La Liga Wants Kylian Mbappe’s New Mega Contract Cancelled, Drags PSG to Administrative Court in France

La Liga Wants Kylian Mbappe’s New Mega Contract Cancelled, Drags PSG to Administrative Court in France

Chukwu Ikechukwu
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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  • La Liga is still at loggerheads with Paris Saint-Germain over the contract offered to France superstar Kylian Mbappe
  • The Spanish football body has dragged the French Ligue 1 champions to a Paris administrative court to cancel the deal signed by Mbappe
  • The 23-year-old signed a new lucrative deal with the French champions in May after months of discussions with Real Madrid over a potential transfer

Kylian Mbappe’s new mega-contract is still causing a rift between the Spanish Football league body and Paris Saint-Germain as La Liga has dragged the French champion to court.

The 23-year-old France forward was on the verge of joining Real Madrid this summer after agreeing to a verbal agreement with Los Blancos but did a turnaround and renewed his deal with PSG.

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Kylian Mbappe recently signed a 3-year contract extension with PSG to run until 2025. Photo by Masashi Hara
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La Liga has now accused PSG of falsifying balance sheets and voluntarily far-fetched projected budgets in order to retain Kylian Mbappe and have taken the matter to a Paris administrative court Daily Mail report.

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La Liga claims that PSG should not be able to finance the deal for Mbappe and has also lodged appeals against Ligue 1 and French football's financial watchdog DNCG.

Kylian Mbappe signed a new and improved deal with the Ligue 1 champions that will run until 2025 and it includes a signing bonus in the region of £100 million with a monthly salary of £4 million which doubles his current PSG pay.

La Liga president supports Barcelona’s move for Lewandowski

Meanwhile, Barcelona has been hailed for their shrewd business in the summer transfer market by La Liga president Javier Tebas.

Tebas hailed the addition of Robert Lewandowski to the Barcelona team and hopes the Poland forward has a good season with the Catalan giants Football Espana reports.

Barcelona signed Lewandowski on a 4-year-deal worth €50m from Bayern Munich after the 33-year-old expressed his desire to leave the Bundesliga champions this summer.

Mbappe scores as PSG cruise past Urawa in Japan

Earlier, Sports Brief reported Kylian Mbappe scored as Paris Saint-Germain made it two wins out of two on their Japanese tour with a 3-0 victory over J-League side Urawa Reds on Saturday.

Mbappe was the only PSG player retained in the starting line-up after Wednesday's 2-1 win over Kawasaki Frontale in Tokyo.

PSG manager Christophe Galtier decided to drop star forwards Lionel Messi and Neymar to the bench for the game against Urawa Reds.

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Chukwu Ikechukwu Godwin is a journalist with over 9 years of experience in the Nigerian media industry. He has worked both in Radio (Today FM, Rhythm FM, Wish FM) and Television (Silverbird TV) as a Sports Analyst..
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