2023-07-22 15:52:23
The football charter defines the contours of a situation like that of Kylian Mbappé, dismissed from the group for the Paris tour in Asia.
And now ? The Parisian group takes off this Saturday for Asia and its summer tour. As we learned on Friday, it will be without Kylian Mbappé, dismissed because of his choice not to extend. PSG do not want to take the risk of losing Bondy’s crack without transfer compensation in 2024. Especially since the leaders suspect that the person concerned is OK with Real Madrid for next year… Extension or transfer: that’s the club’s position. Mbappé will therefore work with the other undesirables, within a very specific framework. “Except for medical reasons, the club cannot keep any player under professional contract away from the system set up within the club for the preparation and collective training of professional players.“, can we read in article 507, which concerns the “workforce management“, from soccer charter. There is also a significant difference between the transfer window period and the season.
Clearly, clubs can do pretty much what they want during the summer, in this case from July 1 to September 1. “No constraint in the management of the workforce is imposed on the clubs during this period except that of allowing all players under professional contract to benefit from the following conditions of preparation and training“, we explain, citing “access to changing rooms that may be different but of identical quality», «the supply of equipment provided for all professional players», «access to medical care that may be different but of the same quality», «access to different training facilities of the same quality», «training schedules compatible with the other preparation and training conditions of the main group of professionals as well as respectful of the health of the players» et «access to training supervised by a coach holding a federal diploma under the supervision of the coach of the club holding the BEPF or the BEFF“. No worries about creating what is commonly called a loft, so even if the UNFP is only a moderate fan of this kind of practice…
With the undesirables
Remember that Mbappé is not the only player banned and not selected for the tour in Japan and South Korea. Abdou Diallo, Timothée Pembélé, Colin Dagba, Leo Paredes, Gini Wijnaldum, Edouard Michut, Julian Draxler, Djeidi Gassama and Mauro Icardi are also in this case. Luis Enrique doesn’t count on them, neither does the club. They are asked to find a new employer. Some are already in the process of leaving, like Icardi, expected shortly at Galatasaray. The Mbappé case is obviously very, very different.
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Still, from September 2 to June 30, the rules change, and the clubs “must allow players under a professional contract to participate in collective training with the group or groups of players making up the professional group or groups and in individual training. They must give their professional players under contract the means to train to enable them to reach or maintain a level of physical condition sufficient for the practice of professional football in competition.“. A loft during the season? It’s not planned. However, any club can send players to a second group. But said groupmust be composed of a minimum of 10 players under professional, elite or trainee contract“if we are talking about a club in the French Ligue 1 championship, eight for the L2. Players must also benefit from a certain number of preparation and training conditions (dressing room, equipment, care, etc.). All under the orders of acoach holding a federal diploma under the control of the club coach holding the BEPF or the BEFF».
Temporary layoff
It’s not that simple though: you can’t relegate a player to the second group indefinitely or for any reason. “The release of any player under professional contract in the second training group, according to the criteria and conditions defined above, must be made on a temporary basis for exclusively sporting reasons related to the management of the workforce.“, we explain. Obviously, PSG could let Kylian Mbappé train with the first group… without however playing. Except that we imagine that this would put Luis Enrique in an impossible position on a daily basis and in relation to other players.
«It must in no case be extended on a regular, permanent and definitive basis, resembling a dismissal of the player contrary to the spirit of the text and the professional footballer’s employment contract.“, we add. Otherwise, “KM” could seize the authorities as Hatem Ben Arfa and Adrien Rabiot have done in the past to demand his reinstatement. Moreover, the UNFP has already stepped up and warned the Paris-SG. Obviously, we may not get there: it would go through an extension or a transfer of the 24-year-old player by the end of the transfer window.
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