FOOTBALL; La Liga president, Javier Tebas, has threatened legal action if UEFA
failed to properly investigate what he feels are clear breaches of the
organisation’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules by Paris Saint-Germain.
The grounds of Tebas’ complaint are not made clear in an interview with Mundo Deportivo.
But he insists PSG’s desire to pay Neymar’s €222million buyout clause is not his only issue.
“We will [make a complaint about PSG] because they infringe UEFA’s
Financial Fair Play rules and also the European Union’s competition
rules,” Tebas said.
“We will make a complaint to UEFA and if they don’t do anything we
will take it to the competition tribunals in Switzerland and Brussels.
And, from there, we don’t rule out going through the courts in France
and Spain.
“It’s not [just to do with Neymar]. We planned [to make the
complaint] earlier. If we’ve not done it sooner it’s because we planned
to take the problem to UEFA’s people first and I said that to president
[Aleksander] Ceferin, but there hasn’t been time.
“What worries me is La Liga can’t just sit around with its arms
crossed. It’s not about Barca, it’s about Spanish football. Today it is
Barca but tomorrow it could be Real [Madrid], Atletico or another team.”