After having recruited a lot this summer, PSG also took care to get rid of many undesirables. Questionably seen from Spain.
It is in Qatar that the club owned by the Qatari sovereign fund QSI found the ideal exit door. After transferring Marco Verratti and Abdou Diallo to Al-Arabi, Paris reached an agreement with Al-Ahli to sell their German attacking midfielder Julien Draxler. The latter officially signed a two-year contract this Sunday, for compensation estimated at 20 million euros – a real bargain given the person concerned’s service record since his arrival in the capital and through his loan to Benfica Lisbon last season.
Fatally, by amassing at least 80 million euros for three elements on which it no longer counted, PSG attracted derogatory comments from its biggest detractor: the Spanish elite. “ PSG, a new accounting cheat? “, headlines the Catalan daily Sport this Sunday, before continuing: ” Historically, state-owned clubs have used sponsorship deals to grow their revenues at off-market prices. (…) What we didn’t 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. »
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A few days earlier, the boss of La Liga, Javier Tebas, who has made criticism of PSG his hobby horse, said nothing else: “ 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… »
