Not easy to follow, the salary curve in Ligue 1. Last year, at the same time, French football players announced its inevitable decline, once morest a backdrop of abysmal losses due to the health crisis and the fiasco Mediapro. The first had melted “match day” income and capital gains on transfers, the second the expected annual billion from TV rights, and all of this plunged the finances of French football into the red, more than anywhere else. A UEFA report still underlined at the beginning of February that the French elite clubs were among the hardest hit. Its overall revenues are down 29% since March 2020, compared to around 20% for England, Germany and Spain, and 26% for Italy. The PSG, further underlined the European body, lost 15% of its revenue in the period.
