France: Mbappé freezes PSG’s accounts as salary dispute escalates

In sport, legal battle has stated between a player and a football club. Soccer player Kylian Mbappé's legal team said several of Paris Saint-Germain's(PSG) accounts had been frozen on Thursday as it appealed to the French sports minister and UEFA for his former club to pay him 55 million euros ($61.25 million) in unpaid wages. "We're going to go on the attack," Delphine Verheyden, Mbappé's lawyer, told a press conference.
The French League (LFP) ordered PSG to pay the player last year but the French Football Federation ruled that Mbappé's request was inadmissible because of an ongoing procedure in a civil court. Mbappé's legal team, however, have turned to a Paris court to freeze 55 million euros in PSG's accounts.In January last year, Mbappé said he had made an agreement with PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi which would "protect all parties and preserve the club's serenity for the challenges ahead".
Mbappé became PSG's all-time top scorer during his seven-year stay in the capital but the 26-year-old joined Real Madrid as a free agent last year. PSG had also said that Mbappé had refused an offer from the LFP to mediate on the issue.Another lawyer, Pierre-Olivier Sur, said they had filed a complaint for harassment, claiming PSG put pressure on Mbappé to extend his contract in 2023, one year before it ended.
As per France 24 report, the Ligue 1 champions, however, argue that Mbappé's contract was "legally amended" and that the forward had reneged on commitments when he left the Paris club to join Real Madrid. "The case is only indirectly linked with us in terms of possible arrears of payment," a spokesperson for European soccer's governing body UEFA told Reuters on Thursday. "If a final decision is taken by the French authorities and confirms that there are indeed arrears ... the club would then have to pay the arrears on time or risk non-compliance with financial fair play."