The highly publicised divorce between PSG and Kylian Mbappé is destined to end up in court after the Parisian club refused to pay the French footballer €55 million in arrears, as urged by the French Professional Football League (LFP).
The LFP’s legal commission gave the green light on Thursday to Mbappé’s salary claim after finding that the mediation he had proposed on Wednesday was not going to be accepted by the club. current Real Madrid player.
Paris Saint-Germain, however, has reacted by announcing that it will not pay the 55 million euros and saying it is “happy to present all the facts in the coming months and years” to the courts.
“In light of the limitations of the legal scope of the Commission (of the LFP) to make a full decision on this matter, the issue must now be challenged in another legal forum,” said the club chaired by Nasser Al-Khelaifi in a statement published by Efe.
Signing bonus and 3 months salary
The Parisian club, controlled by the capital of the oil state of Qatar, owes its all-time top scorer his salaries for the months of April, May and June 2024, as well as part of the signing bonus, which was due to be paid on February 29.
The Parisian club insists that “the player has made clear and repeated public and private commitments that must be respected.” PSG is referring to the commitment not to collect part of his salary if he were to leave at the end of his contract, as happened last June for Real Madrid.
Renewed by PSG in May 2022 for a historic contract worth 72 million euros gross per season, the French club regretted that Mbappé did not accept the negotiation route initially proposed by the League and reproached its former player for a lack of gratitude.
“He has been granted unprecedented benefits for seven years in Paris,” he said, while regretting that the footballer from Bondy is trying to continue with this salary affair “incomprehensibly damaging to his reputation.”
180 million euros
Bondy signed for PSG in 2017 from Monaco, when he was 18, for 180 million euros, in one of the most expensive transfers in the history of football.
World Cup winner in 2018 with the French national team, he won all the national titles with PSG and was the top scorer in the league on six occasions. With 256 goals in 309 games, he is the top scorer in PSG’s history. The Champions League is his biggest thorn in the side’s side: he lost the 2020 final to Bayern Munich.
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