The conflict between Kylian Mbappé and Paris Saint-Germain took a new turn this Thursday during a press conference organized by the lawyers of the neo-Madrilene at the Pullman hotel in Paris. As a reminder, since his departure from the capital's club last summer, the French striker has been calling for the payment of the last three months' salary from his contract, as well as signing and ethical bonuses. “The third third of the signature premium is missing, which corresponds gross to 36.66 million euros. Then April, May, June, no salary and no ethics bonus. So, in salary is missing 18.75 million euros, which brings us to the famous 55 million euros ”had notably detailed Delphine Verheyden, lawyer for Kylian Mbappé, at theAFP.
The Mbappé clan attacks!
However, faced with the resistance of the defending champions of France, which still refuse to pay despite the decisions rendered by the legal commission of the Professional Football League (LFP) then the joint joint appeal commission, last fall, the player decided to pass “At the attack” As explained by Verheyden, surrounded by three other lawyers specializing in labor law and criminal law. “We have chosen to remain very discreet. But over the months, the file has become complex. And over the months, Kylian Mbappé is still not paid 55 million euros that lacked when he left. A decision has been made and consists in attacking. This means constituting a team of specialists in labor law, civil procedure and arbitration and criminal law ”.
In detail, the Mbappé clan therefore decided to launch four procedures against PSG with two first appeals filed with the Ministry of Sports and the other with UEFA: “We have decided to take action with UEFA so that it ensures that all clubs play with the same rules of the game. UEFA will therefore ask to study the file of clubs which claim to want to compete in the Champions League and in this file there are the financial criteria and the obligation to settle the entire workforce. If a club does not pay one of its employees, it cannot have its license to compete in the Champions League. April 1 therefore began the analysis of the file for the 2025/2026 season“Added Delphine Verheyden on this subject. But that's not all.
Two remedies filed, civil and criminal procedures initiated
In addition to these appeals, the representatives of the 2018 world champion also decided to launch legal proceedings, in civilian as in criminal. The first is none other than a seizure of PSG accounts, in a conservatory manner, up to 55 million euros. “In this case, the club respects nothing: neither the employment contract, nor the law, nor the decisions of French justice. It was decided to take the club in the word and request the forced execution of decisions. This is why we pleaded yesterday before the judge for the execution of the Paris court to be authorized to seize the bank accounts of PSG. This morning we seized PSG bank accounts up to 55 million euros by a conservatory entry ”therefore announced Me Thomas Clay.
In addition, Mbappé lawyers will also file two complaints for defamation and public insults on Facebook and X. “We want to send a strong message: that's enough. We do not touch the honor, on reputation, we stop swinging on the networks, in the press a vomiting bucket on loved ones. So I filed two complaints: one concerning comments made on Facebook, one concerning remarks on X and a third complaint will be filed in a few days. It is a question of attacking the vitality of the insult, there are no limits ”said Pierre-Olivier sur, one of the lawyers, before adding that the representatives of the former Parisian were going to join a legal action by UNFP, the footballers' union, who had filed a complaint last year against the practice of the loft in football and which they consider that Kylian Mbappé was the summer of 2023.
PSG is confident …
Finally, Mbappé will also seize the industrial tribunal. “”If PSG wants us to enter the industrial tribunal, we will do it and we are very curious to see what will be when the advice will discover the methods of PSG, in particular that of the loft which consists in putting aside, or even humiliating. There are also the methods of the digital army, but also all the bullying of everyday life to force the player to sign, we will therefore seize the industrial tribunal to obtain compensation for all the damages suffered by Kylian Mbappé“Finally concluded Me Frédérique Cassereau. Many attacks working a few days after the Legal League League for the Professional Football (LFP) had ordered the PSG to settle these sums, followed in October by the joint joint appeal commission of the LFP.
For its part, Paris Saint-Germain had told him “Very satisfied that the disciplinary committee has decided not to sanction Paris Saint-Germain” and wanted to be convinced that “Declaring its application inadmissible, the disciplinary committee put an end to this sequence which only lasted too much”. In view of the remarks made at this press conference, the sequence may indeed last lasting in time, while a guidance audience was set for May 26, before examining the file in the coming months. After learning the referral of the jurisdiction by Kylian Mbappé concerning the 55 million euros of unpaid wages and bonuses, the entourage of the management of PSG also told AFP that the club “Will go to industrial tribunal without problem”that “The industrial tribunal will see all the evidence and will decide” and that Kylian Mbappé “Don't win”. Atmosphere…
