Sports
Mbappe owned PSG 55mn euros – Report
Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe moved closer in receiving the 55 million euros ($61 million) in unpaid wages and bonuses he owned his former club Paris Saint-Germain.
The player’s lawyers, Thursday announced that the sum will be seized from PSG’s accounts and protectively frozen while the case is heard.
The Judicial Court of Paris has been given the green light for the funds to be taken from the Qatari-owned club. A legal hearing in the increasingly bitter dispute is scheduled for May 26.
“This is just an employee against a bad payer,” one of Mbappe’s lawyers, Delphine Verheyden, said. “Kylian Mbappe is determined to enforce his rights, not just for himself but for all the other players” who believe they have been wronged by their clubs.
The lawyers also announced that Mbappe would take his case to the labour court as part of a wider complaint from the French players’ union (UNFP).
The union lodged a complaint with the labour court a year ago claiming players were being sidelined at their clubs, something Mbappe believes he was the victim of at PSG. A PSG representative, speaking anonymously, told AFP it had “no problem” in fighting the case at the labour court and said Mbappe “is not going to win”.
Mbappe joined Real Madrid in June 2024 after seven years at PSG during which he scored 246 goals in 269 games. After a shaky start in Madrid, he has hit a run of form, scoring 22 goals in La Liga and seven times in the Champions League so far this season.
ASUU begins strike over unpaid allowances
Natasha disowns cloned audio, false video in circulation
Tunde Bakare visits Tinubu in Lagos
Harassment: Courts summon Akpabio, Nwaebonyi over alleged defamation, Natasha’s rights violations
Son emerges top target for Saudi Arabia
Benue LG boss, Oche hails court victory, calls for unity in Ado LGA
Senator Natasha phone number cloned in alleged cyber impersonation scheme
Sallah: FRSC vows tough sanctions against traffic offenders nationwide
FCT natives condemn resettlement policy, seek better alternatives
Eid-el-Fitr: NSCDC deploys 28,000 tactical operatives nationwide for security
Breaking: Kwankwaso no longer attractive in Kano, minister rejects ex-gov’s defection
Breaking: VeryDarkMan regains freedom
Matawalle: The inertia of the saddest minds, by Lawal Umar Maradun, Ph.D.
VeryDarkMan breaks silence after release
Bauchi lawmaker trains, empowers 125 youths on agriculture
NIMC announces new NIN verification service
NCoS unveils faces of fleeing inmates, places N5m cash reward for info
‘Big incentive to indigenous producers,’ Ndume backs Tinubu’s ban on foreign goods
Erosion/Landslide: Imo community protest sitting of borrow pit in Amazi, sends SOS Uzodinma
Man Utd eye new goalkeeper
We didn’t authorize petition against Mele Kyari, group tells AGF, EFCC
Breaking: Nationwide strike looms as ASUU issues 21-day notice
Inuwa Yahaya condoles with RFI over loss of Kabir Yusuf
Guardiola issues Erling Haaland fitness update ahead of Wolves
-
Politics2 days agoPeter Obi visits Niger, donates ₦20m to flood victims
-
National News1 day ago“Secure custodial facilities or face consequences” — CGC Nwakuche warns corrections commanders
-
Crime and Law1 day agoBreaking: Army Chief relocates to Benue over incessant killings
-
Politics2 days agoSack some ministers, security chiefs – Orji Kalu tells Tinubu
-
National News1 day agoFG shifts USSD charges to airtime as banks lose right to deduct from customers
-
Education2 days agoDrama as parent sends thugs after vice principal for seizing son’s phone during WAEC
-
National News2 days agoForum calls on Tinubu’s loyalist to defect to PDP
-
Special Feature2 days agoHow Hope Uzodimma building bridges of unity between Igbo and Yoruba in Lagos, by Henry Ikoh