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The French National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) has slammed Paris Saint-Germain after they excluded Ligue 1 champions Kylian Mbappe from their preliminary tour of Asia as the showdown between the striker and the club continues.
The 24-year-old France captain has been put up for sale by Paris Saint-Germain, according to media reports, after relations soured between the two parties last month.
Mbappe previously said he would not renew his contract, which expires at the end of next season, meaning he could leave for free in June 2024.
But PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said they would not let Mbappe, the top scorer in the French Premier League for the past five seasons, go for free.
“These players – all of them – must enjoy the same working conditions as the rest of the professional workforce,” the FNF, the main union for professional footballers in France, said in a lengthy statement on Saturday.
The UNFP considers that it would be useful to remind managers that putting pressure on an employee – through deteriorating working conditions, for example – to force him to leave or accept what the employer wants constitutes moral harassment, which is strongly condemned by French law.
“So, yes, the FA reserves the right to take civil and criminal action against any club that behaves in this way,” the statement said.
PSG have won nine of the last 11 Ligue 1 titles, but their domestic success has yet to be matched in the Champions League – an award the Parisian club have never won despite all their investment in the team.
Paris Saint-Germain faces the dilemma of letting Mbappe go in the final year of his contract and not being able to recoup any of the 180 million euros ($200.2 million) they spent in 2017 to sign him from Monaco.
Mbappe has been linked with a move to record 14-time European champions Real Madrid.
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