LaLiga chief has another go at City as they beat Real to Haaland

LALIGA president Javier Tebas has launched another attack on City and confirmed he has made a formal complaint to UEFA against the Blues.

Tebas is a long-standing critic of City and their financial model, despite the club being cleared at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2020 after UEFA charged them with breaching Financial Fair Play regulations.

Now, he has confirmed he sent a formal complaint to UEFA against City and Paris Saint-Germain, and also questioned the Blues’ signing of Erling Haaland for £51million from Borussia Dortmund.

City, who paid the player’s release clause with Borussia Dortmund, beat off competition from Real Madrid, among others, for the Norwegian.

Speaking to Marca, Tebas said: “[City] must have done something, because Haaland asked the clubs for more apart from the 60m that have been paid.

“PSG is going to end up with losses of 200m, it has already been dragging 300m... and they go and renew (Kylian) Mbappe with those amounts. They are going to have to cheat, I don’t know if paying outside the French environment or fattening up the sponsorships a lot, which they already do.”

In his official complaint against PSG this week, LaLiga confirmed they had raised a similar issue with UEFA in April against City, and didn’t rule out adding to both formal complaints.

“LaLiga this week filed a complaint with UEFA against PSG, which will join another against Manchester City in April, for understanding that these clubs are continuously breaching the current financial fair play regulations,” the complaint reads.

“LaLiga considers that these practices alter the ecosystem and the sustainability of football, harm all European clubs and leagues, and only serve to artificially inflate the market, with money not generated in football itself.

“LaLiga understands that the irregular financing of these clubs is carried out, either through direct injections of money or through sponsorship and other contracts that do not correspond to market conditions or make economic sense.

“It is not the first time that LaLiga has denounced these anti-competitive practices before UEFA. The Spanish organization has always led the defense of economic control.”

City have always staunchly defended themselves against Tebas’ complaints, and won their appeal against the two-year ban imposed on them by FIFA over alleged FFP breaches.