He may have left for Real Madrid this summer, but the 26-year-old is still battling a huge sum of unpaid money from the French champions.
Kylian Mbappe's move to Real Madrid may have ended his seven-year spell at Paris Saint-Germain, but it was not a clean breakthrough. The Parisian star is embroiled in an ongoing dispute with his former club over a reported $57 million in unpaid payments.
The 26-year-old has remained tight-lipped in public about the huge outstanding payment, but on Friday Mbappé's lawyer, Delphine Verheyden, spoke to French publication L'Équipe about the matter. In her statement, she claimed that PSG are trying to “escape the rules of football” by not paying Mbappe.
She continued: “[PSG] are willing to tear down the system rather than meet its obligations. If the governing bodies do not protect the contracts and their regulations, we are sending a strong message: 'You can trample the players'.”
The dispute concerns $57 million in unpaid bonuses that PSG refuses to pay. The French club claim that Mbappe has verbally agreed to forego the bonuses to ease his way back into the team after being sidelined at the start of the 2023/2024 season.
In October, an LFP legal committee in France ruled that PSG was still liable for the outstanding bonuses, but the club quickly appealed. The club has thus taken the French league to court, a move that, according to Verheyden, endangers the legitimacy of the league.
“To participate in a professional championship, PSG must accept the rules. But ultimately it says that the League and the Federation as a club have no power over it. This is becoming a much bigger problem than my client's case. It could blow up the whole system,” she explained.
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