Financial dispute: the explosive exit of Mbappé’s lawyer against PSG

Paris wants to save time. This is the meaning of the remarks made by Kylian Mbappé’s lawyer this Friday, in the context of the financial dispute between his client and his former employer, PSG, since his departure last summer. As a reminder, the French international continues to claim 55 million euros in unpaid bonuses and salaries, corresponding more precisely to the amount of his signing bonus, his last three months of salaries in Paris, and his “d” bonus. ‘ethics”. Paris and the player have been passing the buck to the authorities for several months now to defend their interests. The legal commission of the LFP as well as the higher appeal commission of the FFF were thus requested by the Mbappé clan to settle this dispute which, barring any twists and turns, should end before the industrial tribunal, empowered to settle labor law disputes.

An extended soap opera, which is visibly starting to annoy the French international. In an interview with the newspaper The TeamDelphine Verheyden, Kylian Mbappé’s lawyer, has indeed expressed her incomprehension regarding PSG’s position: “when I pleaded before the legal commission of the League, I told its members: “We come before you for an extraordinary club, an extraordinary player, but for a terribly ordinary matter. There is a signed, approved fixed-term contract , executed and where the player is not paid It is distressingly banal.» As a reminder, Mbappé had concluded an oral (or moral) agreement with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, recording the renunciation of his various bonuses to avoid leaving Paris empty-handed after his free departure to Madrid. Problem: no document can legally prove it.

“The affair could bring down the whole system»

Concretely, the player’s lawyer accuses Paris of playing with the regulations: “PSG has taken the LFP before the Paris judicial court, considering that it is not competent to force a club to respect the commitments it has made, regrets the lawyer. To participate in a professional Championship, PSG accepts the regulations. But at the end of the story he says that the League and the Federation have no power over him as a club. We are in a case that is becoming much larger than just my client’s case. It can bring down the whole system. Incidentally, the club is saying loud and clear to all other clubs: “Stop paying your players, force them to go to the industrial tribunal “.

Problem is, the referral of this case to the industrial tribunal should give rise to an interminable file, since the procedures can sometimes stretch over several years. While for the lawyer, such a “classic” case has no reason to drag on: “the industrial tribunal takes a year and a half to have a decision at first instance, two years on appeal and the same amount on cassation. They will all have finished their career before being paid (…) PSG wants to escape football regulations. He is willing to bring down the system rather than fulfill his obligations. If the authorities do not protect the contracts and their regulations, we send a strong signal which says: “You can trample all the players”castigates Delphine Verheyden. We seem closer to the beginning than the end of this affair.