BREAKING: Kylian Mbappe vs PSG saga gets a twist as France’s players’ union threatens club

The transfer saga between Kylian Mbappe and Paris Saint-Germain has taken a new twist as France’s players’ union has accused the Ligue 1 champions of morally harassing the 24-year-old while threatening the club with legal action to protect the forward’s rights.

A statement from the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionels (UNFP) said: “These players – all of them – must enjoy the same working conditions as the rest of the professional workforce.

“The UNFP feels it would be useful to remind managers that putting pressure on an employee – via the deterioration of their working conditions, for example – to force them to leave or accept what the employer wants constitutes moral harassment, which French law firmly condemns.

“So, yes, the UNFP reserves the right to take civil and criminal action against any club that behaves in this way.”