Bayern criticise PSG wealth despite Qatari backing

AFP, BERLIN: Bayern Munich take great pride in their conservative spending policy and have vocally criticised Wednesday's big-spending Champions League opponents Paris Saint-Germain, yet both clubs profit from Qatari investors.

On the eve of the key European game at Paris' Parc de Princes, Bayern president Uli Hoenesss said the Germans would never follow the example of PSG, who paid a world record 222 million euros ($264 million) for Neymar in August.

In contrast to PSG, Bayern set a club record in June by paying a more modest 41.5m euros for midfielder Corentin Tolisso.

“I have made it clear that a player costing 100 million euros is unacceptable for Bayern”, Hoeness told German magazine Kicker.

Even Bayern's hot-shot striker Robert Lewandowski has criticised Bayern's reluctance to splash the cash.

“Bayern have to think something up and be more creative if the club wants to attract a world-class player to Munich,” Lewandowski told magazine Der Spiegel in a critical interview earlier this month which annoyed chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

Bayern criticise PSG wealth despite Qatari backing

AFP, BERLIN: Bayern Munich take great pride in their conservative spending policy and have vocally criticised Wednesdays big-spending Champions League opponents Paris Saint-Germain, yet both clubs profit from Qatari investors. On the eve of the key European game at Paris Parc de Princes, Bayern president Uli Hoenesss said the Germans would never follow the example of PSG, who paid a world record 222 million euros ($264 million) for Neymar in August. In contrast to PSG, Bayern set a club record in June by paying a more modest 41.5m euros for midfielder Corentin Tolisso. I have made it clear that a player costing 100 million euros is unacceptable for Bayern, Hoeness told German magazine Kicker. Even Bayerns hot-shot striker Robert Lewandowski has criticised Bayerns reluctance to splash the cash. Bayern have to think something up and be more creative if the club wants to attract a world-class player to Munich, Lewandowski told magazine Der Spiegel in a critical interview earlier this month which annoyed chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.