PSG have refused to pay Kylian Mbappe almost £50million in unpaid wages despite being ordered to do so – with the explosive saga now set to be settled in court.
The club were told to fork out €55m (£46m) – a figure including missing bonuses as well as wages from the forward’s seven-year spell in Paris – by the LFP, French professional football’s governing body, but have confirmed they will not follow the ruling.
Mbappe is thought to have contacted UEFA last month over the salary dispute.
He was initially meant to receive a hefty signing bonus in February and is attempting to also claw back the last three months of his wages at the club.
The disagreement stems from his acrimonious departure from the Parc des Princes earlier in the summer and whether he would be able to leave on a free transfer.
PSG have refused to pay Kylian Mbappe £46m in unpaid wages despite being ordered to do so
Mbappe is chasing the hefty figure after his acrimonious departure from the Parc des Princes
‘Given the limits of the legal scope of the committee to make a complete decision on this case, the case must now be contested before another jurisdiction, to which PSG will be happy to present all the facts in the months and years to come,’ the club said.
Tensions boiled over when Mbappe informed PSG he would not trigger a one-year contract extension, ensuring he would instead leave for nothing this year. He was put up for sale and excluded from training.
But he was eventually welcomed back into the squad after reaching an agreement that, according to Mbappe, ‘managed to protect all the parties’.
In a letter sent to Mbappe’s lawyer, PSG alleged that the player’s legal representatives proposed an agreement in August 2023 that would see him reduce his bonuses by €55m during the 2023-24 campaign.
This then resulted in his reintegration but the proposal is said to have not been signed off nor sent to the league. PSG claim this was the case because of a verbal agreement between Mbappe and Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the club’s president.
PSG are willing to take the saga to court (pictured: club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, left)
Mbappe declined an offer of mediation several months on from leaving PSG on a free transfer
Reports previously indicated that PSG had refused to pay Mbappe his wages in an effort to save a promised loyalty bonus written into his extension in 2022.
Regardless, the LFP’s legal commission ordered the club to hand over the full amount a day after Mbappe rejected a mediation offer to resolve the dispute.
Mbappe, the captain of the French national side, joined Real Madrid earlier in the summer. His departure came after years of reported disputes with PSG.
Since his move to Spain, the ace has made five appearances for the LaLiga title holders, scoring his debut goal against Atalanta in the UEFA Super Cup and winning his first trophy at the club. He has scored twice in the league to date.
