Kylian Mbappé celebrates a goal with the PSG shirt. /
Transfer market
The French star is heading into the final stretch of his contract, as well as other listed figures such as Rüdiger who will be free to sign with anyone from January 1
The turn of the year puts additional pressure on clubs that have yet to tie up their stars. As of January 1, the players who end their contract on June 30 are free to negotiate their future with light and stenographers, which will trigger the rumor mill once the winter transfer market opens. Because the names on the table have a lot of pedigree. The most brilliant of them all is Kylian Mbappé, who after ignoring the numerous renewal offers that PSG has presented him is at the crossroads.
The French star, an old object of desire for Florentino Pérez, made it clear in a recent interview with CNN that he will not make a stop at Real Madrid in January. That does not mean, of course, that their fate cannot be sealed in the coming weeks. The attacker has spent months embarking on a careful strategy that involves not stirring up the Qatari ownership of PSG with high-sounding statements, while expressing his desire to face new challenges.
His efforts are for the moment devoted to his current club, which will face a volcanic knockout round of the Champions League against Real Madrid, the team he has admired since he was a child. That crossing, loaded with morbidness, raises the pressure on the crack and plugs any type of official movement, although not buried.
But Mbappé is not the only listed figure who is in such a position. Within six months the contract with Chelsea for Antonio Rüdiger, a German defender for whom Real Madrid is also fighting, who hopes to finish off an operation similar to the one that took David Alaba to the Santiago Bernabéu last summer at cost, will expire. zero. In the same situation are Bale, Marcelo and Isco, three stars who have come unless they have the transferable poster hanging, but whose sale seems a chimera.
Dembélé, Pogba, Di María …
Facing a transfer in January or undertaking a last minute renovation are the two options that several clubs have to avoid the departure of important players without any kind of consideration for their coffers. This is the case of Barça with Ousmane Dembélé. Joan Laporta’s goal is to extend the link with the French winger, but his financial claims are an obstacle, despite the fact that Xavi Hernández has asked the Barça president for an effort.
It also seems difficult the permanence beyond the summer of Paul Pogba in Manchester United. The French midfielder is in the orbit of clubs such as Real Madrid, PSG or Juventus, despite his irregular career at Old Trafford. Chelsea risk losing Cesar Azpilicueta, Thiago Silva and Andreas Christensen, as well as Rüdiger. Ángel Di María (PSG), Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan), Lorenzo Insigne (Naples) or Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) are other posh footballers who have their future up in the air.
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