It has been almost a year since Kylian Mbappe signed a five-year contract with the Spanish champions and the European champions of Real Madrid after seven seasons with Paris Saint-Germain. The striker, it seems, has not yet finished his former club, launching a legal offensive against them.
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It has been almost a year since the French superstar Kylian Mbappe made a successful move to Real Madrid after spending seven seasons with Paris Saint-Germain, including a five-year contract worth 15 million euros per year after the taxes as well as signature costs of 150 million euros.
The chapter of PSG of Mbappe’s career, however, is not yet closed with the attacker launching a legal offensive against the giants of Ligue 1 Thursday. The reason – 55 million euros ($ 61 million) in unpaid wages and bonuses that Mbappe claims that PSG still owes it.
The Paris court court gave the green light so that the funds are seized with PSG and frozen in a protective manner while the case is heard, announced its legal team during a press conference.
An audience of the court in the increasingly bitter dispute is scheduled for May 26.
Lawyers have also announced that MBAPPE would carry his case before the Labor Court in the context of a wider case deposited by the Syndicate of French players (UNFP).
The union filed a complaint with the labor court a year ago to say that players who refused to agree on new contracts were sidelined in their clubs, according to Mbappe, an exercise was used against him when he was not selected by PSG at the start of the 2023-2024 season.
“We are attacking,” said Mbappe lawyer Delphine Verheyden at a press conference.
“It is only an employee against a bad payer,” added Verheyden. “Kylian Mbappe is determined to apply his rights, not only for himself but for all the other players” who believe that they were injured by their clubs.
‘Parallel universe’
Mbappe also continues defamation, targeting online stories that he claims to have been planted by PSG.
A PSG spokesperson rejected allegations as “a fanciful story of a parallel universe”, but said that the club would always like to find “a friendly solution”.
A club official, speaking anonymously, told AFP that he had “no problem” to fight against the case before the Labor Court and declared that Mbappe “will not win”.
The origin of the dispute dates back to an agreement in August 2023, when Mbappe was frozen from the PSG team for refusing to extend its contract.
An extension would have enabled PSG to receive transfer fees if Mbappe then left before the end of his contract, but he did not leave for nothing under the rules of freedom of contract and signed for real in June 2024.
Under the agreement, Mbappe said that he would give up 55 million euros in various bonuses if he left for free at the end of last season.
But the validity of the agreement is disputed by the entourage of the player. They describe it as a “hidden agreement”.
The sum that Mbappe claims that it is due is made up of the last third of the signature costs, of 36 million euros raw, that he was supposed to receive in February, as well as his salary of last three months of last season and a bonus covering the same period.
The owners of PSG Qatar Sports Investments have deep funds, but they earn in place, the 55 million euros will be inaccessible until the case is resolved, which could take several years.
This is a considerable part of the annual budget of 800 million euros from a club which won its 11th French League title in 13 seasons last weekend and is about to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League after a 3-1 victory against Aston Villa during the first leg of the quarter-final on Wednesday.
Mbappe spent seven years at PSG, scoring 256 goals in 308 games.
After a Tremblant departure in Madrid, he managed a series of forms, scoring 22 goals in La Liga and seven in the Champions League so far this season.
With AFP entrances
