the LFP orders PSG to pay 55 million euros, Paris says “niet” – Libération

The legal commission of the Professional Football League has ruled. This Thursday, September 12, the commission ordered Paris-Saint-Germain to pay the 55 million euros claimed by Kylian Mbappé, according to the Team et The Parisian. The player had contacted the LFP legal commission, which met on Wednesday in the presence of both parties.

The commission first recommended mediation but, faced with the player’s refusal, asked PSG to pay the 55 million within a week. In the process, the club announced that it would not pay this sum, warning that its former star striker would have to take legal action. “In light of the limits of the legal competence of the LFP commission to make a complete decision on this file, it must now be brought before another jurisdiction”, indicates the capital club in a press release. “We don’t pay”, added a source close to management to AFP.

At the start of the year, before the player’s decision to leave, both camps had claimed that Mbappé had given up part of his bonuses in an agreement reached with PSG in August 2023 after he was sidelined from the team for a month. The player himself declared to the press on January 3: “With the agreement I made with the president this summer, whatever my decision, we managed to protect all parties, to preserve the serenity of the club for the challenges to come, that is the most important thing .”

But this “serenity” quickly gave way to exchanges of letters between the lawyers of the two parties in recent months. Kylian Mbappé requests the payment of these 55 million euros which include 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 salaries planned in his contract (April, May, June), as well as an “ethical bonus” over these three months.

According to the club, this request from the player amounts to not respecting the agreement made in August 2023. The Mbappé camp considers for its part, according to the Team, that this agreement had not then been signed and was therefore void. PSG, in a letter dated July 1 from its general secretary Victoriano Melero, speaks of «gentlemen’s agreement» and verbal agreement passed in front of numerous witnesses. And he believes that the January 3 statement from the player himself adds to its legal value.