PARIS:

The bitter dispute between and his former club Paris Saint-Germain reached the French labour court on Monday for a tense hearing in which the France captain claimed 263 million euros ($304m) and the club responded by demanding he pay them 440m euros.

Both sides offered a long shopping list of grievances with price tags attached.

PSG said they are basing their figure in part on a botched 300m-euro transfer to Saudi club Al Hilal which Mbappe refused in June 2023, and its aftermath.

Mbappe left for Real Madrid on a free transfer when his contract expired the following summer.

"We are indeed claiming 440 million euros," Renaud Semerdjian, one of the seven lawyers representing the , told AFP after the hearing.

Semerdjian said the figure included lost transfer revenue, compensation

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