PSG ordered to pay 55 million euros to Mbappé. But the club is not having it – Football

The legal commission of the French football league has PSG condemned to pay to Kylian Mbappé 55 million in back wages. These are the wages due for April, May and June 2024 that the French club had not paid to the striker, who in the summer moved to free transfer to Real MadridThis is yet another chapter in a story that is far from over.

Wages not paid unfairly

According to what he writes The teamin its ruling, the commission considers that PSG has “unfairly” failed to pay its player “the salary elements provided for in the amendment to the employment contract concluded between the two parties on 21 May 2022”, an amendment approved by the French football league. PSG management believed they had a verbal agreement with Mbappé in the event that he left the club on a free transfer. The striker responded that the terms of this agreement were not respected by the club, since he saw his employment drastically reduced after announcing his departure at the end of the season.

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The failed mediation

After hearing lawyers for both sides on Wednesday and having attempted mediationrejected by Mbappé, the legal commission ruled that none of the evidence in the file was such as to demonstrate “neither the formation of an agreement resulting from the offer made” by Mbappé, specifying that “the offer has lapsed”, “nor a right of Paris Saint-Germain not to pay the salary components provided for in the contract”.

As a result, the LFP legal commission ordered PSG to pay within a week what he owes to his former player: 55 million euros, corresponding to the player’s last three months’ salary in Paris and the related bonuses.

PSG does not intend to pay

The team from the French capital was not intimidated and announced that it has no intention of paying those 55 million. Explaining to the league that if the player wants them, he will have to try to ask for them through an appeal to the courts. “In light of the limits of the legal competence of the LFP commission in terms of adopting a final decision on this matter – the Parisian club announced – the case will now have to be brought before another jurisdiction”. A source close to the PSG management summed up the situation well to the AFP agency: “We are not paying”.