Qatar helped out PSG well this summer. In recent weeks, PSG sold Marco Verratti to Al-Arabi for 50 million euros, while the same club had already recruited Abdou Diallo for 15 million euros earlier this summer. And it’s not over, since in the coming hours, Al-Ahli (not to be confused with the Saudi club) will formalize the signing of Julian Draxler.
The sale of the German international should bring 20 million euros to the reigning French champion. In total, PSG will have recovered 85 million euros thanks to clubs in the Qatari championship, and obviously, that raises some questions. Although, in an article published by The Parisian last week PSG defended itself from any conflict of interest and explained that QSI was not the owner of Al-Arabi, that goes badly in Europe. Especially when we know that it is Antero Henrique, former Parisian leader and close to NAKwho is behind these transfers.
Did Qatar cheat?
This weekend, the Spanish media Sport publishes a rather incriminating article. “PSG, a new accounting cheat? »asks the media. “Historically, state-owned clubs have used sponsorship deals to grow their revenues at off-market prices. (…) What we did not see coming is that these clubs are now using transfers to adapt to financial fair play. Several clubs from Qatar, the emirate which controls the Parisian club, paid 35 million euros for undesirables and 45 million euros for Marco Verratti.we can read.
“Otherwise, we can also do like France, which does not control PSG while they sell Marco Verratti to Qatar for more than 40 million euros, or I don’t know how much. We can do that too, find a satellite country that buys players from us to make big profits and then buy all the players we want. Is this the system we want? I do not believe “, for example, launched Javier Tebas, president of La Liga, earlier this weekend. The message got through.
