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Paris Saint-Germain will refuse to comply with an order by the league to pay Kylian Mbappé 55 million euros ($59.5 million) in back pay, a source close to the case told AFP on Friday.
A French league committee has attempted to mediate in the increasingly bitter row between Real Madrid forward Mbappe and the club he left this year.
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Mbappe has demanded the figure which he says is made up of the final three months of his salary plus several bonuses.
But Qatar-owned PSG argue that the 25-year-old had agreed to waive the sum in August 2023.
In other news, Kylian Mbappé has vowed to take legal action for libel over the Swedish rape investigation which his name was linked to as his lawyer revealed on Friday.
The France captain, however, is “at ease” because “he has done nothing wrong”, lawyer Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard said.
A Swedish prosecutor said Tuesday that a rape investigation had been opened without mentioning Mbappé, following media reports that the Real Madrid and France star was the suspect following a visit with friends to Stockholm.
Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen, and public broadcaster SVT all reported that 25-year-old Mbappé was the target of the investigation, following his two-day visit to the Nordic capital last week.
Mbappé’s lawyer Canu-Bernard said the player was “not aware of the extent of the media frenzy, but is completely calm and does not understand what he could be accused of”.
“He is stunned to hear that it could concern him. He preferred to go to training and asked my office not to leave things as they are because it is impossible to let yourself be slandered and defamed in this way.
“This is the reason why we are going to file a complaint for libel.”
The lawyer said she could neither confirm nor deny claims in Swedish media that Mbappé was the suspect.
“We read the press,” Canu-Bernard said. “The Stockholm prosecutor’s office issued a statement, but it does not allow us to know whether Kylian Mbappé is the target.
“I therefore have no information allowing me to confirm whether this is indeed a complaint filed against him.”
