French players’ union statement on Mbappe’s situation

After being left out of the tour of Japan, Mbappé’s situation at PSG has not left anyone indifferent. If he himself has already reacted to this decision of the club to leave him out of the group, now so has the UNFP, which recalls that all players with contracts have to be treated equally.

They further recall that: “The UNFP reserves the right to take all civil and criminal actions against clubs that behave in this way…”

The full UNFP statement on Mbappé’s situation.

“Players considered ‘undesirable’ or that clubs want to see leave at all costs, despite respecting the contracts signed in good and due form. Contracts are free of fixed duration by mutual agreement, therefore, between an employer and a worker.

And a good dozen Paris Saint-Germain employees are worried, or even more so if we add the first professional contracts!

Like this young international, a real hope for French football, marginalized since the resumption of training and who today knows nothing about his future, but who received a different call to the rest of the professional team to be this … Saturday in the concentration in different conditions to those of the set directed by Luis Enrique. This young player, who is therefore not in Japan, you all recognized, is… Édouard Michut, who wears the blue shirt of the U-20.

Édouard Michut and Kylian MBappé, same fight!
Timothée Pembélé, Colin Dagba, Ismaël Gharbi, Abdou Diallo, Layvin Kurzawa, Leandro Paredes, Georginio Wijnaldum, Keylor Navas, Édouard Michut, others (?) and Kylian MBappé, same fight!

For the respect, in France, of the contracts signed!
For UNFP, there is no difference. There never will be. So yes, Paris Saint-Germain and the other clubs in France that act in the same way in a commercial context now more or less respect the Football Charter and its Article 507, which the Parisian president must not have known since he declared in essence that “players who are not in Japan are not part of the club!”

Nasser has nothing to say in the matter, dear president, they are still under contract with PSG today… In a hurry, are they not part of the plans of the coach, who, being the top scorer in the history of the Parisian club, the best player in the world, could pass a bit for a fallacious argument?

A little bit anyway, right? Since lofts have polluted French football, the UNFP has constantly denounced this practice which, with the dismissal of the captain of the French national team, perhaps encourages, perhaps, because it takes courage to attack PSG, Qatar and the rest…, the sports and political bodies to finally take up the case, unless, in France, employees can be prevented from exercising their professional activity with total impunity.

“Finally”, yes! Because do we need to remember here that the UNFP is still waiting for the Minister of Sports to design to meet with us to discuss this issue and that last November a delegation from our union, headed by Philippe Piat and David Terrier, its president and vice-president, had been expelled by the police from the Ministry of Sports for having had the audacity to come and ask to speak to Amélie Oudéa-Castéra about moral harassment in French professional football?

A little bit anyway, right? Since lofts have polluted French football, the UNFP has constantly denounced this practice which, with the dismissal of the captain of the French national team, perhaps encourages, perhaps, because it takes courage to attack PSG, Qatar and the rest…, the sports and political bodies to finally take up the case, unless, in France, employees can be prevented from exercising their professional activity with total impunity.

“Finally”, yes! Because do we need to remember here that the UNFP is still waiting for the Minister of Sports to deign to meet with us to discuss this issue and that last November a delegation from our union, headed by Philippe Piat and David Terrier, its president and vice-president, had been expelled by the police from the Ministry of Sports for having had the audacity to come and ask to speak to Amélie Oudéa-Castéra about moral harassment in French professional football? …