Financial fair play in football: Spanish league files complaint against Paris and City

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Cause a stir in Spain: whereabouts of Kylian Mbappé (left) in Paris

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The Spanish league association La Liga has filed complaints with the European Football Union (Uefa) against the financial machinations of Paris St. Germain and Manchester City.

This was confirmed by La Liga on Wednesday.

The two top European clubs from France and England "continuously violated the applicable regulations of financial fair play".

The legal action against the two state-supported clubs will be further intensified, the statement said.

La Liga has commissioned law firms in France and Switzerland "with the aim of carrying out administrative and judicial proceedings before the competent French authorities and the European Union as quickly as possible".

The complaint against City had already been filed in April, that against PSG "this week".

"Each league should take care of its own situation"

Uefa President Čeferin

La Liga believes that the two clubs' business practices are "changing the ecosystem and sustainability of football, harming all European clubs and leagues and only serving to artificially inflate the market, with no money generated in football itself".

The fact that superstar Kylian Mbappé extended his contract in Paris instead of moving to Spain recently caused trouble in the Spanish League Association.

Uefa President Aleksander Čeferin recently rejected criticism of the Mbappé deal in an interview with the AFP news agency.

“I absolutely disagree.

There are too many insults in football anyway and I think every league should take care of its own situation," said Čeferin.

It is "not right that one league criticizes the other league".

The Spanish league now says it is not the first time “that La Liga has denounced these anti-competitive practices in front of Uefa”.

In 2017 and 2018, she submitted briefs to Uefa against PSG and Manchester City for violating financial fair play, "which led to Uefa sanctions against both 'state clubs'".

These were later withdrawn "due to strange decisions by the Cas".

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