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PSG win legal battle with UEFA over FFP investigation

Thursday, 21 March 2019


PARIS, Mar 20 (Reuters): Paris St Germain have won a legal battle against UEFA after European football's governing body tried to reopen its investigation into the French club's spending on transfer fees and wages.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Tuesday it had upheld PSG's appeal against UEFA on the grounds that the body took too long to review its own decision to clear the French champions of breaking Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.
The judgement is separate to an ongoing investigation by UEFA regarding PSG's 2017-18 finances - the season in which the club signed Neymar in a world record 222 million euros ($252 million) deal from Barcelona and Kylian Mbappe from AS Monaco.
In June last year, the Investigatory Chamber of UEFA's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) cleared PSG of breaking UEFA's break-even rules, yet later that month, the CFCB chairman ordered the Adjudicatory Chamber to review the decision.