Kylian mbappéThe Legal Team is going on “attack” to try to resolve the dispute between the World Championship winner and his former club Paris Saint-Germain.
The France Striker claims that PSG owes him 55 million euros ($ 61 million) for unpaid wages, and his lawyers claim to have asked the Paris court to initiate proceedings.
Legal expert Thomas Clay said that Mbappé was entitled to make preventive seizure of money that was frozen on Thursday from PSG bank accounts. The legal hearing is scheduled for 26 May, he added.
“This story has been going on for over a year. One year was the deadline we created to try to resolve this dispute as possible,” said Mbappé Delphine Verheyden, chief lawyer.
“As the months passed, Kylian Mbappé has not yet been paid out by the missing EUR 55 million. A decision was taken, this time to attack.”
Verheyden said that they were also asking the French Minister of Sports to intervene, and to legally question the decision of the Appeal Commission of the French football Federation, which decided that Mbappévo appeal against PSG was not a pleasure.
She said she would also ask UEFA to look at this matter and claim that PSG violates his payments. Verheyden suggested that PSG, if it was found, could lose a license that would allow the club to play in the Champions League.
In its statement, PSG said that it still wants to achieve a “friendly” dispute solution, despite repeated symptoms of bad faith and complete rejection of any player mediation.
The club added: “After hearing another fantastic story from today’s parallel universe, PSG still does not understand why Kylian Mbappé does not take his case to the Labor Chamber, which is the only judicial competent settlement of the dispute between him and his former club.
“All the procedures announced by Kyliana Mbappé lawyers serve only to delay the solution of the dispute through the working chamber, before which the PSG is ready to submit all the facts, evidence and testimony showing the existence of the agreement, or even better through the transaction that PSG calls for more than a year.”
Last October“The Commission for the Releasing the French League confirmed a decision ordered by PSG to pay Mbappé unpaid wages he wants. Mbappé claims that the club owes him three months of salary and the last third of the loyalty bonus.
Joined Real Madrid Last summer with a free transmission after scoring 256 goals of the 256 club in PSG in seven years.
PSG argued that when Mbappé was reflected before the season 2023-24-after his decision not to break his contract-to the oral agreement, deciding to give up bonuses to return to the team.
Mbappé’s relationship with PSG ended up in the middle of deep tension, and some fans jumped him in his last home game in Parc des Princes. PSG felt that Mbappé, after offering him the most lucrative contract in the history of the club when he signed a new contract in 2022.
But Mbappé was frustrated because he felt that promises to sign key players were not maintained. When he signed this agreement, he was marching in front of the fans who held the jersey with 2025. Mbappé was reportedly angry because the contract was by 2024 – with the possibility of a player for the next season.
Mbappé amazed PSG in June 2023 by informing the club that he would not take this option for the next year. With his contract, PSG built MBAPPé into the position of need to avoid loss for nothing when the contract expired.
His PSG career could end that summer in the middle of a tense retreat.
After saying a club that would not be extended, Mbappé was left to Preseason to Japan and South Korea and forced to train with marginal players. PSG said it would rather sell it than let the players leave for free in 2024 but refused EUR 300 million ($ 335 million) to move to the Saudi team for the league Al-Hilal.
PSG left Mbappé from the opening league game this season, but soon returned to the line -up after the interviews. Mbappé’s legal team said on Thursday that they would start a lawsuit against PSG for harassment for the way it was treated.
It will also establish another legal procedure for the industrial tribunal, while Mbappé and his mother filed actions for abuse they received online.