Hatem Ben Arfa has still not found a club since leaving Lille in the summer of 2022. His last match dates back to April 2, 2022 against the Girondins de Bordeaux. Now 36, the native of Clamart finally won his case last week in his case with PSG.
He had PSG condemned by the Paris Court of Appeal, according to L’Équipe. The club was notably prosecuted for moral harassment and for unpaid bills. But Hatem Ben Arfa will only get a little more than 100,000 euros out of the 7.7 million euros he was asking for.
Shelved from April 2017 to June 2018
Arriving at PSG free after his move to OGC Nice in June 2016, the international attacking midfielder (15 caps) has only played 32 games in all competitions in the Parisian jersey with a record of four goals and seven assists. “HBA” had been removed from the Parisian first team from April 2017, after offending Nasser Al-Khelaïfi by allowing himself a remark to the Emir of Qatar. He then did not play again at all and finally left in June 2018 at the end of a season without any match.
To justify moral harassment, Ben Arfa pointed out that he was ousted at the last minute from the preparation camp in the United States in July 2017. In September, he was even asked to train with the team. of National 2. It was only when he seized the legal commission of the LFP that he was able to rejoin the pro group.
He gets two days’ salary and an ethics bonus
Ben Arfa underlined “that his undesirable status and the club’s desire to see him leave in the off-season have been repeatedly mentioned in front of the press. “For justice, the conditions of the sidelining of the player (training with the reserve team and non-selection for an internship abroad) were excessive. These facts, judged to be moral harassment, resulted in PSG having to pay a symbolic euro.
The club was also ordered to pay just over 100,000 euros to the player. The sum includes two days of salary deduction in December 2017, because, suffering, he could not take the plane to go to Qatar. The absence was however justified. The former Newcastle player therefore obtains the 27,419.35 euros in back pay for the two days of absence (his fixed monthly salary being 425,000 euros), as well as the 75,000 euros of the ethics bonus for the month of December. A sum quite far from the 7.7 million requested by Ben Arfa.