This is an austerity cure that would make many elected officials turn pale with jealousy. Between 2022 and 2025, at PSG, the payroll devoted to professional players fell by almost 55%. A considerable drop which can be explained by the change in strategy decreed by the president of the club from 2022. In our columns, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi announced the end of “bling-bling”. All eyes were then focused on Neymar but the message was intended to be much deeper.
After the World Cup in Qatar, the club had to clean up its finances to aim for balance in the medium term in order to strictly respect the new UEFA regulations: the payroll should not exceed 90% of revenues in 2023, and fall below 70% in 2025. The objective seemed almost impossible, in a period where inflation affected all salaries.
