2024-02-19 12:57:40
The Spanish sports newspaper Brand reported this Monday that Kylian Mbappé signed a contract 2 weeks ago that from July 1st and for the next 5 years will make him Real Madrid player. In the middle of the year the footballer will be free of PSG and he has already confirmed to the French club that he is not interested in renewing his relationship.
It’s finally going to happen. After years of back and forth, multi-million dollar offers from both sides and a novel that seemed to have no end, Kylian Mbappé will be a player Real Madridthe club in which he dreamed of playing since he was little.
Last Thursday Mbappé informed Nasser Al-Khelaifipresident of PSG, that he did not want to hear any more contract renewal offers and that he would leave the institution in the middle of the year. The truth is that since January the player has had free rein to negotiate with other clubs, since the regulations of the FIFA enables players whose contract is about to end during the next 6 months to begin conversations with other entities.
This Monday the journalist Carlos Carpio of the sports newspaper Brand confirmed that negotiations began in January of this year and that The player has already signed his contract with him Real Madrid two weeks ago. The forward had a clause to automatically extend his contract in Paris for one more year, but in mid-2023 he told the club that he would not execute it.
Mbappé’s arrival at PSG
Kylian Mbappé arrived at PSG in August 2017 from the Monacoalso of the Ligue 1: He went on loan for one year with a mandatory purchase clause of 180 million euros, a move to avoid the Financial Fair Play. The Qatar-owned club had just disbursed the 222 million euros of the termination clause that the Barcelona had put to Neymar and could not take on another expense of that magnitude in the same window without breaking financial rules.
At that time he was close to signing for Real Madrid, which offered the same money for his signing and also had the approval of Monaco, who preferred not to reinforce a direct rival like the Parisians. But with the BBC —the front they formed Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema y Cristiano Ronaldo— the player and his representative had doubts about how many minutes of action the footballer would see. Besides, PSG offered more than double the player’s salaryan offer that Merengue He did not think about equalizing because it would have generated a huge salary imbalance between players who were already legends and who at that time was a young 18-year-old promise.
Mbappé’s novel to Real Madrid
In August 2021, Real Madrid offered 160, 180 and finally 200 million euros for Kylian Mbappé, but the PSG He stood firm and rejected each and every one of those offers, despite the player expressing his desire to leave the institution. In 2022 the White House He speculated about closing it on a free basis for 2023, but the player renewed until mid-2024 with a clause that allowed him to activate one more year automatically.
They had even reached an agreement and Mbappé had to personally call Florentino Perezpresident of Merengue, to apologize. At that time the player said that he himself Emmanuel Macronpresident of France, asked him to stay a while longer in Paris and that influenced his decision.
He PSG offered the native of Bondy, a small town north of Parisand annual salary of 72 million euros and a 180 million fidelity bonus divided into three installments. At the end of 2023 The footballer told the PSG leadership that he did not want to activate that clause and rejected all renewal offers. of the Parisian club, so the club put him up for sale and hung up (separated from the professional team). Finally they reached an agreement for him to return to the squad: for him to renounce the remainder of his loyalty bonus, a sum greater than 100 million euros.
Mbappé’s contract at Real Madrid and that of PSG
Unlike what happened on previous occasions, Real Madrid is not going to go out of its way to hire Mbappé. The White House he does not want to break his salary balance and for Mbappé to earn several times more than the rest of the squad, composed, for example, of players like Luka Modric and Toni Kroos that they are legends in the club and that they have won everything. In turn, the Frenchman is willing to give up some money in exchange for sporting glory.
In any case, the forward will be Madrid’s highest paid player: according to Brand will receive between 15 and 20 million euros net per year, to which objective bonuses will be added. In 2022, the agreement was for 26 million annually. His last contract with PSG guaranteed him 32 million net per year. At the end of this season he will have earned 212 million euros gross: 72 salary, 60 for renewal and 80 loyalty bonus.
When he arrives free, Madrid will not have to pay PSG for the transfer and the player will ask for a significant signing bonus. In 2022 they had agreed on 130 million euros, although this time this figure would be close to 50 million. He Merengue It will compensate part of these differences with some objective bonuses, such as titles or individual awards.