Despite judgments from the Legal Commission of the Professional Football League (LFP) and the Joint National Appeal Commission favorable to Kylian Mbappé in the dispute between the French international striker and his former club, PSG, the case remains suspended to this day, the payment of the 55 million euros in bonuses and salaries claimed by the Real Madrid player remaining contested by the Parisian management.
Faced with the non-execution of the verdict, Kylian Mbappé recently appealed to the LFP Disciplinary Commission. In vain. The League is hiding behind the parallel legal proceedings opened by PSG. “ Paris Saint-Germain having since taken the LFP to the Paris Judicial Court, with a view to obtaining the annulment of these two decisions, the Disciplinary Commission concluded that the referral made by Mr. Kylian Mbappé was inadmissible. », Communicated the LFP on Wednesday evening.
Pandora’s box opened?
For the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP), this is an admission of weakness on the part of the Professional Football League, which thus gives in to the pressure exerted by the capital club on a legal level . “ This is not the first, and unfortunately not the last time, that a club has used all possible recourses to circumvent a decision. But summoning the LFP to invalidate its own commissions is a first! (…) We could therefore make fun of signed contracts and regulations, open a Pandora’s box, and ultimately attack the Professional Football Charter. This is unacceptable, yes », the union is indignant in a press release published this Thursday.
“ What is at stake here is not just a matter of bonuses or players, but the fundamental principles of labor lawinsists the association. The UNFP and the players it represents will never accept seeing these rights violated. (…) The players in the game expressly ask the LFP to enforce its regulations. If necessary, we will be at his side to counter this obvious desire to limit the regulatory powers of the League. »
