UEFA assume PSG won’t break FFP rules over Neymar despite Barcelona statements

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN will not break the Financial Fair Play regulations even if they spend £196million on Barcelona’s Neymar, a UEFA official has suggested.
PSG want to sign Neymar and have the funds to trigger his release clause
A string of Barcelona officials have confidently assured fans that no club can afford to meet that clause.

They claim any side doing so would inevitably break UEFA’s FFP rules on spending over their limits.

Barca president Josep Bartomeu said last week: ”These clauses are impossible to activate, if you want to comply with the financial fair play. If someone doesn’t want to comply, then, of course, it can be activated.”

But the head of UEFA’s club licensing committee and financial fair play Andrea Traverso has told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport that, to their knowledge, PSG have been following all the required protocol.

“We’re pleased with FFP, we’ve achieved unprecedented results over the past few years. In 2010 football lost €1.7bn, now it’s under €300m,” Traverso said (football-italia).
Goal claim PSG are confident they would make back the outlay spent on Neymar’s purchase through merchandising and hope to balance the books on the player’s branding potential alone.

Barca remain confident the player will not leave them this summer, with reports in the Catalan press last week claiming his father had told club bosses there was no chance the striker was heading to Paris.

Barca were hoping the player would confirm his commitment to the club this week.

Neymar scored in Barca’s 1-0 win over Manchester United last night.

Jose Mourinho was asked about the potential of signing the 25-year-old after the game and flatly denied any interest.




“I don’t know where Neymar will play next season,” the United boss said.

“As a coach of a rival team, I can only say it’s a pleasure to watch him play

“With [Lionel] Messi and Neymar, there is only one.

“So they can only play for one club and not two. We cannot have them. They belong to the clubs.”

Source:www.express.co.uk