FFP imposes rules on sponsorship which are designed to stop owners investing by sponsoring their clubs. They do not stop any other company sponsoring a club whatever their reasons. It is believed that at least one of United's sponsors contributed towards the fee for Pogba ((Nike?) . Such a deal was not possible for PSG but the €200+ million of their owners is real enough. So their owners found a way round UEFA's rules. All of which shows that if UEFA wish "to take the piss" with their rules they can't expect everyone to lie down and take it. It was certainly stated last night that he had joined on a free, and it was stated that the cash paid to Neymar was to employ him as a World Cup ambassador. This has not, as far as I know, been denied. There are precedents, notably in the 19th century when Preston signed a number of Scottish players for whom jobs were found in cotton mills. They were paid very handsomely for this work - rather more handsomely than the other mill workers, apparently - though none of them ever set foot in a mill, it seems. There was, of course, no violation of the maximum wage!
