France captain Kylian Mbappé is seeking €263m (£231.5m) from former club Paris Saint-Germain, while PSG are counter-claiming €240m (£211m) from the forward as their long-running dispute reached a Paris labour court on Monday.
The 26-year-old Real Madrid striker is demanding damages, including €55m (£46.3m) in unpaid wages, over an alleged breach of contract and what he describes as ill-treatment during his final season in Paris.
PSG, meanwhile, argue they are owed compensation for the collapse of Mbappé’s proposed €300m transfer to Saudi club Al-Hilal in 2023. Mbappé rejected the move, instead joining Real Madrid on a free transfer the following summer.
The dispute dates back to July 2023 when Mbappé informed PSG he would not extend his contract. The club responded by excluding him from their pre-season tour of Asia and leaving him out of their opening league fixture—actions Mbappé believes were punitive.
PSG maintain his temporary exclusion followed an agreement that he would forgo certain end-of-contract payments to help the club’s financial position—an assertion Mbappé’s representatives have dismissed as “fantasy”.
After Monday’s hearing, PSG said they were seeking recognition of “significant damages” caused by what they called Mbappé’s “serious breaches of contractual commitments”, accusing him of acting “disloyally” by withholding his decision not to renew for 11 months.
They also rejected claims of harassment, insisting Mbappé “benefited from exceptional conditions” during his seven years at the club, where he scored 256 goals in 308 matches and won 15 trophies between 2017 and 2024.
Mbappé’s original claim for unpaid wages went through football authorities before progressing to the courts, with both sides now locked in a legal battle of unprecedented financial scale.
