as the Super League.” Immediately after the extension of the contract, La Liga announced that it was taking PSG to court and would not back down. The league’s statement read Tebas’s position: “We hoped that Nasser Al-Khelaifi, having become a member of the UEFA executive committee and head of the Association of European Clubs, would refrain from such a practice in the future and realize that it was harmful, but everything turned out the other way around. Investing in PSG is unthinkable. This is not normal. This behavior once again demonstrates that the state clubs do not respect and do not want to respect the rules of such an important area as football. And these rules are necessary to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs. This behavior of the president of PSG puts European football at risk of the level of creation of the European Super League. Only on the other side.”
Bosses of PSG and UEFA rudely answered Tebas
PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi did not hesitate to answer: “Maybe Javier Tebas is worried that Ligue 1 is getting stronger than La Liga? La Liga is not the same as 3-4 years ago. Mbappe is with us, he stays, and I don’t care about the rest. Money is not the main thing for Kilian. There is a club in Spain that can pay more than us. The main thing for Mbappe was a sports project.” UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin openly supported the Parisians: “UEFA has quite strict financial fair play rules. Who will respect our rules can participate in our competitions. Anyone who doesn’t follow the rules won’t. See Neither Real Madrid nor anyone else will tell UEFA what to do. They are outraged, but as far as I know, their offer was similar to that of PSG. The UEFA-PSG alliance has grown stronger since Al-Khelaifi helped oppose the Super League. As perhaps the only top manager who did not join the rebellion, he replaced Andrea Agnelli as head of the Club Association. It is almost impossible to imagine that Ceferin will now clash with Al-Khelaifi. Perez, Laporta and Agnelli still haven’t given up on the idea of a Superleague and seem to be just waiting for the alliance between Čeferin and Al-Khelaifi to weaken. The President of Barça and the head of Serie A spoke out against the club-states Barcelona boss Joan Laporta spoke out on the side of Real Madrid and La Liga: “ How do I assess the extension of Mbappe’s contract? It distorts the market. Players are kidnapped for money. These are the consequences of the fact that the club supports the state. This is contrary to all the principles of the European Union, it shows how unstable European football is. We must try not to commit illegal acts, though the market is distorted by the club-states, and it’s clear who they are: we have PSG, Manchester City and those that will come.This makes it difficult to manage a club like ours, which is owned by Sosos.”