After a long legal battle, Kylian Mbappé succeeded a few months ago in having Paris Saint-Germain ordered to pay him a substantial sum and to publish the ruling on its website for several weeks. However, PSG also secured a minor victory, as reported by L’Équipe this Monday. This involves €60,000 in compensation regarding the precautionary seizure of the Parisian club’s accounts. Paris had managed to have the seizure lifted and subsequently obtained this modest compensation; the 27-year-old Real Madrid and France forward was ordered by the Paris Court of Appeal to pay the €60,000.
“The club is incensed, believing it had ample financial capacity to meet any potential judgment against it. It maintains that the Mbappé camp sought these seizures solely for ‘media-related purposes.’ PSG succeeded in having them annulled as early as May.
“critical disruption of several departments”
However, the judges rejected the club’s claim for non-pecuniary damages (harm to reputation). PSG had argued that the precautionary seizures had ‘jeopardized the payment of salaries for the company’s 724 employees, payments to numerous suppliers, and the settlement of tax obligations (…), and furthermore caused critical disruption to several departments, particularly those handling finance, legal affairs, and human resources.’
The club also contended that these same seizures had ‘raised fears that it would be impossible to honor sporting debts, thereby creating a risk of disciplinary sanctions from FIFA—potentially including a ban on signing new players—precisely when the transfer window was set to open on June 1, 2025.’
The judges also refused to award damages to PSG for harm to its image and reputation; the club had sought a symbolic one euro on these grounds.” It is a minor financial victory, yet it is by no means insignificant. Notably, it somewhat undermines the Mbappé camp’s narrative that they handled everything perfectly in the face of an abusive PSG. Of course, the legal victory remains more significant and impactful. Still, this counts, and one hopes the matter can now be fully closed, without further appeals or statements leading nowhere. It is undoubtedly a chapter no one wishes to revisit.
