{"id":27849,"date":"2025-11-18T03:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27849"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:04:05","slug":"mbappe-psg-face-off-in-multi-million-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27849","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe, PSG face off in multi-million lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The bitter dispute between Kylian Mbappe and his former club Paris Saint-Germain reached the French labour court on Monday for a tense hearing in which the France captain claimed 263 million euros ($304m) and the club responded by demanding he pay them 440m euros.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides offered a long shopping list of grievances with price tags attached.<\/p>\n<p>PSG said they are basing their figure in part on a botched 300m-euro transfer to Saudi club Al Hilal which Mbappe refused in June 2023, and its aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe left for Real Madrid on a free transfer when his contract expired the following summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are indeed claiming 440 million euros,&#8221; Renaud Semerdjian, one of the seven lawyers representing the PSG, told AFP after the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Semerdjian said the figure included lost transfer revenue, compensation for damage to the club&#8217;s image and for what the club said was a breach of an agreement they made with Mbappe after he refused to move to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe, absent on Monday but represented by four lawyers, says he made no agreement in 2023 to waive any payment from the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old striker initially filed a complaint in June over the way he was treated by PSG at the start of the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe argues that he was sidelined by the Qatari-owned club and made to train with players the club were trying to offload after refusing to agree a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>It is a widespread practice that in France prompted the players&#8217; union to lodge a complaint last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe was not invited to take part in PSG&#8217;s 2023 pre-season tour of Asia and missed the first game of that season but was later recalled to the team after holding talks with the club.<\/p>\n<p>He is also claiming the Parisian club are applying the wrong French legal classification to his contract.<\/p>\n<p>After seven seasons with PSG he joined Real Madrid where he earns a reported annual salary of 30m euros.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 256 goals in 308 games for PSG but the club won the Champions League for the first time last season following the striker&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal will take several weeks to reach a decision which is expected on December 16.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bitter dispute between Kylian Mbappe and his former club Paris Saint-Germain reached the French labour court on Monday for a tense hearing in which the France captain claimed 263 million euros ($304m) and the club responded by demanding he pay them 440m euros. Both sides offered a long shopping list of grievances with price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}