The FFF refused to re-examine the injunction made to PSG to pay its former player 55 million euros in unpaid debts. The club will now file a new appeal before the CNOSF.
Paris SG suffered a new failure on Friday in the standoff with its ex-star Kylian Mbappé: the French Football Federation (FFF) rejected its request to re-examine the injunction to pay it 55 million euros in unpaid debts. .
The appeal was not even examined on its merits by the Executive Committee, according to a source close to the matter cited by AFP. The legal department of the FFF simply noted that the request had been made a day too late, while the club had 10 days to make it from the decision of the LFP joint appeal committee in favor of the player, October 25.
Possible appeal to the administrative court
A first legal commission of the LFP had already ordered PSG to pay these 55 million euros, after the refusal of mediation by the player. This formal refusal is a small snub for the club. Even though PSG, notified of this decision on Friday morning, did not expect an outcome in its favor with the ComEx.
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Indeed, there was little chance that the decision-making body would disavow a decision motivated by two successive LFP legal commissions regarding the captain of the France team. From now on, the club will file an appeal before the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), a question of principle, indicated a source close to management.
“Nothing counts before the industrial tribunal”
Another appeal before the administrative court will also theoretically be available to him. In the eyes of Parisian leaders, the dispute will inevitably have to end before the industrial tribunal, if Kylian Mbappé decides to refer it to them. “Nothing counts before the industrial tribunal”we underlined Friday within the club.
The conflict originates in the status of an agreement reached in August 2023 between the striker and the club's management. The captain of the France team 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.
A “hidden” agreement at the heart of the dispute
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 “occult 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 salaries provided for in his contract (April, May, June), as well as an ethics bonus over these three months.
“The player has made clear and repeated commitments”
“In law and in fact, the player has made clear and repeated public and private commitments which the club simply asks him to honor and respect in view of the unprecedented benefits he has received from the club for seven years”insists for its part the club, which speaks of a question “in good faith and honesty”.
