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Updated:01/09/2021 01:02h
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Kylian Mbappé will not be a Real Madrid footballer … for now. Arrivals at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds yesterday night, August 31, nothing had changed compared to the last few days. PSG had no real will to negotiate the offer of 180 million euros that Madrid presented to it last Thursday, nor would it have intended to do so even if the white club had risen to 200, as it had planned to do if PSG had officially transmitted his desire to sell Mbappé for an amount somewhat higher than those 180.
“If they agreed to negotiate, we asked them to notify us on Sunday better than Monday or Tuesday, but what we were clear about was that we were not going to give them the keys to the castle. It was a negotiation, they had an offer and their duty was to answer. They haven’t, so we’ll see what happens in the next few months, but at no point has there been any nerves or tension. This was not a matter of life or death, “they explain from Madrid trying to lower the level of adrenaline in these last frenzied days of the market.
In the white club he gets up this September 1 with the tranquility of the duty fulfilled. They believe that they have done everything in their power to sign Mbappé and this has been transmitted to their social mass, but other parties indirectly involved in the negotiation do not think the same: «It is a scandal that they have not even negotiated . Any club in the world would have sat down the minute after receiving the first offer of 160 million. PSG and City play by very different rules from the rest of the clubs, and UEFA continues to look the other way.
With the option of signing Mbappé closed for good in this summer of 2021 that is beginning to come to an end, Madrid, far from licking its wounds and acting as a mourner, looks forward with optimism and enthusiasm. As of today, the new plan is underway for the French star to be seen in white in nine months, just when his current contractual relationship with PSG ends. It will not be easy, Real Madrid knowing that what is green today may be red tomorrow, but the roadmap is established and they trust that it will be fulfilled as planned until next January.
The temptation to renew
To begin with, four months of maximum pressure await Mbappé in Paris. It does not matter if you have refused up to six times to renew your contract. The Qatari owners do not understand, or do not want to understand, that money does not buy everything, and they will not give up their efforts to convince Kylian that nowhere will he be better than at PSG. The last offer to which Mbappé said no was 80 million euros gross per year in a five-year contract. Do the math, they are simple. 400 million, 200 of them net for the player, until 2026, but not even this dizzying proposal has made Mbappé change his mind, eager to wear the Real Madrid shirt, the team of his loves since he was a child.
In the coming weeks, PSG plans to further improve this renewal offer and put it on their table. In addition, he already has his entire media apparatus in place, which is a lot and powerful, to take the idea of going to Real Madrid out of his head. They see themselves as the richest and most handsome, and their goal is for Mbappé to feel that way too, even though he has tough competition with Neymar and Messi and he is not the headliner of the sports project.
If Mbappé remains as firm as in the last two years in which he has given his club pumpkins, on January 1 he will be free to sign his contract with Real Madrid, and that is the intention of the white entity. As soon as 2022 begins, the agreement with the footballer is finally sealed, although it is still too early to ensure every detail of that future contract. For now, as ABC said last Thursday, Madrid had planned to sign him six seasons and pay him 30 million euros net for each of them. The idea is not to stray too far from these figures, but it is not the same to hire Mbappé paying 180 million euros of transfer, as Real Madrid offered, than to bring it for free, because there is nothing for free in elite football.
The white club understands that the arrival of Mbappé at zero cost entails an effort in terms of the transfer fee and the player’s record. The idea regarding the seasons to sign would be the same. Six years, until 2028. As for the money to distribute for the player, his father and agent Wilfried, and his famous lawyer Delphine Verheyden, Madrid estimates that the amount would range between 60 and 80 million euros. The Frenchman’s file is a matter yet to be determined, but the idea is that he improves the 24 million euros that he currently earns at PSG. If these numbers end up being certified, euro up euro down, the total cost of Mbappé would be 60% less than if he had signed him this summer, which would allow Madrid to face another of the great operations that it has on its agenda with a view to the season 2022-2023, the course in which the majestic new Santiago Bernabéu stadium will raise the curtain.
Money for Haaland
The ‘free’ signing of Mbappé would allow Madrid to launch the net with sufficiency on Erling Haaland, the other player, along with the Frenchman, called to dominate football in the next ten years. The Norwegian forward has a clause by which from next summer the team that wants to sign him ‘only’ must pay 75 million euros. As the market is, the business seems round, but you always have to take into account Mino Raiola, who does not usually take prisoners with his clients.
The controversial Italian agent wants at least 30 million euros in commission, and this is what all the teams behind Haaland know, whose priority, like Mbappé’s, is to play for Real Madrid. Another issue is Raiola, who does not understand colors and whoever puts more bills on the table will have more options to take Haaland, but this is now far away. For now, which is no small thing, Real Madrid will focus for the next four months on taking care of Mbappé, making sure that he is not seduced by the sheikhs to renew, and signing his contract as soon as January begins. The Mbappé 2022 plan is already underway.
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