Hatem Ben Arfa’s PSG contract included huge ‘ethics premium’ bonuses if he didn’t slag off club or turn up late
HATEM BEN ARFA’s huge PSG contract included a £65,000 monthly “ethics premium” for not badmouthing them and training on time. The ex-Newcastle and France midfielder, 32, revealed the details as he sues PSG for £7million for playing him just once from April 2017 to June 2018. Ben Arfa earned £434k each month – £369k, plus […]
HATEM BEN ARFA’s huge PSG contract included a £65,000 monthly “ethics premium” for not badmouthing them and training on time.
The ex-Newcastle and France midfielder, 32, revealed the details as he sues PSG for £7million for playing him just once from April 2017 to June 2018.
Ben Arfa earned £434k each month – £369k, plus the £65k good-behaviour bonus that L’Equpe say he failed to qualify for only once.
Get French Football News report that the ex-Hull City loanee has taken to PSG to court on two counts, with a decision due on December 18.
He is suing the Ligue 1 champs for a symbolic one euro for psychological and moral damage.
And his second, main claim is the “opportunity cost” in possible individual and first-team bonuses by being dumped in the reserves.
PSG have hit back by saying Ben Arfa was left out purely because he was not playing well enough.
The Mail quote club lawyer Marie-Helene Cohen-Guilleminet as saying: “PSG were not in breach of their obligations when they decided not to select the player, who were within their rights to do so because of failings at training and weak performance from the play…
‘I’M NOT SCARED’
“Everyone knows that he did not train enough.”
But Ben Arfa replied by insisting every team-mate, even world record buy Neymar, believed the playmaker should have been picked more often
At the end of Wednesday’s hearing in the Prud’hommes de Paris court, Ben Arfa said: “All the players were surprised that I was not playing, including Neymar, because I performed very well in training.
“I was told, ‘You will give in, you will lose the plot’.
“But I am not scared of adversity. I stayed because I was convinced that I would play for them.”
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And Ben Arfa extracted some revenge on the field for his PSG woe, sinking them in the French Cup final six months ago with a shootout winner for Ligue 1 rivals Rennes.
Now though, his playing future is uncertain.
Ben Arfa is a free agent after leaving Rennes in the summer midway through a two-year deal.