Ligue 1’s legal committee could get involved in PSG-Kylian Mbappé wage dispute

Kylian Mbappé’s (25) move to Real Madrid may now (finally) have been confirmed, the Frenchman still remains under contract at Paris Saint-Germain, until the end of the month of June. However, he is in conflict with his current employers and L’Équipe understands that the league may get involved. 

In order to re-integrate the PSG first-team after being ostracised from the group last summer – a drastic measure taken by the club after the player revealed that he would not extend his deal – Mbappé agreed to renounce an €80m loyalty bonus in part of a gentleman’s agreement. 

It is this that remains the point of contention. Since Mbappé informed PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi of his desire to leave the club back in February, the Frenchman has seen his game time significantly decrease, meaning that the re-integration was not durable and only partial. However, in the meantime, that €80m loyalty bonus, withheld in the Autumn of 2023, was paid in February of this year.

Mbappé’s wages go unpaid by PSG

PSG are now wanting to get that money back, by not paying Mbappé. As reported by L’Équipe his wage for April was not paid and now his June wage has now gone unpaid. It can now be assumed that his wage for July will also not be paid, with the AS Monaco academy product currently with the France national team. Mbappé, fully focused on Euro 2024, is not getting involved and it instead the relevant parties’ lawyers that are communicating on the matter. 

Both camps are insistent that they are in the right and if no agreement can be found between the pair, then Ligue 1’s legal commission could involve themselves in the matter. The Mbappé-PSG break will not be clean. 

GFFN | Luke Entwistle