Kylian Mbappé's hours at PSG seem numbered and although Real Madrid remains silent, everything seems to indicate that next season the French star will wear white. Madrid has been after the player for seven years.
As reported this afternoon by 'The Athletic' and 'RMC', the French striker has let Nasser Al Khelaïfi, the owner of PSG, know of his decision not to renew his contract and end his time at the club on June 30. Parisian club. If so, we would be very close to putting an end to the longest soap opera that European football has experienced in recent years.
Kylian Mbappé has been free to negotiate with his new team since this January. He already knows the intentions of the white team, which in economic terms are much lower than what PSG can give them. Madrid was already very close to signing Mbappé two seasons ago, but then everything fell apart when Florentino Pérez was almost done with the signing.
The feeling right now is that neither PSG nor the player are going to make Mbappé's departure official for several weeks. Another thing is that the pressure that both will endure from the fans of the French club will advance events. Madrid remains silent and continues to wait. The official slogan is that no one can come to break the salary balance in the squad. And it is clear that with what Mbappé asks for that would be the first thing that would jump into the air.
This communication is part of the agreement reached at the end of this summer between the striker and the club's president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, after the deep crisis that opened with the letter in which he told them that he would not activate the clause in his contract that allowed him an extra season. At that moment, PSG felt betrayed. He considered that the player was leaving after pocketing enormous amounts of money and without leaving anything in the box as a sale. Mbappé represents a gross annual cost of 200 million euros. Al Khelaifi then decided to exclude the attacker from the team's Asian tour, who stayed in the Paris sports city exercising with the “expendable” footballers. Furthermore, he announced that Mbappé was for sale, although it was something that went against the footballer's will, as he had said in public that he wanted to stay in Paris.
The footballer remained apart until he met Al-Khelaifi in mid-August and agreed not to leave without leaving anything at the club. When Mbappé has spoken about this pact in public, he has said that it was a formula that protected both parties against a possible departure at the end of this season. That day they agreed to peace in exchange for the footballer giving up around 80 million euros in bonuses.
The completion of this resignation, or a different compensation formula so that the departure is not completely “free”, is one of the points that still must be agreed between the club and the footballer. When that part of the agreement is sealed, in the coming months, PSG and Mbappé intend to make a joint statement.
