Draxler in Al Ahli - great way to avoid the Financial Fair Play rules

Financial Fair Play, does it exists? Because it seems that for some clubs, FFP is just an empty word. Off course, we are talking about PSG. The French champion found all possible legal ‚holes’ in order to clear the financial books, and after the departures of Marco Verratti for 45,000,000 and Abdou Diallo for 15,000,000 euros, the Saints sold the German offensive midfielder Julian Draxler to Qatar, a country of their owners. The German was hesitant, he didn't feel like going to Doha, but in the end, under the influence of a lucrative offer, he relented and decided to sign for Al Ahli. The funny part – he was paid 20.000 euros!

Now, we are talking about a player who stagnated during his stay in Paris, played on loan in some clubs but was never brought back, and in the end, he only has one year left in paris, but Al Ahli still managed to give PSG 20 millions for him, while his current market value is only 5 million. It is yet unknown how much will he earn in the Middle East but the French media are writing that it certainly not be less than the 7,100,000 euros he had annually in the City of Light.

Do you really think we are all idiots?

PSG found a way to justify the huge amount of money spent on reinforcements in previous years, by playing it in a legal way, from the legal side. The sale of football players to clubs from the country of President Nasser Al Khelaiffi is the easiest way to avoid violating FFP, at least on paper. That's how the club earned 80,000,000 euros this summer, and they will get 20,000,000 for Draxler. The purely football aspects of this transfer are almost negligible when all this is taken into account, but it is not out of place to mention them. Draxler's new club finished last season in eighth position in the Qatari championship, and started the new one in a desperate manner, losing all three games.