PSG threatened with LAW SUIT by players' union for Mbappe treatment

Tom Weber

• Updated: 22 Jul 2023 16:29 BST
• 4 min read

The UNFP, the French players' union, has published a scathing tirade against Paris Saint-Germain for their treatment of Kylian Mbappe.

The 24-year-old has essentially been exiled from PSG's squad and transfer listed after refusing to change his stance on a contract extension with the French giants. As things stand, Mbappe will be a free agent next summer.

In a letter alleged to have been sent to Mbappe, PSG wrote that his decision "did not fail to cause us enormous damage, going contrary to the spirit of our discussions and moreover announcing to the market that you would be free on June 30, 2024, thus aggravating the damage caused to the club." Only leaving now or signing an extension will "avoid a lasting paralysis of the club caused by your recent actions."

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Now, the French players' union has hit back at the Parisians.

What did the UNFP write?

"Players are deemed 'undesirable'...despite respecting the contracts signed in good and due form...And a good dozen employees at Paris Saint-Germain are concerned, or even more if we add the first professional contracts!"

"Timothée Pembélé, Colin Dagba, Ismaël Gharbi, Abdou Diallo, Layvin Kurzawa, Leandro Paredes, Georginio Wijnaldum, Keylor Navas, Édouard Michut, still others (?) and Kylian Mbappé, same fight! For the respect, in France, of the signed contracts!"

"Nasser [Al-Khelaifi] has no say in the matter. Dear president, they are still to this day under contract with PSG...The UNFP has constantly denounced this practice which, with the dismissal of the captain of the French team, will perhaps encourage...sports and political bodies to finally take up the case, unless, in France, employees can be prevented from exercising their professional activity with complete impunity."

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"We need to remember here that the UNFP is still waiting for the Minister of Sports to meet with us to discuss this subject and that last November a delegation from our union...had been expelled by the police from the Ministry of Sports for having had the audacity to come and ask to speak...about moral harassment in French professional football."

"As of September 1, under Article 507 of the Charter, clubs will be required to reinstate all players who have been sidelined from the professional group. All players. Those they want to keep, those who want to leave for free, all those with whom they have signed contracts, sometimes even extension clauses."

"Until then, these players, all these players, must benefit from the same working conditions as the rest of the professional workforce. It nevertheless seems useful to the UNFP to remind managers that exerting pressure on an employee – via the deterioration of his working conditions, for example – to force him to leave or to accept what the employer wants constitutes moral harassment, which French law strongly condemns."

"So, yes, the UNFP reserves the right to take all civil and criminal proceedings against clubs that behave in this way..."