La Liga's Tebas slams Man City, PSG: "Different rules, losses" | OneFootball

The president of La Liga, Javier Tebas, harshly criticizes Manchester City and PSG, highlighting the economic-financial differences between Spain, England, and France, and defending the management model of Spanish clubs.

La Liga, Tebas attacks Manchester City and PSG: "Different rules, continuous losses"

The day after the PSG's victory over Barcelona at the 90th minute, Tebas did not spare European clubs with less restrictive rules than La Liga:

"Football is global and in European competitions, you have to face clubs that have a different system. Either they have no economic control, or it's different from ours. In England, they are already worried about the level of debt in English football. You can be in loss for a maximum of three years, but not for ten like Manchester City, which has been losing money and cheating since it existed with the new owners. Or like PSG, which had losses of 200 million euros for seven consecutive years."

Despite the difficulties, Tebas highlighted the competitiveness of La Liga:

"Compared to the Premier League, we have 30 more European titles in this century."

The economic-financial model of La Liga

According to Tebas, Spanish rules have allowed for a gradual but steady recovery of the clubs' accounts:

The legislation includes more than 200 articles that regulate income, expenses, and debts of the clubs.

The main sources of income are television rights, matchday, commercial and other activities.

No club has been liquidated, unlike other European realities with large debts.

"Owing 700 million euros to the Tax Agency was a bit shameful, wasn't it?" added Tebas, emphasizing the effectiveness of the controls.

Financial Fair Play and centralization of TV rights

With the start of the centralized sale of television rights, La Liga has introduced a transitory Financial Fair Play, which has allowed to:

Collect 500 million more in one year,

Start debt restructuring,

Ensure that resources did not end up in salaries and luxury, but were used to support the financial stability of the clubs.

"If there had not been Fair Play, those 500 million would have gone to the players, to Ferraris, Porsches, yachts and not to the amortization of public debt."

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