The dispute between Kylian Mbappé and Paris Saint-Germain reached a new stage on Friday. The French star, who is demanding 55 million euros in unpaid wages from his former club, appealed to the FFF (French Football Federation) higher appeals committee on Friday, AFP learned from a source close to the matter. .
This referral comes a few days after a decision by the LFP (Professional Football League), also submitted by the player. On December 11, the disciplinary committee of the body concluded that the referral made by Mbappé was “inadmissible” because PSG had summoned the League before the Paris judicial court following two previous decisions, those of the legal commission of the LFP (September 11) then of the joint appeal commission (October 25) which asked PSG to pay the sum.
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.
“The affair could bring down the whole system”
Friday, Mbappé's clan chose to adopt a new strategy. Delphine Verheyden, Bondynois' lawyer, appealed to the FFF's higher appeals commission, indicated a source close to the matter, confirming information from the Team. The player's representative also spoke to the sports daily, believing that the matter was becoming “broader than just the case” of Mbappé. “She can blow up the whole system. Incidentally, PSG is saying loud and clear to all the other clubs: “Stop paying your players, force them to go to the industrial tribunal.”
Furthermore, according to the lawyer, “PSG wants to escape football regulations”. “He is ready to bring down the system rather than fulfill his obligations,” considers Delphine Verheyden. If the authorities do not protect contracts and their regulations, we send a strong signal that says: “You can trample on all the players.”
“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? Strange,” commented, on the other side, 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,” the source continued.
PSG sanctioned at European level?
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 in the summer of 2024 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 would include 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.
If the FFF's higher appeals committee confirms the two decisions taken by the LFP in the fall, Paris Saint-Germain is exposed to various sanctions, at national but especially European level, because in its request to the 3F, the Mbappé clan questions the “validity of the UEFA Club license, granted to the Paris Saint-Germain club for the 2024-2025 season”. If UEFA takes up the matter and rules in favor of the French striker, PSG could theoretically be deprived of its license necessary to compete in European competitions such as the Champions League.
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