This is a new major episode in the conflict between Kylian Mbappé and PSG. After hearing the advice of the capital club and the Blues striker on Wednesday, the legal committee of the Professional Football League gave its opinion this Thursday, September 12, as announced by Le Parisien and L’Equipe.
Mbappé rejected mediation
And it clearly goes in favor of the captain of the French team, as confirmed by RMC Sport. The League’s legal committee orders PSG to pay the 55 million euros claimed by the player, in particular in bonuses and unpaid salaries for the periods of April, May and June 2024.
Meeting on Wednesday morning, the League’s legal committee had requested mediation in the financial dispute between PSG and Mbappé. A mediation rejected by the new Real Madrid striker.
“My client simply wants his work to be paid at this stage, as should be the case for any other player in his situation, and for any employee who has finished their fixed-term contract. (…) Labour law must apply,” the striker’s lawyer, Delphine Verheyden, responded to the newspaper Le Monde in the evening.
The conflict in question results from a contract between the two parties that was not signed in August 2023, at the time when Mbappé was sidelined by PSG. In a letter from his lawyer, the striker had proposed to reduce the amount of several bonuses, allowing the club to save money. But the agreement was therefore not initialed and became null and void in the eyes of the Frenchman.
Mbappé is notably demanding a bonus of 30 million gross, known as a loyalty bonus, which he should have received in September 2023. The last third of the signing bonus, amounting to 36.6 million gross, was also not paid in February 2024. His salaries for April and May 2024 had also not arrived on May 31, 2024, when Mbappé’s lawyer requested payment of the bonuses by letter.
- RMC Sport
