the LFP ordered PSG to pay 55 million euros, Paris said “niet” – Libération

2024-09-12 16:11:43

The legal committee of the Professional Football League ruled this Thursday, September 12 in favor of the new Real Madrid player in the financial dispute between him and his former club. Paris-Saint-Germain has indicated that it will not pay and its former player will have to take legal action.

The rules committee of the Professional Football League has ruled. This Thursday, September 12, the board ordered Paris-Saint-Germain to pay 55 million euros for Kylian Mbappé, according to group etc The Parisian. The player has contacted the LFP legal committee, which met on Thursday in front of both clubs.

The committee initially recommended mediation but, faced with the player’s refusal, asked PSG to pay the 55 million within a week. In the process, the football club announced that they will not pay this money, warning that their former star player will have to take legal action. “According to the limits of the legal power of the LFP committee to make a complete decision on this file, it must now be before another court”, indicates the club’s capital is released. “We don’t pay”, add a source close to control to AFP.

At the beginning of the year, before the player’s decision to leave, both stations have said that Mbappé has given up part of his bonuses in the contract he made with PSG in August 2023 after being away from the club for a month. The player himself told the press on January 3: “With the agreement I made with the President this summer, whatever my decision, we managed to protect all the parties, to maintain the stability of the party for the coming challenges, that is the most important thing.”

But this “calm” quickly for the exchange of letters between the lawyers of the two parties in recent months. Kylian Mbappé requests the payment of these 55 million euros which includes the last third of the signing bonus (36 million euros gross) that the player should receive in February, the last three months of the salaries planned in your contract (April, May, June), as well as “performance bonus” over these three months.

According to the club, this request from the player is that he does not respect the contract he made in August 2023. group, that this agreement has not been signed at that time and is void. PSG, in a letter dated July 1 from its general secretary Victoriano Melero, talked about “men’s contract” and the oral agreement passed before many witnesses. And he believed that the January 3 statement from the player himself added to his legal value.