why PSG have such a hard time selling

At each transfer window, it’s the same ritornello in Paris. Obviously, it is important to strengthen the workforce and seize market opportunities when they arise. But the capital club must also sell. Certainly, the PSG has strong backs, with a wealthy owner and an ever more powerful brand. Especially since UEFA has put the “fair-play financier“In parentheses last summer to give clubs slack during Covid times. All with the idea of ​​redesigning this control tool, with perhaps the implementation of a “salary cap“. In the meantime, Paris can not do just anything, and at every window, we can hear that the vice-champion of Europe 2020 must sell for 100, 200 M €.

However, this is not as simple as it seems. Especially since PSG refuses to sell its best elements, even when they want to leave, like Marco Verratti in 2017, Neymar in 2019 and Kylian Mbappé, last summer. A matter of pride: for its decision-makers …