PSG foresees losses of 204 million

The pandemic of coronavirus and the economic crisis that it has generated have fully affected the big clubs in Europe, including those that belong to club-states such as the PSG.

According to a newspaper information L’Equipe, the Parisian entity presented a report to the DNCG (National Directorate of Management Control) of the French Professional Football League with a forecast of losses of up to 204 million euros for the 2020-21 season, 60% more than last year. The club that presides Nasser-Al-Khelaïfi it will be forced to reduce expenses and this would also entail the sale of some of its players.

Immersed in negotiations to try to retain Kylian Mbappé and Neymar, who end their contract in June 2022, this forecast of losses of 204 million for this course could affect his planning for the next season, in which he plans to enter the fight to get the services of Leo Messi, which ends his contract with him Barça this next June 30. “The great players like Messi will always be on the list of PSG. But for now is not the time to talk or dream about this. We are sitting at the table of all those who follow this matter closely. Well, we're not actually sitting down, but our chair is reserved in case … Four months in football is an eternity, especially at this time, ”said the sports director of the PSG, Leonardo, in France Football just a few days ago.

What is clear is that with 204 million loss of any operation to renew or sign a crack is a little more complicated. And that is the difficult management that the PSG in the next few months.

Other big clubs, with similar forecasts

To date, and waiting for the budget of the Barça For the current season, the Barça club closed the 2019-20 academic year with losses of 97 million euros and announced a reduction of the budget for the 2020-21 campaign of 231 million, although now it expects 300 less income. Regarding the Real
Madrid, the club that presides Florentine
Perez announced 313,000 euros of benefits from the previous year after the salary and personnel cut but foresees 300 million less income. He BayernInstead, thanks to a more controlled wage bill and the achievement of Champions, managed to close the last year with a profit of 9.8 million. However, his forecasts for the current season are losses of 150 million. In fact, its CEO, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, recently admitted that “at Bayern each game without an audience costs him 4 million ”.

The Juventus of Turin, for its part, ended last season with losses of 89.7 million, without making public its forecast for this campaign. Less losses added the Manchester
United, which set them at 25.4 million, without detailing the loss forecast for this 2020-21 season. Liverpool and Manchester
City they have not yet released their numbers.