Kylian Mbappé had contacted the LFP legal committee, which met on Wednesday in the presence of both parties. The committee initially recommended mediation but, faced with the player’s refusal, asked PSG to pay the 55 million, within a week, according to several concordant sources. Following this announcement, the club stated in a press release: “Given the limits of the Commission’s legal scope to make a complete decision on this matter, the case must now be contested before another jurisdiction.” “PSG will be happy to present all the facts in the coming months and year,” it added.
Terms that leave no doubt that PSG is preparing for a long-running legal battle. “We are not paying,” a source close to the management added to AFP, according to whom it is up to the player to take the matter to court. The decision is nevertheless a short-term defeat for PSG, which welcomed the request for mediation on Wednesday and criticized the player for not accepting it. Earlier this year, before Mbappé’s decision to leave, both sides had claimed that the captain of the French team had given up part of his bonuses in an agreement reached with PSG in August 2023 after being sidelined from the team for a month. The player himself told the press on January 3: “With the agreement that I made with the president this summer, no matter what my decision is, we have succeeded (…)
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