2023-06-14 06:33:58
It will be six years, specifically the month of July 2017, since the Real Madrid He was first interested in Kylian Mbappé. He was then a promising 17-year-old striker for Monaco who had generated enormous expectations after dazzling in his debut season in the Champions League, where he scored six goals and was included in the ideal eleven. In March he turned 18 and five months later Paris Saint-Germain closed a bizarre operation to circumvent the Financial Fair Play and snatch it from Real Madrid.
120 million fixed and 12 net token
The whites had sounded out his signing and Monaco had asked him for 120 million fixed plus 30 in variables. José Ángel Sánchez was the one who sat down to negotiate and Madrid thought it was a very high figure. although still seemed more scandalous to Florentino the 12 million net token, plus bonuses for objectives, which the father demanded for the player. The president denied the major so as not to break the salary scale of a Madrid in which Cristiano Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema were active, and the player ended up on loan at Paris Saint-Germain, but with a mandatory purchase option to be executed the following summer for 180 million euros. Still far from the 222 of Neymar’s clause that Al-Khelaifi and the sheikhs paid to get the Brazilian out of Barça that same summer.
Despite going to PSG, bedroom walls Mbappe they had always been papered with posters of Real Madrid players such as Benzema, Zidane or Cristiano. And it was not difficult to find statements from the child Kylián revealing that his dream was to wear the Real Madrid shirt sometime in his career. And with that weapon he has always played the white team to keep track of him. Since that summer of 2017 there have been countless contacts between the French striker and his entourage with the white leaders. From conversations between the player himself, who speaks Spanish with a suspicious Argentine accent, with Florentino Pérez to negotiations between José Ángel Sánchez with his lawyer and representative, or Kylián’s father with Juni Calafat.
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But it has been in the last two summers, when Real Madrid directly negotiated his signing and the player expressed his interest in wearing white, when he has come the closest to coming. Florentino put up to 200 million euros on the table in 2021 to buy him, but in the end the PSG he did not agree to sell him despite the fact that he was free for twelve months. And that summer that was left free, when the player had already closed the agreement with Real Madrid to become a white player, in the end Mbappé backed down, after a call from the French president Emnauel Macron, and renewed leaving Florentino and the team in the lurch. Real Madrid.
Since then, and still receiving messages from Mbappé himself warning that he still wanted to wear white in the near future, Florentino and Real Madrid have paid no attention to the Frenchman. Many messages have come from France, none firm, about the future of the PSG player. Now a letter from the footballer to the Parisian club is leaked to L’Equipe warning him that he has no intention of renewing and that he will be free in the summer of 2024, which would force Al-Khelaifi to put him on the market if he does not want to see him leave for free. Madrid has not flinched after learning the news. Nor when Mbappé, whose credibility at the Bernabéu is nil, has gone out on his networks to deny everything and say that he is happy at PSG and stays. The striker has been playing hide-and-seek with Madrid for six years, something that has taught the white leaders a lesson.
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