PSG seal 150 Million a year sponsorship!

[adrianr]

Just to contrast this bitter, jealous league to Ligue 1:

Lyon chief: PSG investment good for French football

Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has praised the massive investment of Paris Saint-Germain's Qatari owners, hailing them 'the saviours of French football'.

Since taking charge at the Parc des Princes in summer 2011, Qatar Sports Investments has pumped some €250 million into the PSG squad with stars like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva ensuring full houses wherever Carlo Ancelotti's men play.

Additionally, the money paid for the rights to show Ligue 1 up to 2016 by BeIn Sport, the TV channel set up in France by Qatari-backed Al-Jazeera, has helped give clubs in the top flight a solid financial platform, according to Aulas.

"Thanks to their investment, the Qataris have saved French football. Not necessarily clubs like Lyon and Marseille, well-structured clubs with solid shareholders. But they have saved middling clubs like Saint-Etienne, who - without them - would have been in trouble," Aulas, 63, told Le Parisien. "Their arrival is a windfall, and not to recognise that would be stupid."

It is not the first time in recent weeks Aulas has given his thoughts on his own club's title rivals. After having told the Qatari owners he "would not change anything" when coach Carlo Ancelotti's post looked in jeopardy, Aulas became embroiled in a war of words with PSG sporting director Leonardo following a clash between Zlatan Ibrahimovic and OL defender Dejan Lovren.

Though Aulas remains overwhelmingly positive about the meteoric progress made by the club from the capital, PSG's decision to recruit exclusively from Serie A last summer is something which the OL supremo would like to see change.

"The only [criticism] that could be made is that they don't buy players on the French market as we did when we were more economically powerful," Aulas said. "I think PSG's success is a good thing, which is going to bring points for France in the UEFA rankings. The real policy to follow is to push PLM [Paris, Lyon and Marseille, the current top three] to make the league attractive."

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Compare this to the PL where the other owners conspire to cut off investment and badmouth spending by Arabs and Russians.

Fucking hell. You know the worlds gone mad when we're looking to the French for sense.

And where's our thanks for helping negotiate the biggest league TV deal on the planet?

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

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The PSG came into force at the League headquarters, Tuesday morning, to defend himself and his interests before the National Commission for the Control and Management . Nasser Al-Khelaifi , Jean-Claude Blanc , Philippe Boindrieux and responsible financial PSG represented the club in the capital.
As the foresaw the mega-contract between the PSG to the State of Qatar has been at the center of discussions and now we know a little more. Firstly, this contract is already in place, is a contract which images to promote Qatar. The argument of the leaders in Paris, PSG is in fact a vector image and marketing for Qatar. To support this argument, they rely in particular on the huge media coverage of the PSG.
The amount of this contract is $ 150 million / year , matching bonus based on different criteria. The DNCG has taken into account the contract for the current season, and expects a deficit at the end of the season between 150 and 200 million euros.
Nasser less relaxed than usual
This contract XXL has already been forwarded to the UEFA who is studying it from every angle . And already, some aspects of the contract satisfy the European body could not take into account that part of the amount in the context of its financial fair play. No negotiation has yet taken place between PSG and UEFA. This could occur in the coming months.
The "naming" of the park is considered an option , but is currently in "stand-by" to the transformation of the Parc des Princes for the Euro 2016 or when moving elsewhere . The question of the future of GSP stadium will be also one of the major projects of 2013 leaders in Paris. According to a witness, Nasser seemed less relaxed than in recent visits to the DNCG.

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The definition of financial fair play that wants to establish the UEFA ? European clubs that do not spend more money than they generate in order to prevent abuses, and for some of them, record deficits. In other words, if the PSG , absolute record transfers the past two seasons, signed the huge sponsorship contract that currently negotiate its leaders (€ 100m per year over four seasons), it satisfies the conditions of the financial fair play and could continue to be as active on the market.
Except that the side of the UEFA, where PSG is under surveillance. By the end of the year, the Board of Control of clubs associated with expert consultants to the European body will look at the capital club. According to our information, the UEFA has a copy of all contracts sponsoring all clubs involved in competitions. The body had no official contact with PSG over this huge sponsorship contract. It is simply the current discussions between the Parisian club and Qatari institution, which is not necessarily a bank. This does not prevent an internal source of UEFA, near the supervisory board, to say that the PSG "does not have the financial fair play" that will enter into force definitively from 2016.
PSG annoys other European clubs
If UEFA can not challenge the commercial value of a contract signed by a football club, it may well be, however, does not take into account the totality of the contract in its financial fair play. Specifically, on € 100m per year that PSG would receive with the famous contract, the European body could be argued, for example, only € 70 million are justified under certain criteria (size of the club, stadium, internationally renowned budget , revenue marketing, merchandising ...). The remaining € 30 million, "not validated by UEFA," the coup would not be considered as income from PSG.
A possible scenario widely, especially as UEFA poised to validate the contract between Manchester United at General Motors (€ 80m per year over seven years, the largest contract ever in Europe), asks how PSG would be more than MU. The Parisian club would have to find other sources of revenue to fill the shortfall. Always under the watchful eye of the competition. According to the same source, several top European clubs, including the Bayern Munich , would pressure the European body that she is very attentive to the actions of PSG. Evidence that, decidedly, PSG annoys a lot of people on the Old Continent.

 

[hertsblue]

Just spend another 40 million also on Lucas Moura

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I assume everyone at UEFA is back at their desks now, so we should expect a statement on this anytime soon.....

 

[bluesoup]

I'm still waiting for the usual suspects to be raging about PSG and FFP. Not a squirrels peep so far or have I missed something ?

 

[deano ou812]

Just spend another 40 million also on Lucas Moura

Be interesting to hear what the pundits/ex pros/commentators say when the champions league restarts regarding psg,you can bet the money will be mentioned briefly in passing,but if it was us well it would be two/three hours coverage on the in and outs of our spending.... As for psg well done and good luck they dont seem to give to fcuks about ffp,and to be perfectly honest neither should we,fcuk platini and his cohorts....

 

[mancunial]

Little England is alive and well