The signing of Messi by PSG will go through the courts of the EU

The Court of Justice of the EU, with headquarters in Luxembourg, will celebrate a public audience the next 18 October in which it will examine the demand against the signing of Leo Messi by the PSG, presented in August of 2021 by a group of partners of the FC Barcelona. The fans, rooted in France, showed his disagreement by the traspaso like free agent of the Argentinian footballer.

As it informed 'EFE', several sources of the judicial team of the demandantes confirmed that the judges will examine if there was an incumplimiento of the "fair-play financial" with the signing of Messi and a "distortion" of the competition between the Spanish League and the French. Also they will value if there were illegal helps by part of the French State to the PSG in the frame of his cooperation with Qatar. In accordance with the letrados of the group of partners of the Barça, the judge relator designated by the Court is the veteran Marc Jaeger, ex-president of the Court of the EU (2007-2019)

"The partners of the FC Barcelona congratulate of the decision of the Court to organise a public audience and expect a firm decision that defend the interests of the fans and put end to the instrumentalización systematic of the professional football", indicates the lawyer Juan Branco, main representative of the demandantes, that still do not know the date of the divulging of the sentence, although it estimates that it produce during 2023.

It remains little

Messi left to the instrument Frenchman from the Barça after not being able to renew his agreement in the summer of 2021 after not being able to fulfil with the rules of LaLiga regarding financial subjects. The footballer, formed in The Masia, had to go out free and decided to sign by two seasons with the PSG, what will allow him remain free in the summer of 2023, when it already will have 36 years.