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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Colin Millar

Lionel Messi transfer decision goes from bad to worse as PSG post record £192m losses

Paris Saint-Germain have posted record losses of £192.4million (€224.3m) for the 2020-21 campaign – prior to completing the high-profile summer transfer of Lionel Messi from Barcelona.

The club’s latest financial figures for the campaign played behind closed doors showed that they lost out on £31million from their normal ticket revenue while at the same time salary expenses rose by a whopping 21 percent to £431million.

Remarkably, the club’s wage bill for this season exceeded the combined total of 14 of their 19 rivals in Ligue 1.

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