The French striker filed an appeal before the Professional Football League over PSG's refusal to pay him 55 million euros in bonuses and salaries, according to information confirmed by AFP this Monday, December 2. A hearing will be held on December 11 before the joint committee.
The exchange of arms continues between Kylian Mbappé and his former club Paris Saint-Germain. Faced with the refusal of the capital club to pay him 55 million euros in bonuses and salaries, the French striker filed an appeal before the Professional Football League. According to a source within the LFP, a hearing will be held on December 11 before the commission, which will examine the 25-year-old player's appeal for “failure to pay bonuses and salaries”. But this date will probably not correspond to the outcome of this soap opera with innumerable legal stages.
Despite injunctions from the LFP legal commission issued on September 11, PSG refused to pay the 55 million euros requested by its ex-player. Initially, the French professional football body suggested mediation. Then it was the turn of the joint appeals committee to see its injunctions rejected by the club on October 25. The French Football Federation (FFF) then rejected a request from the club filed after the deadline.
Recently, “Kylian Mbappé reported to the LFP disciplinary committee that he had still not been paid despite the first and second instance decisions of the legal committee which ordered the club to pay him,” the attacker's entourage told AFP this Monday, December 2. “As a result, the LFP disciplinary committee decided on its own to summon PSG to a hearing to present its arguments before sanction. In case of “failure by a French professional club to pay sums owed with certainty”, the statutes of the LFP mention possible fines or a ban on recruiting. Within the management of PSG, we were not overly worried about this new procedure. According to management, the dispute will only find its conclusion before competent courts, such as the industrial tribunal.
An “occult agreement” contested by the Mbappé camp
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 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. 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”.
The French player requests payment of a sum of 55 million euros which includes the final third of a signing bonus (36 million euros gross) that the native of Bondy was supposed to receive in February, the three last months of salaries provided for in his contract (April, May, June), as well as an ethics bonus during these three months. “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 advantages he has received from the club for seven years” , insists for its part PSG, which speaks of a question “in good faith and honesty”.
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