Mbappé achieves a “precautionary” embargo of 55 million euros to the PSG

PARIS.- THE FOOTBALL STAR Kylian Mbappé He achieved an embargo with a “precautionary” character of 55 million euros (61.28 million dollars) to Paris Saint-Germain in unpaid wages and premiums that claims to their old club, their lawyers announced on Thursday.

Mbappé, who left the PSG In 2024, he requests the payment of the last three months of salary of his employment contract, as well as the signing and ethics premiums.

On Wednesday, the Execution Judge of the Judicial Court of Paris authorized that a precautionary embargo of the club’s accounts at the request of the player, who also filed a complaint against X for “public injuries.”

His lawyers Delphine Verheyden, Frédérique Casserau, Thomas Clay and Pierre-Loivier Sur announced that the current striker of the real Madrid He will go to the Labor Court and will join a more global complaint of the French players union (UNFP) against professional clubs “for moral harassment.”

UNFP filed a complaint a year ago for harassment related to “the practice of ‘loft'”, that is, the exclusion of players, of which Mbappé considers having been a victim in the PSG.

The PSG “will go to the Labor Court without problem,” a source from the club’s management responded to the AFP, stating that Mbappé “will not win.”

The conflict between the star and the PSG was born by an agreement reached in August 2023 between both parties.

Mbappé was separated from the first Parisian team for having rejected renew with the club. That renewal would have allowed the PSG to receive money for an eventual transfer, while Mbappé arrived at zero cost at Real Madrid as a free player at the end of the 2023-2024 season.

Under that agreement, the player promised to resign 55 million euros in various premiums if he was going free at the end of the course.

First examination in May

But the validity of that agreement, that the player himself had publicly evoked before the press in January, is denied by the star’s legal team.

The player claims the payment of 55 million euros that correspond to the last third of a premium to sign (36 million gross euros), the last three monthly payments, as well as a premium of ethics of those three months.

In September, the Legal Commission of the Professional Football League (LFP) and then in October the Joint Joint Appeal Commission of the LFP had urged the PSG to pay these sums.

The club refused to pay and led the LFP to the Judicial Court of Paris to mediate in these first two decisions.

Due to this lawsuit, the LFP discipline commission and then the Higher Appeal Commission of the French Football Federation (FFF) declared themselves incompetent to resolve the appeal, first in December and then in February.

An orientation hearing in the Judicial Court of Paris, that is, a first examination of the case, was set on May 26, before holding a first hearing on the fund of the file that must take place within several months.