French court orders PSG to pay Mbappe A$106 million
Kylian Mbappe and PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi in 2022, before player and club separated. -AP
A Paris labour court has ordered Paris St Germain to pay Kylian Mbappe 60 million euros ($A106 million) in unpaid salary and bonuses, bringing a partial end to one of the most acrimonious disputes in French football.
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The ruling followed months of legal wrangling after the France striker took PSG to court over earnings he said were withheld for April, May and June 2024, shortly before he left the Ligue 1 club to join Real Madrid on a free transfer.
"We are satisfied with the ruling. This is what you could expect when salaries went unpaid," Mbappe's lawyer Frederique Cassereau told reporters.
The court found that PSG had failed to pay three months of Mbappe's salary, an ethics bonus and a signing bonus due under his employment contract.
Those sums were recognised as due by two decisions of the French Professional Football League (LFP) in September and October 2024, and the judges said PSG had not produced any written agreement showing Mbappe had waived his entitlement.
The judges rejected PSG's arguments that Mbappe should forfeit his unpaid wages entirely, but also dismissed several of the player's additional claims, including allegations of concealed work, moral harassment and breach of the employer's duty of safety.
PSG had argued that Mbappe acted disloyally by concealing for nearly a year his intention not to renew his contract, preventing the club from securing a transfer fee.
