Jean-Claude Blanc responds to accusations of Football Leaks against PSG

According to documents obtained by Der Spiegel, Mediapart and other media via Football Leaks, PSG and Manchester City have broken the rules that prevent clubs from spending excessively. UEFA has investigated nine clubs that it believes violate FFP regulations, including PSG and Man City, following the introduction of the decision for the 2013-14 season.

Following the investigation, UEFA has authorized PSG and Man City to participate in a European competition. The Football Leaks documents suggest that Infantino used its power as UEFA's general secretary in 2014 to pressure the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), which should have proposed sanctions for breaking the rules. .

The managing director of the Paris club, Jean-Claude Blanc, responded to these accusations at the microphone of RMC Sport.

"UEFA have forced PSG to a very fast pace in the last seven years, we had to make the Champions League with a limited number of players for a few years, and we were limited in our salary level for a few years. And finally, we were back in a process all normal after this period controlled.And UEFA decided, in one fell swoop, after the Paris Saint-Germain made two big operations on the transfer window (Neymar and Mbappé), to change the rules again. (…) It's a little surprising that this is done just after these two big transfers "he badured.

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UEFA rules do not allow investment – it's the only sector in Europe where a shareholder is not free to invest as much as he wants to catch up with a small, well-established group who shares the titles and the final stages of the Champions League for the last fifteen years, being a new entrant, obviously, you are not welcome.I think the rules of financial fair play have been small to small detours to prevent new entrants from coming to disrupt a well organized cartel of clubs. "

"The PSG defends its institution by saying that we are free to invest.We are respectful of the institution of financial fair play.We try to get into these rules, even if it slows us down, prevents us from being efficient and In spite of these rules, we manage to integrate two great players among the best in the world and who pull up all the French football.If it bothers that it is necessary that these rules, which had been defined, are modified again to constrain us … So maybe we have to stop being a good student "he said again.