News about Nasser Al-Khelaifi

Jamie Carragher has slammed the new FIFA Club World Cup, which is set to further extend the footballing calendar when it debuts next summer. The tournament, which will include teams such as Chelsea , Real Madrid and Manchester City , will run for the first time from June 15 to July 13 in 2025 and will be marketed as the best of the best slugging it out across the United States. According to Paris Saint-Germain chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is also chairman of the European Club Association, the new-and-expanded version of the tournament will become one of the biggest competitions on the planet.

The club were told to fork out €55m (£46m) - a figure including missing bonuses as well as wages from the forward's seven-year spell in Paris - by the LFP, French professional football's governing body, but have confirmed they will not follow the ruling. Mbappe is thought to have contacted UEFA last month over the salary dispute. He was initially meant to receive a hefty signing bonus in February and is attempting to also claw back the last three months of his wages at the club. The disagreement stems from his acrimonious departure from the Parc des Princes earlier in the summer and whether he would be able to leave on a free transfer.

The tournament, which will include teams such as Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester City , will run for the first time from June 15 to July 13 in 2025 and will be marketed as the best of the best slugging it out across the United States. According to Paris Saint-Germain chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is also chairman of the European Club Association, the new-and-expanded version of the tournament will become one of the biggest competitions on the planet.

Kylian Mbappe is reportedly set to take a pay-cut ahead of joining Real Madrid, after confirming he will be leaving Paris Saint-Germain after seven years this summer on Friday evening. The France captain has long been linked with a move from Parc des Princes to the Bernabeu, and last summer refused to sign a new one-year deal to allow him to make the move to LaLiga as a free agent. Mbappe has since remained tight-lipped on his future destination, refusing to be drawn on his next move until the end of the campaign. 

Kylian Mbappe has confirmed that this will be his final season at PSG after seven years at the club. The 25-year-old made the announcement in a post on social media on Friday and confirmed his final game at the Parc des Princes will come when they play host to Toulouse on Sunday. Mbappe has long been linked with a move away from the French capital, and is expected to complete a long-awaited deal to join Real Madrid when his contract expires at the end of the season. 

Once they step out of the eye of the storm it is easier for players and managers to see just how destabilising Paris Saint-Germain's obsession to win the Champions League has been. 'The pressure for the Champions League was too strong,' now-Chelsea centre back Thiago Silva, who spent eight years at PSG, told Le Parisien last year. 'It was something that hurt me because I saw the situation change, and the pressure increased to win. But that's not how you win. It's a question of consistency year after year.'

After the City's insistence that the stadium was not for auction, Paris St Germain will leave the Parc des Princes, according to club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi on Thursday. Now is the time to complain that the stadium is no longer for sale.' We know what we want, but we took years to try and buy it. We're getting what we want now, so it's quicker for us. We've all been beaten. At a UEFA Congress, Al-Khelaifi told reporters, 'We want to get out of the Parc.' The move comes as the French giants prepare to lose Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid after his deal came to an end in the summer.

On Friday, news of the European Super League's revival dominated Europe's front pages, but they were split on whether the initiative is good or harmful. After the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg found that UEFA and FIFA had 'abused a dominant position' by threatening the original 12 clubs that attempted to break away in 2021, the Super League organisers wasted no time in announcing version 2.0 of their program. The UEFA monopoly is over, football is free," A22 declared, then outlined plans for a men's competition of 64 top European teams split over three divisions destined to destabilize UEFA's Champions League.

PSG faces Newcastle's first home match back in the Champions League as PSG faces the two richest clubs in football at St James' Park on Wednesday night. Since being taken over by the Qatar Investment Authority in 2012, the perennial French champions have dominated the domestic scene. PSG has been pushed to great success by Qatar Sports Investments, but the Champions League remains elusive, with just the single final claiming to be back in 2020.

During a lighter period of the King's state visit to France, Charles was given the number 3 jersey, emblazoned with his name by PSG's beaming president Nasser Al-Khelaifi. The shirt, as well as its number, was a subtle nod to King Charles III's name and was given to the 74-year-old as he toured the Rugby World Cup village in Saint-Denis, north of France's capital. Despite the bleak weather, the King seemed bright and at ease as he spoke in French with youth and PSG players while sheltering under an umbrella. As France continued to host the Rugby World Cup, Charles and Queen Camilla were meeting with community sports groups and celebrities, including French-Ivorian football star Didier Drogba (inset).

As the Saudi Pro League (SPL) transfer window finally closed, clubs in Europe breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday night. As a new footballing machine came on and signed a whole host of world class and Premier League stars, it would be difficult to recall 2023 as anything other than the Saudi summer. As we find out whether this summer was just a one-off or, as is more likely, the Middle East becomes a favorite destination for top flight clubs around Europe for courting players.

Chelsea fans have been led to believe that Enzo Fernandez may have revealed that the club is signing Kylian Mbappe. The Blues want to hijack Liverpool's spectacular move for the France World Cup champion, according to Mail Sport on Sunday night. It comes as the 24-year-old is about to leave Paris Saint-Germain after the club put him up for auction and left him out of their pre-season tour last week.

Marco Verratti, a Paris Saint-Germain midfielder, has signed an agreement with Al-Hilal for a three-year contract. Verratti is willing to make the switch, according to Fabrizio Romano, but PSG President Nasser Al Khelaifi has no desire to accept Al-Hilal's new bid of £25 million (€30 million). Al-Hilal is expected to increase their Verratti's offer shortly. Verratti's name emerged after his PSG colleague Kylian Mbappe turned down a world record transfer to Al-Hilal.

