2023-08-14 15:28:58
The end of the game of the summer? While football player Kylian Mbappé and his club had been in open conflict since June, PSG finally decided to reinstate the striker in its main team on Sunday August 13.
A dispute provoked at the beginning of the summer when the star player, top scorer in the history of the club, announced that he could leave PSG at the end of his contract in June 2024. Summary of a two-month match between a club and its star striker.
Discord Letter
It was with a letter from the star player sent to PSG that the discord began. On June 12, Kylian Mbappé announced his decision not to activate the extension clause of his contract with PSG, which expires in June 2024. While he has until July 31 to activate this clause, the he announcement via a letter sent to the club, formal and very early, does not pass with the Parisian management, property of Qatar since 2011.
Letting Kylian Mbappé leave at the end of his contract would prevent the Parisian club from obtaining a large transfer transaction check, the 24-year-old striker being the third highest paid football player in the world. Transfer operations represent a significant financial windfall for football clubs. For example, PSG had to pay 222 million euros in 2017 to afford international football star Neymar, who was then playing for the Barcelona club.
However, if a player leaves his club at the end of his contract, he is free to go to other clubs without any financial transaction.
Transfer fees
To avoid this disaster scenario for PSG’s finances, the Parisian club considered that the player was transferable to other clubs from July, allowing him to obtain transfer compensation.
If the Saudi club Al Hilal was very interested in the possibility of recovering the player by offering the pharaonic sum of 700 million euros (including 300 for the transfer), this offer remained unfulfilled, Kylian Mbappé being resolutely committed to staying with PSG until the end of his contract.
Ultimately, the Parisian club had decided at the end of July to withdraw the striker from the main team. This decision had earned the player to be excluded from sports competitions, in particular that of the Japanese tour from July 22 to August 1, in the hope of making him bend.
But on July 31, the deadline for activating the contract extension clause, PSG’s threats remained a dead letter with the player, decided not to give in to pressure from the Parisian club. By refusing to activate this clause, the striker would have given up nearly 200 million euros, revealed the daily The world, Thursday, August 10. A few days before his team’s first match in Ligue 1, and still sidelined, Kylian Mbappé risked having a white season.
Reintegration for Ligue 1
PSG finally decided to reinstate their player in the main team the day after their first Ligue 1 match against Lorient (0-0), Sunday August 13, a sign of a noticeable improvement between the two parties. The club’s outstretched hand could well indicate a possible agreement between the player and PSG, although it is still too early to know if we are heading towards an extension of Kylian Mbappé’s contract.
Rumors never confirmed by the Parisian star circulated, for example, about a possible integration of the striker into Real Madrid at the end of his contract with PSG.
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