PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN are expected to choose to sacrifice Kylian Mbappe rather than Neymar if push comes to shove under Uefa Financial Fair Play sanctions.
The Times reports this to be the case if PSG are forced to restrict their wage bill and transfer expenditure before their 2018-19 Champions League campaign.
Both Real Madrid and Manchester City — both very keen on Mbappe last summer when Mbappe left Monaco — are monitoring the situation.
PSG outbid both of them on salary to bring in Mbappe for £157.8m.
The mega move was structured as a year loan, with an obligatory option to buy the 19-year-old in an attempt to circumvent FFP regulations.
The complex deal was forced upon the Qatar-owned club.
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Some of the European game’s most established clubs complained to Uefa about the scale of the club’s world-record £194.6m) release-clause purchase of Neymar from Barcelona the same month.
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After an investigation into PSG’s finances, Uefa has intimated that the club will be sanctioned for breaching FFP regulations for the second time in four years.
Qatar is understood to have funnelled “related party” sponsorship deals into its flagship football club at above fair market value.
This has apparently artificially inflated PSG’s revenues to cover the unprecedented costs of recruiting Neymar and Mbappe.
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