It is “not correct” for the Spanish Liga to criticize PSG after the extension of Kylian Mbappé’s Parisian contract, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin lamented on Friday in an interview with AFP, regretting the “insults” uttered .
The fact that Kylian Mbappé extended Saturday at PSG until 2025 by rejecting the offer from Real Madrid, sparked the start of a Franco-Spanish controversy: La Liga boss Javier Tebas called the tempting Parisian offer an “insult football” before being robbed on Thursday by his French counterpart Vincent Labrune, who spoke of “slander”.
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“I absolutely disagree” with Javier Tebas, Aleksander Ceferin told AFP on Friday. “There are too many insults in football anyway, and I think every League should mind its own business. For me, it is not correct that one League criticizes another.
Incidentally, the Slovenian leader said he did not follow the arguments of Javier Tebas, according to whom Mbappé would have extended “thanks to large sums of money” despite the heavy losses recorded by PSG in recent seasons. “From what I know, Real’s offer for Mbappé was similar to that of PSG,” he said, without wanting to comment on the financially “sustainable” nature of the operation.
“We have clear rules. Anyone who follows these rules can play our competitions, not the others,” he said, defending the emergence of new strongholds in European football, such as PSG and its Qatari shareholder, or Manchester City and its Emirati owner. “The important thing is that you cannot spend more than 70% of your income on salaries. This should allow clubs to be viable,” he concluded.
