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PSG ordered to pay Kylian Mbappe €61m after legal battle
Cameron Smith
- Updated: 16 Dec 2025 12:58 GMT
- 5 min read
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Kylian Mbappe has officially won his legal battle against Paris Saint-Germain, with his former club ordered to pay him a whopping €61 million.
The France international, who spent seven years at the Parc des Princes before completing a Bosman move to Real Madrid in 2024, has been embroiled in a battle over unpaid wages and bonuses for the past 12 months and his lawyers finally claimed victory on 16 December.
Current ETV
Kylian Mbappé
F (C)
Real Madrid
Kylian Mbappé
F (C)
Real Madrid
ETV Range
€88.9M - €108.6M
Mbappe initially requested to receive €55m from PSG in unpaid wages. After this claim was unsuccessful, his legal team sued Luis Enrique’s side for €263m in total in response to a contract disagreement and alleged ill-treatment by the Ligue 1 club. PSG duly responded with a counter claim against the 26-year-old, seeking for roughly €440m in damages.
After a hearing before the Paris Industrial Tribunal, Mbappe was the unanimous winner and PSG have been ordered to pay the €55m in unpaid wages, in addition to accrued vacation pay, as per RMC Sport.
This amounts to a total of €61m and although PSG have the ability to appeal the decision, their claims were dismissed by the court, who ruled in Mbappe’s favour.
Why did Kylian Mbappe sue PSG?
The trouble dates back to the summer of 2022, when Mbappe signed a new contract with PSG. Nasser Al-Khelaifi paraded the player with a shirt with 2025 emblazoned on the back, as the French club framed the agreement as a three-year deal. In fact, in an important piece of context, the striker only signed for two years plus the option of an additional one.
Two months later, a letter landed on Al-Khelaifi’s desk from Mbappe that indicated he had no intention of triggering that option. Chaos ensued.
In the summer of 2023, Mbappe was put on the transfer market and frozen out of PSG first-team training. Now comes the crux. PSG claim that as Mbappe was reintegrated into the team – it took him only 11 minutes to score after being frozen out – he agreed to forego bonus payments related to loyalty and images worth €55m.
There is, however, little evidence of this. PSG claim that a verbal agreement was struck between Mbappe and Al-Khelaifi in a private meeting.
The closest there is to any confirmation that a deal was actually struck came from comments that the striker made in the mixed zone following the Trophee des Champions clash with Toulouse.
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Kylian Mbappé
F (C)
Real Madrid
Kylian Mbappé
F (C)
Real Madrid
He said: “The agreement I reached with the president last summer protects all the parties, regardless of my decision.”
By the end of the season, Mbappe was open about his agreement with Real Madrid, which was a deal long in the making and was formally concluded in July 2024. His exit from PSG, though, was only the start of a prolonged saga that has resulted in the Frenchman’s legal win.
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