Paris Saint-Germain will choose to sacrifice Kylian Mbappe rather than Neymar if Uefa Financial Fair Play (FFP) sanctions force them to restrict their wage bill and transfer expenditure before their 2018-19 Champions League campaign.

Both Real Madrid and Manchester City — the two principal competitors for Mbappe’s signature last summer — are monitoring the situation. PSG outbid both of their moneyed rivals on salary to bring Mbappe from Monaco on a €180m (currently £157.8m) transfer that was structured as a year loan, with an obligatory option to buy in an attempt to circumvent FFP regulations. The complex deal was forced upon the Qatar-owned club after some of the European game’s most established clubs complained to Uefa about the scale of the club’s world-record €222m (£194.6m)