Mbappé’s decision to snub Real Madrid could end up in court
Mbappé rejected a move to Real Madrid prompting Tebas, who had hoped La Liga would land football’s brightest young star, to say it was “an insult to football”
The row over Kylian Mbappé’s decision to stay at Paris Saint-Germain has become so bitter that the French league president has warned of possible legal action against his Spanish counterpart Javier Tebas.
Mbappé rejected a move to Real Madrid prompting Tebas, who had hoped La Liga would land football’s brightest young star, to say it was “an insult to football” that oil money — PSG is owned by Qatar — had triumphed.
Vincent Labrune has written to Aleksander Ceferin, the Uefa president, to complain about Tebas — who is also a Uefa executive committee member. Labrune’s letter says: “We are going to study legal action that we could initiate in the face of Tebas’ behaviour which has been going on for too long and which is causing obvious damage to our championship.
“ Tebas’ repeated denigrating statements constitute acts of unfair competition by La Liga. They are all the more detrimental as they discredit a flagship club of our championship and that they are directly aimed at disrupting the relationship of trust with our economic partners, precisely at a time when we are carrying out a plan of very ambitious development.”
Labrune’s letter points out no French clubs took part in the “dissident Super League”, adding: “Obviously, it is not the same for La Liga, whose most powerful clubs wanted to free themselves from the control of Uefa and were the driving forces”.
