MANCHESTER, England (AP) – The Spanish soccer league wants UEFA to investigate Manchester City’s spending and expand its newly-launched probe into whether Paris Saint-Germain has breached Financial Fair Play rules.
Spanish league president Javier Tebas said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday that Abu Dhabi-funded City and Qatari-owned PSG are benefiting from state aid which distorts European competitions and “is irreparably harming the football industry.”
Tebas wrote separate letters to European soccer’s governing body on Aug. 22 requesting investigations into Man City and PSG.
UEFA said Friday it would look into whether PSG was flouting rules designed to control excessive spending by top European clubs. Tebas wants UEFA to go further and look into “PSG’s history of noncompliance.”
Both City and PSG spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the transfer window that closed last week, and the Spanish league claims the teams “benefit from sponsorships that make no economic sense and lack any fair value” to help them comply with FFP.