We’ll see!
They will probably have too and PSG are stuck with that!
Normal business will soon resume:
PSG Vrs Cheaty in Qtr Finals of CL…
We go on to pick the winners off in the Semi…
All Good 
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Yeah for a club desperately chasing that CL title, that’s a pretty amazing transfer window. Never a guarantee it works obviously, and there are still a couple of teams I’d rank higher before a ball has been kicked. But they should have improved their chances.
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We’ve seen a lot with those oil money clubs but this was shocking once again.
Messi not being able to continue at Barca came out of nowhere and I thought that with his wage demands it will take them a few months to find a new club. Took them two days. 
Read a few times that Paris have to reduce their wage bill during the last few years and suddenly they are able to make Messi their Top earner (he had to be, right?).
I don’t know where the ‘have to’ reduce their wage bill comes from. Yes they did eventually get a 5 to 20% reduction in players wages during the lockdown (which wasn’t reported at the time (the reports were that the negociations were at a halt which evidently wasn’t the case later)). This was all to do with covid and lost match day revenu. Their was noone forcing them (though one could consider that the club was trying to force the players to take a reduction).
He generated more income for Barcelona than he was earning in wages. Barcelona have come up against very steadfast and specific laying down of the law by La Liga. Ligue un is a different animal.
It really isn’t. The DNCG ‘investigate’ each club every year. Any complaint from another club (even if just rumors) gets investigated minisciously. I haven’t specifics about PSG for example but Toulon (rugby) got investigated 3 times one season before X-Mas, Documents and computers being taken, it’s no joke.
I don’t know why in anglo-saxon press France is labelled as not taking finances in sport seriously as it’s completely false and bogus. PSG are less likely to be let off the hook for example than Man City.
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What specific FFP/Cost control measures does Ligue Un have, separate to UEFA’s FFP?
I couldn’t tell you however the evidence of how clubs behave indicate that they take all thios seriously.
L’OM is the major example who in fear of breaking the rules released a whole host of players on frees. Of course in lower divisions we see this every year in fact most players are only contracted for a year that goes in English football as well). That a club the size of L’OM felt forced to act in such a manner amazes me).
In any case my point is the DNCG’s investigations are at minimum decent if not exhaustive.
French football has a much older rule but one that is focused on preventing insolvency rather than minimizing financial losses. Essentially as long as the shareholders cover the losses from the previous year everything is fine.
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Thanks Limie, that sounds about right. As example from last season Bordeaux Girondins.
Edit: there’s also a lot of stuff about finacial dealings that I don’t know anything about and am not even going tobother looking into.
Can you imagine the egos in that dressing room between the front 3 alone.
Messi and Neymar are still very close. As for Mbappe, there has been a fair amount of coverage of his ego since the summer, but notably its only coming from people who have never had any professional relationship with him.
Yeah I thought about it when read about the ego factor, that the two of them have played together and were really good along with Suarez. However, didn’t Neymar leave Barca to come out of Messi’s shadow? I thought that was one of the narrative back then.
Where is Di Maria going to play, on top of Messi’s enormous ego? 
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Yeah it definitely was part of the narrative. There was a lot more going on at Barca at the time that made it make sense for him to look to get out (brewing legal action surrounding his purchase), but I am sure the idea he’d have his own team he could stamp his mark on in a way he never would be allowed to at Barca was a real motivation. I don’t see that as a destabilizing sort of ego though, especially when balanced against how well they played on the pitch together right up until he left, at Messi appeared to blame Barca for the move more than he did Neymar.
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See that’s what I’m talking about. And it only took them two days after announced Messi was leaving to ‘agree’ most parts of the contract with his father/agent.
Amazing how many people on here seem to know Messi and 1/2 the PSG squad personally enough to know they all have massive egos.
Personally can’t wait to see Messi, Neymar and Mbappe up front together.
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Not sure who that is aimed at, but speaking about their forward line alone there is plenty of evidence on that front - from when Messi and Neymar where both at Barca, and for Mbappe for France when he made those comments about his team mates in front of the media recently and Icardi back when he played in Italy,