PSG appeals LFP decision in dispute with Kylian Mbappé

The legal committee of the Professional Football League had asked the club to pay the 55 million euros unpaid to its former player.

PSG has appealed the LFP’s decision ordering it to pay 55 million euros in unpaid debts to Kylian Mbappé, who left for Real Madrid this summer, the Parisian club announced on Friday, September 20. Contacted by the star striker of the Blues, the LFP’s legal committee initially recommended mediation but, faced with the player’s refusal, asked PSG last week to pay the 55 million in dispute within a week, i.e. this Friday evening at the latest.

“In principle, PSG appealed the opinion of the LFP commission, despite its limited effect. Indeed, PSG’s position is much more than a well-founded legal position”PSG said in a statement.

The conflict between the two parties stems from the status of an agreement reached in the middle of August 2023 between Mbappé and the PSG management. The star striker was then sidelined from the team for refusing to extend his contract with PSG (this extension would have guaranteed the club to receive the money from a transfer while Mbappé signed on a free with Real Madrid at the end of last season).

In this agreement, the player agreed to give up 55 million in various bonuses if he were to leave on a free at the end of the season – which he did. But the validity of this agreement, which the player himself had publicly mentioned to journalists last January, is contested by the Mbappé camp. In his entourage, there is talk of a “occult agreement”.

Kylian Mbappé is demanding payment of a sum of 55 million euros, which includes the final third of a signing bonus (36 million euros gross) that the player was supposed to receive in February, the last three months of salary provided for in his contract (April, May, June), as well as an ethics bonus over these three months.