This is a court decision that is not likely to reconcile Adrien Rabiot with PSG.
The Paris Court of Appeal decided in the dispute which had opposed for many years Adrien Rabiot and PSG. This Thursday, the one who evolves now under the colors of OM obtained the reclassification of its successive fixed -term contracts while it evolved within the capital’s club in indefinite contract.
For PSG, this appeal of the Rabiot family following a dismissal deemed abusive in 2019 when the main interested party did not want to extend his lease in Paris did not have to be with regard to the Charter and the Sports Code. “”
Club activity is linked to the temporality of sports seasons “, Estimated the Parisian management, for whom the club must be” able to adapt the workforce of the players who make up them at the start of each new sports season in order to maintain a performance level corresponding to the level of the actors of the sports competition in which the club team is engaged. “”
An argument which is understood but which did not convince the justice, which dismissed PSG of its request for compensation up to 500,000 euros for abusive procedure. “” The need for adaptation based on employee performance concerns all employers, regardless of their activity. Mr. Rabiot rightly argues that the employment of a player aims to exist as long as the club has a football team », Underlines the Paris Court of Appeal, thus relayed by L’Equipe.
1.3 million euros due to Rabiot
Quoted by the sports daily, Me Palao, Adrien Rabiot’s lawyer, welcomes the verdict. “” This is an important decision in terms of principles after six years of waiting. The abusive sanctions which Adrien had been victim were canceled by the court. The Court rightly considered that PSG had committed an abuse of power by dismissing Adrien of team 1. If the participation in a match depends on the management power of the club, the situation of Adrien was quite different since it was dismissed without valid reason for the field. Adrien is first of all a football lover and he was removed without valid reasons the right to play, taking the risk of annihilating years of work. “”
Consequently, the condemned PSG will have to pay almost 1.3 million euros to its former player. An amount including the 10,000 euros in damage decreed by justice under the damage suffered, but also and above all the wages and bonuses retained at the time by the Parisian management as part of the layoff of the international midfielder. Sanctions today deemed illegal by the Paris Court of Appeal.
