“We want to express in the strongest terms our disagreement, as well as our incomprehension at your recent attacks against Ligue 1 and one of our clubs”, Paris SG, writes the boss of the LFP in a document in English that RMC, the Team and the AFP have obtained. “Your disrespectful slander now seems directed at Kylian Mbappé, who is widely recognized as one of the best players in the world and who simply decided not to join your league, by choice, despite a similar offer. » from Real, continues Vincent Labrune.
Labrune demands respect from Tebas
Javier Tebas, engaged for several years in a campaign against what he calls “club-states”, had virulently criticized on Saturday the fact that Mbappé extended “thanks to large sums of money” when, according to him, the PSG would have registered “losses of 700 million euros in recent seasons”. “I do not have to remind you that the financial equilibrium rules of which you repeatedly complain are the same rules that you helped to create and approve” as a member of the Executive Committee of UEFA, the governing body of European football, argues Vincent Labrune.
“The fact that you take this position publicly and repeatedly, denigrating our league and our clubs, is both unacceptable and patently false.”
Vincent Labrune to Javier Tebas.
The boss of the LFP also recalls that the Spanish clubs, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in the lead, have outrageously dominated European football over the past decade, while regularly breaking investment records on the transfer market. “The fact that you take this position publicly and repeatedly […]by denigrating our league and our clubs, is both unacceptable and patently false.”asserts Vincent Labrune, who asks Javier Tebas to treat players playing in France “with a little respect”.
