Paris SG suffered a new failure on Friday in the standoff with its ex-star Kylian Mbappé: the French Football Federation (FFF) rejected its request to re-examine the injunction to pay it 55 million euros in unpaid debts .
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The “request for evocation” – the technical term for this appeal – was not even examined on the merits by the Executive Committee, according to a source close to the matter. The legal department of the FFF simply noted that the request had been made a day too late, while the club had 10 days to make it from the decision of the joint appeals committee of the LFP in favor of the playerOctober 25.
A first legal commission of the LFP had already ordered PSG to pay these 55 million euros, after the refusal of mediation by the player.
Appeal before the CNOSF
This formal refusal from the FFF, notified to PSG on Friday morning, is a small snub. Even though PSG did not expect an outcome in its favor with ComEx.
Indeed, there was little chance that this body would disavow a decision motivated by two successive legal commissions of the LFP regarding the captain of the France team.
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From now on, the club will file an appeal before the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), a question of principle, indicated a source close to management. Another appeal before the administrative court will also theoretically be available to him.
In the eyes of Parisian leaders, the dispute will inevitably have to end before the industrial tribunal, if Kylian Mbappé decides to refer it to them. “ Nothing matters before the industrial tribunal », We underlined Friday within the club.
“Occult”
The conflict originates in the status of an agreement reached in August 2023 between the attacker and the club’s management.
The captain of the French team was then left out of the group for refusing to extend to PSG. This extension would have guaranteed the club to receive the money from a transfer while Mbappé finally signed up free this summer with Real Madrid.
In this agreement, the player agreed to waive 55 million in various bonuses if he were to leave free at the end of the season. But the validity of this agreement, which the player himself had mentioned publicly to journalists in January, is contested by the star’s camp, which evokes a “hidden agreement”.
He requests the payment of a sum of 55 million euros which includes the final third of a signing bonus (36 million euros gross) that the player was supposed to receive in February, the last three months of salaries provided for in his contract (April, May, June), as well as an ethics bonus over these three months.
“ In law and in fact, the player has made clear and repeated public and private commitments which the club simply asks him to honor and respect in view of the unprecedented advantages he has received from the club for seven years. », insists for its part the club, which speaks of a question “ in good faith and honesty “.