PSG and former star striker Mbappé begin fight over unpaid wages

A four-person panel on Tuesday started its review of Paris Saint-Germain's multimillion euro wages stand-off with former striker Kylian Mbappé who left the French champions for Real Madrid last summer.

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) – which runs the top two divisions in France – ordered PSG in September to pay Mbappé 55 million euros in salary and bonuses he claimed he was owed when he quit the French capital for one of the world's most prestigious clubs.

PSG appealed against the LFP's verdict and after Mbappé refused the LFP's offer to act as a mediator between the sides, another committee was set up to decide the row.

Two members from the UNFP – the French national players' union – as well as a magistrate and the committee's president, will confirm or overturn the LFP's order after hearings that are expected to last until Friday.

Mbappé, 25, joined PSG in July 2017 and seemed poised to join Madrid during the summer of 2022 as a free agent.

But the French President Emmanuel Macron encouraged him to stay at PSG and Mbappé stunned the Madrid hierarchy by signing a two-year deal in May 2022 with the option of a third year.

"I'm going to remain in my hometown and do what I like doing ... playing football and winning more trophies," said Mbappé as his contract extension was announced to a delirious horde of PSG fans before the game against Metz at the Parc des Princes.

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