Kylian Mbappe is currently out on holiday in Cameroon, accompanied by a massive armoured convoy. He was picked up by a tinted SUV and led around by a police convoy led by a military-style armoured vehicle as soon as he touched down in the central African country on Thursday. Earlier this week, the French superstar was seen visiting a school run by his charitable group 'Inspired By KM' and looking carefree as he fired some hoops with a group of local children. Make no mistake about it. Mbappe's football career is also under intense strain. After making it clear that he has no intention of prolonging his contract by another year, the 24-year-old has been given a two-week deadline by PSG to decide on what his next steps will be.

Last year, Nasser Al-Khelaifi told Le Parisien, "We need players who love the team, who love to fight, and who love to win." We want this mentality to be around the team.' And now, one year on, Paris Saint-Germain appears to be living up to their word. The appeal of land star names outside of their prime years has waned, and has instead been replaced by an eagerness to grow from youth and put faith in a hotbed as wealthy as Paris. Lionel Messi, 35, and Sergio Ramos, 37, have both been released; Mauro Icardi, 30, has come back from a loan spell with no prospect of reintegration; and Kylian Mbappe, 30, who has remained on the books six years after signing; as he did last summer, much as he did. PSG appears to be unbothered to be held to ransom at this moment.

MIKE KEEGAN: Both bidders in the Manchester United battle are finalizing contract terms with the club's suppliers, with the club's managers deciding on exclusivity later this week. Lawyers representing Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani and British petrochemical billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe are in consultation with Raine Group, the US merchant bank that is governing the transaction. Ratcliffe's Ineos outfit had nosed in front, but Mail Sport has discovered that those acting on behalf of Sheikh Jassim - who at one time thought they had lost - are now deeply involved in the game following the dramatic unveiling of an improved bid last week.

'Leton Messi's demise made an example' out of him, as the sign of a'new age' in which actor players have more demands and less privileges.' That is according to French newspaper L'Equipe, who published news of Messi's two-week suspension for an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia on their front page on Wednesday. A portrait of a pensive Messi and PSG owner Nasser Al-Khelaifi appeared alongside the headline 'La Rupture,' with L'Equipe announcing that Messi's time in Paris is coming to an end this summer.

MATT BARLOW: Tottenham Hotspur is a footballer who plays for football in the United States, Jahm Najafi and his New York investment company, is keen to sell £3.1 billion for the north London club. Spurs are unconcerned on the subject. They maintain that there has been no attempt. And there isn't any word from Nafaji, an Iranian-American who was also linked to a transfer for Everton, who watched their game against Southampton at Goodison Park last month. According to the Financial Times, his interest in Tottenham goes 'weeks away' from any formal approach. Despite a common belief that if the price was correct, the club's billionaire owner Joe Lewis and chairman Daniel Levy have displayed little curiosity in the past, despite a widespread belief that they would be ready to sell if the offer was correct.

Players from Paris Saint-Germain also paid a visit to a construction site that will shortly be home to their new £263 million training facility. Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, and Neymar's likes changed their football kits for hard hats, jackets, and trousers as they got to see where they'll be training from next season. Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the PSG chairman who welcomed the players to the hospital, hopes that this will enable them to train under the best conditions for years to come.'

With the World Cup coming to an end, one of the tournament's most popular topics has been the debating of the sport 'padel' by several of football's top players. Padel is the world's fastest-growing racket sport, and it is becoming more popular among retired footballers. Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the founder of Premier Padel and the highest level of professional padel, has stepped up to fulfill the request by staging a daily tournament during the 2022 World Cup, with stars including Kaka, Clarence Seedorf, and Brazilian Ronaldo competing.

Nasser Al-Khelaifi has mocked the'stupid scheme' to revive a breakaway European Super League, insisting that fans "will never let it happen." Al-Khelaifi, the president of Paris Saint-Germain, is one of the few Champions League clubs not to have played in the original foiled Super League last year. Since being recruited with both Barcelona and Real Madrid in a breakaway league, Al-Khelaifi, who is also chairman of the European Club Association (ECA), is unconcerned.

Qatar Sports Investments, the club's founders, have been searching for new investment since the summer by selling off a 5 percent stake. Various interested parties have since began to discuss their respective interests. According to Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the owners' representative in France and president of the club, the 15 percent interest talks were taking place under the club's valuation, which was estimated at '€4 billion'.

On Tuesday, UEFA met with A22 Sports, the group behind a new European Super League, in Nyon, and the organization has flatly denied the suggestion of a breakaway league. When they spoke with A22 Sports' new CEO Bernd Reichart and its founders Anas Laghrari and John Hahn, they met with UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin (right) and officials from Europe's top leagues. Nasser Al-Khelaifi (left), Chairman of European Club Association (ECA) Chairman and Paris Saint-Germain President Javier Tebas (middle), as well as LaLiga president Javier Tebas (middle), attended the meeting along with the CEOs of several clubs and representatives from supporters' groups.

Qatar Sports Investment (QSI), the PSG's owners, have acquired a minority interest in Sporting Braga, Portugal. Since 2011, QSI has owned the French giants, and they have helped the club become one of Europe's best-owning companies as they have won 29 titles in their 10-year ownership of the Ligue 1 club. Braga is the third club to play with QSI, as they also invested in KAS Eupen, Belgium's national team, who compete in the country's top division.