PSG accounts raise suspicions

PSG’s accounts and their possible irregularities in compliance with the Financial Fair Play are under the magnifying glass of UEFA. As published The Team, its European financial control body (ICFC) sent a “request for information” to the Parisian club a few weeks ago after analyzing the data provided according to the usual procedure. They must have found something out of the ordinary to ask for more data to complement those provided in the first instance.

According to The Teamthis attitude of UEFA could mean that “There is evidence of the concern of independent financial experts working for UEFA.” It must be remembered that PSG lost 224.3 million euros at the end of the 2021 season. After the in-depth examination of the new report requested by the ICFC, UEFA will initiate a procedure against the Parisian club if it considers it necessary.

all this comes on the day that LaLiga denounced PSG, in addition to City, for breach of Financial Fair Play. The institution that presides over Tebas brought this case before UEFA and before the justice of the European Union and France. “These practices alter the ecosystem and the sustainability of football, they harm all European clubs and leagues, and they only serve to artificially inflate the market, with money not generated in football itself,” Tebas said in this regard.

PSG were already under threat of sanction in 2014 and had to accept a series of measures to stop the UEFA sanction. In June 2018, the ICCF investigation chamber closed a file for alleged irregularities in sponsorships. Although the case continued, In the end, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) considered the matter settled considering that the deadlines had been exceeded.s.