It looks like the second razor blade. After the public release the day before Kylian Mbappé on RMC and in the Team to explain that he had asked to go to Real Madrid last summer and that it is the choice of PSG to have refused an expensive transfer, the president of the Madrid club, Florentino Perez, hit the nail on the head with a very optimistic little sentence that is likely to tighten up a lot on the side of the Parisian leaders. “We hope that on January 1, everything can be settled” blurted Florentino Perez during a visit to the premises of the newspaper “El Debate”. As a reminder, Mbappé, still linked with PSG until June 2022, will be free to engage from January 1 with the club of his choice for the following season. And Paris, which could have hoped to touch around 200 million euros for a player of the caliber of the French international, will not recover a penny in the case.
Obviously, this little sentence had the effect of a small bomb on the football planet. And Perez who knows perfectly well that it is important not to give the impression of passing in force in front of the Qatari owners of the PSG held, questioned by RMC, to qualify his remarks. “My words were misinterpreted, he backpedals. What I said is that we have to wait until next year to have any news, always with respect to PSG with which we have good relations. “
The same day, the Madrid boss also detailed the financial health of his club even if these arguments are intended for the general public and not for Mbappé who does not need this to be seduced by the idea of joining the White House. “We have over 300 million followers on social media,” explains Perez. Real Madrid have more fans than most NBA teams. We are in second place after the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls ”.
Perez also touted the renovation of the Santiago-Bernabeu stadium. “It will be a meeting point for the whole city of Madrid. There is no other stadium like it and in the center of a big city like ours ”. And who could soon, according to him, house the next exploits of Kylian Mbappé from the 2022-2023 season.
