Ligue 1 clubs lost 273 million euros last season, 582 million euros the previous year. payrolls in France are higher than in Italy, Germany and even England.
France has only reached one final in the last five years (PSG in the Champions League final in 2020), like the Netherlands and Scotland, whose clubs have payrolls three to four times less important. “Money is not the solution to everything’, says Jean-Marc Mickeler, president of the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG)