The Spanish Football League (La Liga) will file a request to “terminate (Kylian) Mbappe’s contract” and intend to sue Paris Saint-Germain even before European authorities, her lawyer in Paris said.
Juan Branco explained that the “entry point” to the “graded” measures against Saint Germain would be “the legality of Mbappé’s contract”, adding: “The French Football Federation should never have ratified the validity of this contract.”
He believes that “the National Directorate of Control and Administration (+DNCG) should have twice, on June 25, 2021, noted the violation committed by Paris Saint-Germain of the rules of financial fair play at the national level, as well as the European one.”
Mbappé was expected to join Real Madrid this summer after his contract with Saint-Germain expired, but he decided, against his repeated wishes, to stay at the French capital club amid talk of his temptation. with a fictitious contract with the Qatari administration of Saint Germain.
The move has angered Real Madrid and the Spanish League, who have questioned Saint Germain’s adherence to fair play rules enforced by the European Union (UEFA), with even Royal Club president Florentino Pérez on Thursday accusing Mbappé of submitting to “political and economic pressures” from to extend his contract.
At a press conference held Friday at a Paris hotel, the La Liga club’s lawyer said he intended to petition “to terminate Mbappe’s contract with Sports Minister” Amelie Odea-Caster, and then possibly file an “appeal with the French Football Federation in order to contact the National Directorate of Control and Administration. “To conduct an audit” of Saint Germain’s accounts.
Finally, if the previous steps had not worked, he confirmed that he wanted to take the case to the Administrative Court of Paris.
If these national appeals fail, Branco said he would go to the European courts “to ask the European Commission to intervene to enforce the rules”, or even initiate “thereafter a formal bidding procedure,” and finally, at the end of the process Maybe the case goes to the European Court.
He continued: “It is clear to everyone that Paris Saint-Germain is acting outside the rules, including fraudulent manoeuvres,” noting that the Spanish League has sued Manchester City, an English club owned by Emirates, similar to Saint-Germain , owned by Qatar.
He explained that the motivation for these lawsuits was the desire of the association to revise the rules for a more fair and transparent football financial system.
La Liga accuses Saint Germain of “continuing to violate existing financial fair play rules” and of creating a state of imbalance in sporting and economic competition.
La Liga President Javier Tebas is one of the most outspoken critics of state-backed clubs.
