French soccer icon Kylian Mbappe the previous club battles PSG for millions

It seems to be an ideal match: the best soccer player in France agrees to the stars in his hometown club. And the conclusion was.

Kylian Mbapé was the attractiveness of the stars that the first France team, Paris Saint -Germain, planned to build for years to come. Their owners, an arm of the Qatari government, returned to Paris from Monaco in 2017 for about 200 million dollars, a record for a teenager, and at that time the second highest fee ever in football.

The goals were scored, the prizes were secured, MBAPé became one of the most famous athletes in the world, and the association was formed between the player and the club. Then the problem came.

MBAPé, who is now 26 years old, had dreamed of since childhood playing with Real Madrid in Spain – football – and his chance came in 2022 with the end of his contract. In the end, he remained in his position, but only after that Massive This included CAJOLING by President Emmanuel Macron from France and what the club claims the richest contract in European football.

But at the same speed that things fell in place, they started to collapse. MBAPé left Paris only two seasons, one year before his deal was widely understood. His step made a bitter and desperate legal conflict, as Mbabe accused his former club of harassment and demanded that he pay 55 million euros (about 61 million dollars) who says he owes. Paris Saint -Germain, in turn, refused to pay, saying that Mabei had an oral agreement, to abandon this money and leave on good conditions, with the team’s envoy and Qatar to global football, Nasser Al -Khalaai.

The dispute provides a rare public overview of the global football talent, which puts one of the world’s most athletes in the world against a small, but strong, but rich in the country of a Persian bay. Qatar has appeared over the past decade as one of the largest players in global sport, using its investments to raise its profile and host the 2022 World Cup.

At an extraordinary press conference on Thursday in Paris, MBAPé lawyers said that they had escalated their case, and submitted complaints in multiple places. They asked the court to partially freeze PSG bank accounts for money that their client believes is due and asked the French Football Association to prevent the team from playing in the Elite Champions League.

“The club is not above the law and the law alongside the player,” said Thomas Clay, a Mbappe lawyer.

Paris Saint -Germain refused to claim that it is “the latest world parallel to fictional story.”

Sting

After the PSG player believed that he would build his team around him, he proved the design of mbapé in Paris short -term. The temptation of Madrid, the strength of childhood dreams, has proven too much to resist it.

Within a year of re -signing with PSG, MBAPPé informed the team that he wanted to leave a free agent, and refused to exercise the option to stay in a third season. It was especially difficult for the fans, because when MBAPE agreed in 2022 to stay with the team, he was wearing a shirt with 2025 on his back to indicate the year in which the option passed. Many assumed that this means that he was committing to the team for three years.

The departure of mbapé in 2024 Paris Saint -Germain was deprived not only of the talent of generations, but also the opportunity for a decrease in 180 million euros, which he originally paid his former team to bring him to Paris in 2017.

The team tried to reach a deal with mbapé. They asked him to think about two options, both allowing him to leave, but also prevent the team from losing a lot of money.

Under the first, mbapé will sign an extension of the contract that included a guaranteed sale in the event that another club wants to play-clearly, Real Madrid-pay nine numbers fees; The second participated in the commitment to waive tens of millions of euros in salaries and bonuses, which amount to 55 million euros, to leave as a free agent on good conditions.

The contracts were set, but nothing has been signed, and PSG described the presentation of the two options as the “gentlemen agreement” between mbapé and Al-Khelaifi.

The deal quickly moved to a dispute. Mbapé accused Paris Saint -Germain of harassment after he announced that he wanted to leave, including leaving him at home to take a tour before the season. Paris Saint -Germain was interrogated MBAPINA because the message he sent in the end to the club and rejected the option of a third season that was dated in July 2022, just weeks after delivering the team.

French football authorities called for the settlement of the conflict. This did not happen.

Permanent battle

In a hotel conference hall on the tenth floor on Thursday, the Eiffel Tower, which is waving the horizon behind them, set four lawyers for MBAPIN, set a set of cases they brought in recent days, before sports ruling bodies as well as civil and criminal courts, after waiting for Paris Saint -Germain to engage for a year.

His lawyers said that Mbappe was tired of waiting for the money that he felt owed and inaccurate stories about the epic because of his contract. Interpretation, MBAPé’s lawyer for a long time, Delphine Verheyden, was simple: MBAPE had a contract and did not honor PSG.

She and the other lawyers also described how club officials pressed mbapé – threatening him with his seats for a season and inflicting his reputation – in his efforts to make him sign a modification to his contract, which would help the club to save money, but also face the event he left.

Paris Saint -Germain condemned the press conference, accusing mbapé of rejecting a “friendly solution” and refused to transfer the case to the Labor Court. A mbapé lawyer reported that such cases usually take years to solve them.

MBAPé attorneys said he was facing Paris Saint -Germain not only to achieve personal gains but also to help the lesser -well -known players who can find themselves in the same position. They added that his battle, apparently without a paradox, was on behalf of the French people, who said that he would benefit from tens of millions of euros in the taxes that he and the club will pay in the event of resolving the conflict in his favor.

“If we want to fear the club’s reaction that the club is strong, we will never make it.” “The club will not be happy and will not be happy, and this is certain.”

The epic also emphasizes how reliance on personal relationships still dominates the football industry. According to the documents reviewed by the New York Times, MBAPE and its advisers spoke and set a book approved on the amendment. But in the end, none of them was signed.

On charge of bad bruises by SAGA, PSG decided not to repeat its strategy of building its team about a unique character, regardless of its talent or fame.

This new position – a departure from the MBAPé system to the first days of the Qatari ownership that started in 2011 – appears to serve it well. The club won the performance of the performance as a group of its parts, and it is in a good position to achieve the dreams of its owners in winning the Champions League, the largest award in European football, after it was conveniently defeating the English language in the first quarter -final in two games on Wednesday evening.

You may have an embarrassing meeting with mbapé in the competition to wait. His new team, Real Madrid, was defeated by a 3-0 shock to Arsenal-based in the first match in the quarter-finals the night before, leaving it in need of a great reflection when they meet again next week.