the player appeals to the FFF Higher Appeals Commission

New stage in the dispute between Mbappé and PSG: the French star, who is claiming 55 million euros in unpaid wages from his former club, appealed to the FFF's higher appeals committee on Friday, theAFP from a source close to the case. This referral comes a few days after a decision by the LFP, already submitted by the player.

On December 11, the LFP disciplinary committee concluded that “the inadmissibility of the referral made» by Mbappé because PSG took the League before the Paris judicial court following two previous decisions, those of the LFP legal commission (September 11) then the joint appeals commission (October 25) which requested PSG to pay the amount. It was following these two decisions that PSG took the LFP to court. In the meantime, the FFF also rejected a request from the club filed after the deadline.

On Friday, a new stage in the conflict between PSG and the player took place: Delphine Verheyden, Kylian Mbappé's lawyer, referred the matter to the FFF's higher appeals commission, indicated a source close to the matter, confirming information from theTeam.

PSG questions itself after this decision

«A question arises: after all this time, why did the player not file a complaint before the only court that can rule on this matter, the industrial tribunal? Odd», Commented a source close to PSG. “Instead, we are going around in circles in bodies that are not designed to deal with this dispute, or the player is simply seeking to sanction his former club, without really wanting to get his money back.“, continued the source.

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The conflict finds its origins in the status of an agreement reached in August 2023 between the attacker and the management of the Parisian club. The captain of the Blues was then excluded from the group for refusing to extend his contract with PSG. This extension would have guaranteed the club to receive the money from a transfer while Mbappé finally signed up free this summer with Real Madrid.

In this agreement, the player agreed to waive 55 million in various bonuses if he were to leave free at the end of the season. But the validity of this agreement, which the player himself had mentioned publicly to journalists in January, is contested by the star's camp, which evokes a “hidden agreement”. He requests the payment of a sum of 55 million euros which includes the final third of a signing bonus (36 million euros gross) that the player was supposed to receive in February, the last three months of salary provided for in his contract (April, May, June), as well as an ethics bonus during these three months.