Paris Saint-Germain have been ordered by a French labour court to pay former star forward Kylian Mbappé €60 million (£52.5m) in unpaid salary and bonuses, bringing a significant development in a bitter and prolonged legal dispute between the club and the player, MySportDab Reports.
The ruling follows a hearing in November after Mbappé, now with Real Madrid, sought a total of €263 million in damages from PSG, citing unpaid wages, contract breaches and alleged ill-treatment.
PSG, in turn, had countersued the France captain for €240 million, arguing the club suffered financial losses due to his refusal to extend his contract or accept a lucrative move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal in 2023.
While the court dismissed the majority of Mbappé’s claims, it found that PSG had failed to pay three months of salary between April and June 2024, along with an ethics bonus and a signing bonus stipulated in his contract.
Those sums amounted to €60 million, which the court ruled must be paid by the European champions.
“We are satisfied with this ruling. This is what you could expect when salaries went unpaid,” Mbappé’s lawyer, Frederique Cassereau, said after the decision.
In a statement, the player’s legal team added that the judgement reaffirmed a fundamental principle: labour law applies equally within professional football.
The dispute stems from Mbappé’s decision not to renew his contract and his rejection of a reported €300 million transfer to Al-Hilal.
PSG accused the forward of acting disloyally and claimed he had agreed to forgo certain payments to protect the club’s finances, a claim his representatives strongly denied.
Mbappé was sidelined at the start of the 2023–24 season before being reinstated. He eventually left PSG in the summer of 2024 on a free transfer to Real Madrid.
During seven seasons in Paris, Mbappé won 15 trophies and became PSG’s all-time leading scorer with 256 goals in 308 appearances, cementing his status as one of the club’s greatest-ever players.
