Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Leo Messi and Leonardo during the Argentine's presentation at PSG

THE OPERATION REACHES THE EUROPEAN COURT

Another problem for PSG: The signing of Leo Messi, on trial

Published:16/10/2022 - 11:58h

Updated:16/10/2022 - 11:58h

The European Court will assess whether or not Leo Messi's signing for Paris Saint-Germain violated UEFA's financial 'fair play' in 2021. The trial was requested by a group of fans of FC Barcelona's Peña de Lyon

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The big room of the European Court in Luxembourg will argue the Tuesday from the 9:30 hours if the signing of Leo Messi by Paris Saint-Germain broke the 'fair play' financial of the UEFA in the summer of 2021. Although the operation produced 'to cost zero', the high wage of the 'crack' Argentinian during his two years of agreement (40 million euros this season) would suppose a rape to the rule established on income and limits salariales.

The trial against the PSG opens after the complaint formulated by a group of fans of the FC Barcelona of the Crag of Lyon. Represented by the lawyer Juan Branco, the peñistas consider like "a triumph" this first step to try show the irregularities that marked the operation by means of which Messi abandoned the Barça after finalising his agreement to the term of the season 2020-21.

The complaint of the fanatical culés also was presented in front of the administrative Court of Paris in phase of instruction. Later, the case was reported in front of the Court of the European Union in Luxembourg and assigned to the judge instructor Marc Jaeger, ex president of the Court the one who carries 10 years working there, as it explains 'Sportive World'.

In this sense, the Catalan newspaper conversed with the lawyer Branco, the one who considers that the case could mark a precedent like the one of Jean-Marc Bosman, Belgian footballer the one who in 1995 attained that it approved the free circulation of footballers of the European Union through the designated 'Law Bosman'. Finally, this sharpened the inequality between the clubs and the problems to nourish of the quarry because of the numerous arrival of international players in the different leagues of the world.

Another headache for Paris

Although in the offices of the PSG take for granted that the case in front of the European Court will not happen to greater, the true is that the líos accumulate him to Paris. The presumptive irregularities on the signing of Messi join to the 'case Mbappé', whose future could change radically after the World-wide if it confirms the wish of the forward to leave of the club and terminate his agreement signed does grieve three months.

On the other hand, Nasser To the-Khelaïfi follows confronting critical by the complaint formulated in his against in Catar by presumptive extortion and imprisonment. Like this the things, to Paris seem to accumulate him the bad news to a month of the beginning of the Glass of the World. Leo Messi has the option to renew by a year more and complete the agreement by three seasons in return of 110 million euros that offered him To the-Khelaïfi after his exit of the Barça

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