Paris Saint-Germain on big bonus to beat Chelsea

Paris Saint-Germain players will each receive €250,000 if they can overcome Chelsea and secure a place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, according to several French newspapers.

The French side have never gone further than the quarter-finals in the Champions League - Chelsea knocking them out at the last-eight stage last season - but their Qatar-based owners appear to be offering an added incentive for them to overcome Chelsea on Wednesday night.

According to reports, Laurent Blanc's side having already landed a €100,000 bonus each after reaching the knockout stages. The prize pot increases to €750,000 if they make the final in Berlin and €1m if they were to emerge victorious on May 27. 

But Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has revealed his side have not earned any bonuses for their European progress so far, and will only do so should they win the Champions League.

"You know, for a long, long, long time, I don’t have bonuses," said the Portuguese.

"I just have bonuses to win competitions. So I forgot that feeling. I had that feeling, but the last time was at Porto. I never had a bonus (like that) again and I don’t think we should.

"The club (Chelsea) pay us a very good salary to do our job the best we can. We do that job as best we can. If we take the club into quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals, but we don't win the competition, we are doing a very good job for the club financially but I don’t think we should get extra money, on top of our salaries, if we don't win the last prize."

Mourinho said he would "pay to win" football matches if he could, but insisted you cannot put a price on professional pride.

"It's nice I think if somebody puts on the table €250,000 or pounds to win a certain match," he said. "It's nice, but I think professionalism goes above and beyond that.

"For me, it's more important the happiness and pride of success than the money. I'm not saying I would, but if I could pay to win, I'd pay to win.

"Every player at the high level has enough money in salaries and I think everyone plays to win. When you win (a competition), you can get an extra bonus like people do in other walks of life, like in some companies when you reach certain objectives.

"That happens in many areas of society. You reach certain objectives and people get extra payments, reaching some targets or numbers. That's fine."

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