It is a long poker game that ends between the direction of PSG and UEFA. After several months of investigation punctuated hearings and audits, the instance of the Club Financial Control ( ICFC ), chaired by the Belgian Jean- Luc Dehaene , meets Thursday, May 1 in Nyon (Switzerland) . She will endorse sanctions for clubs in breach of the rules of financial fair play .
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Time communication will occur in the following days. One thing is certain , PSG will indeed part of the list of bad students.
A priori, however, the Parisian club has an ideal profile . He respects indeed the fundamental principle of the system , since manages to balance its revenues and expenditures. The income PSG the 2012-2013 season and showed an almost symbolic deficit of € 3.5 million . Problem: the means used by the PSG to achieve this balance are not mandated by the taste of UEFA experts. In their line of sight, the image contract between PSG and the Qatar Tourism Authority ( QTA ), the Office of Qatari tourism. Signed in 2012 , this partnership vaguely defined reported last approximately € 200 million , half of the revenue of the capital club season. Concluded between the parties related to the same ultimate shareholder , the State of Qatar, is believed to have been overstated and out of the market price.
Tens of millions of euros
It remains to know the severity and the more or less restrictive sanction awaits PSG. If the threat of exclusion from the next Champions League is already discounted, the Parisian club will he unable to align its potential recruits on European land ? He will be severely restricted its payroll ? These sanctions were actually considered (see our editions of April 22) by the supervisory clubs . However, PSG as for other European clubs concerned , the definitive sanctions are not imposed vertically. They are the result of negotiations. This is the strength and the weakness of the system of financial fair play .
According to our information , the Parisian club has just sealed with the supervisory principle to a fine of tens of millions of euros. This type of sanction , the third in ascending order of sanctions under the rules of fair play, would be a lesser evil for PSG . It would however be accompanied by financial objectives to be met within a year. Much time gained for the Parisians .
