Author: Zina Bevel
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The french ligue 1 champions were told to pay Mbappe missing bonuses as well as wages from the forward’s seven-year spell in Paris by the LFP, French professional football’s governing body, but have confirmed they will not follow the ruling.
Mbappe is thought to have contacted UEFA last month over the salary dispute.
The club statement reads:
“Given the limits of the legal scope of the committee to make a complete decision on this case, the case must now be contested before another jurisdiction, to which PSG will be happy to present all the facts in the months and years to come.”
Mbappe, joined Real Madrid earlier in the summer, after years of reported disputes with PSG.
Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola has revealed that winger Jeremy Doku has picked up a muscular injury ahead of his side’s Premier League tie with Liverpool on Sunday.
Guardiola didn’t include Doku in Man City’s match-day squad for the second leg of their UEFA Champions League last 16 win against FC Copenhagen on Wednesday night.
Man City will travel to Anfield this weekend for what could be the biggest game of their season, with the sides separated by just one point at the top of the Premier League table.
A win against the Reds would put them top and surely make them clear favourites for the title ahead of Liverpool and Arsenal, respectively.
But they may be without Doku, whose absence for the Copenhagen match was explained by Guardiola before kick-off:
“He had some muscular problems so we did not want to take the risk,” he said.
Doku missed eight matches last December with a muscle injury.
Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, had admitted that Arsenal deserve to win their Premier League clash on Sunday.
The Reds were beaten 3-1 at the Emirates, their second defeat of the campaign.
Bukayo Saka opened the scoring for the Gunners, before they conceded an equalizer thanks to a defensive mix-up.
However, in the second half, goals from Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard sealed the win for Arsenal.
Klopp, speaking to Sky Sports, said:
“In general we can admit that Arsenal deserve the three points.
“The circumstances were a bit strange. The goal for us was similar to the cup game. In the cup game we had even bigger chances.
“We scored the goal at half-time and having nil shots on target, but a goal is a bit stranger. We had to adapt in a lot of moments today.
“We found our way into the game, we had crosses and situations where it was close and then the second half. But if you cannot keep it open, then Arsenal might become a little nervous.
“The red card did not help and we had to change what we tried a lot.”
