LaLiga authorities reacted angrily on Saturday to reports that French striker Kylian Mbappe had signed a contract extension with Paris Saint Germain.
LaLiga said it would file a complaint against PSG to European soccer’s governing body UEFA.
It said PSG’s new offer to Mbappe “attacks the economic stability” of European football.
“It is scandalous that a club like PSG, which last season reported losses of more than 220 million euros ($232.32 million) after accumulating losses of more than 700 million euros in prior seasons … with a squad cost around 650 million for this season, can close such an agreement,” LaLiga said.
“LaLiga will file a complaint against PSG before UEFA, the French administrative and fiscal authorities and European Union authorities to continue to defend the economic ecosystem of European football and its sustainability.”
PSG declined to comment on LaLiga’s complaint.
Earlier on Saturday, PSG announced that Mbappe had signed a contract extension until 2025.
“I wanted to announce that I have chosen to extend my contract at Paris Saint-Germain, and I am of course very happy. I am convinced that here I can continue to grow within a club that gives itself all the means to perform at the highest level,” the 23-year-old said in a club statement.
“I am also very happy to be able to continue playing in France, the country where I was born, grew up and flourished.”
Mbappe and club president Nasser Al Khelaifi posed holding a “Mbappe 2025” PSG shirt before the last game of the Ligue 1 season against Metz as the crowd erupted when Al Khelaifi broke the news at the Parc des Princes.
The France forward, whose current contract expires on June 30, had been widely tipped to join Real Madrid.
Mbappe, one of the game’s finest talents who burst onto the scene as a teenager and helped France win the World Cup in 2018, was set to leave on a free transfer when his contract expired at the end of the season.
PSG signed Mbappe from AS Monaco in 2017 in a deal reported to be about 180 million euros, making him the world’s second-most expensive signing after Neymar, who joined PSG from Barcelona for 222 million euros.