Mbappe-PSG salary row faces hearing as France captain cited in 'rape' report

Kylian Mbappes dispute with former club Paris SaintGermain over claims he is owed 55 million euros 60m in unpaid wages and bonuses will go before a French league committee later on Tuesday The hearing will take place a day after a newspaper report in Sweden claimed Mbappe the captain of the French national team was being investigated for rape by Swedish police following a visit to Stockholm After Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said that an alleged rape had been reported to police but did not reveal who was accused another publication Expressen said 25yearold Mbappe was the suspect Kylian Mbappes entourage when contacted by AFP said it had no knowledge of a legal complaint made against him The player himself claimed in a post on X that the report was fake news and suggested there was a link between the Aftonbladet story and his hearing before the French league committee in his bitter row with PSG The French league LFP ordered PSG in September to pay Mbappe 55 million euros in wages and bonuses he claimed he was owed at the time of his departure for Real Madrid at the end of last season The committee which will notably be made up of two members of the French national players union a magistrate and an independent president can confirm or overturn the LFPs orderAlso Read French evolutionThe case was referred to the committee after Mbappe refused the LFPs offer to act as a mediator between the France captain and PSG The LFP told PSG to pay the money and gave them a week to do so but the club appealed that order Suggesting there was a link between the report in Sweden and the hearing Mbappe wrote on X FAKE NEWS Its becoming so predictable on the eve of the hearing as if by chance A source close to the French champions said the club would ignore his comment and maintain their class and dignity If the committee overturns the LFPs original decision it would then have several possibilities including providing a whole new ruling on the dispute or sending it back to a legal committee It is expected to take several days before publishing its conclusions The origin of the dispute can be traced back to an agreement in August 2023 when the player was frozen out of the PSG squad for refusing to extend his contract An extension would have allowed PSG to receive a transfer fee if Mbappe then departed this year but instead he left for nothing under freedom of contract and signed for Real Under the agreement Mbappe said he would waive 55 million euros in various bonuses if he departed for free at the end of last season But the validity of the agreement which Mbappe himself alluded to publicly to journalists in January is contested by the players entourage They describe it as a hidden agreement The sum Mbappe is claiming he is owed is comprised of the last third of a signingon fee of 36 million euros gross which he was supposed to receive in February as well as his last three months salary from last season and an ethics bonus covering the same periodWith agency inputs