PSG chaos as club ‘are told to slash eye-watering wage bill’ with Neymar and Messi earning £1.6m per week alone

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN will have to slash their wage bill with Ligue 1 proposals set to take aim at the champions’ eye-watering spending.

An astonishing 18 of the French league’s top earners play for the Parisians.

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Monaco pair Wissam Ben Yedder and Cesc Fabregas find themselves among the PSG stars.

But according to L’Equipe, Ligue 1 will take steps to control PSG’s finances with the likes of Lionel Messi and Neymar earning £1.6million between them per week.

The DNCG, the financial body in charge of supervising the accounts of French clubs, will propose that no club will be able to have a wage bill greater than 70 per cent of its income.

PSG, of course, are well over the proposed percentage.

The Ligue 1 champions’ currently wage bill is close to 91 per cent of its turnover.

This means PSG will have to make significant cuts.

One way of which they could trim down the wage bill is by offloading star man Neymar.

Neymar joined PSG in a blockbuster £198m world-record deal back in 2017.

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But five years on the French giants are open to cutting their losses and parting ways with the 30-year-old star, according to Spanish newspaper AS.

The next proposed change would see that no club can have a debt greater than its share capital.

And PSG would be severely affected by this as they reportedly inject capital through Qatar Sports Investments.

Such proposals come as part of a recognition from the French football authorities that PSG’s financial strength is out of control.

There is concern that PSG, who have won the league eight out of the last ten seasons, is damaging the integrity of Ligue 1.

PSG reclaimed the Ligue 1 crown this season off Lille without a real fight.

The Parisians are sat 14 points clear of second-placed Marseille with three games to go.

Despite their dominance in the league, boss Mauricio Pochettino could be on his way out the door.

The Argentine oversaw an inconsistent campaign in Europe, which saw PSG bottle a comfortable lead against Real Madrid in the Round of 16.