La Liga's legal challenge over Mbappe's PSG contract shot down
FT Desk
- 19 Aug 2022 16:35 BST
- 3 min read
La Liga has suffered another setback in its quest to overturn the contract Kylian Mbappe signed with Paris Saint-Germain at the start of the summer.
The Administrative Court of Paris dismissed La Liga's plea to have the deal terminated, according to reports in France.
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The Spanish top flight's legal team contends that PSG broke Financial Fair Play rules upon signing the forward to an extension, worth a reported €250 million over three years, after widespread speculation that he was set to join Real Madrid.
According to La Liga, its French counterpart LFP should not have approved the deal as it was based on "falsified balance sheets" and "willingly far-fetched projected budgets" which made such a large package possible.
LaLiga have lost three legal cases challenging Kylian Mbappe's PSG's contract renewal. LaLiga argue LFP shouldn't allow it to stand. Petitions against the French league to the Minister of Sport, the DNCG (regulating body) and a Paris-based commercial court have been dismissed.
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But this is the league's third such legal setback, after the court ruled that there was no indication of the rules having been broken.
La Liga has made separate appeals to the French Sports Ministry, the LFP and the Paris court, all of which have thrown out their case.
What have La Liga said about PSG's dealings?
The body's president, Javier Tebas, has been withering about the deal Mbappe signed instead of moving to Madrid.
"What PSG are going to do by renewing Mbappe with large amounts of money (who knows where and how they pay them) after making losses of €700m in recent seasons and having more than €600m in salary, is an insult to football," the Liga boss fired earlier this summer.
"[PSG president Nasser] Al-Khelaifi is as dangerous as the Super League"
"With PSG in the middle, I don't think what you are saying is very much.
"PSG are going to end this year with €650m in wages, with €300m euros in losses, and they're still going to make a multi-million euro offer to Mbappe?
"If we are getting our act together in Europe with the state clubs and there is an important reform in UEFA in that sense, this cannot be.
"If Real Madrid, which is the best managed team during the pandemic, which has not lost money during the pandemic, which has significant reserves, which is possibly and I hope will be European champion, it can't be the case that a team that has lost €300m with a wage bill of €600m that it doesn't generate by any chance, can take away a player of that level, it can't be."
