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PSG goes crazy for Mbappé, the transfer window is relaunched
Published on March 17, 2023 at 11:00 am
Ready to do anything to keep Kylian Mbappé, PSG finally achieved its goals last year by offering a golden contract to the French international. An offer that has consequences, PSG being hampered in its ambitions in the transfer window by financial fair play, as journalist Jonathan Johnson reminds us.
Promised to Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappe finally put his signature on a new lease with the PSGas expected Nasser Al-Khelaifi and the staff based in Doha. The free departure of the French international before the World Cup organized in Qatar was not a conceivable scenario in the eyes of the owners of the PSGwho thus offered a fortune to convince Mbappe to stay.
Mbappé’s extension has weighed on PSG’s accounts
Inevitably, this had consequences for the summer transfer window that followed. Although some choices of louis fields be pointed out today, the PSG was unable to act freely, in particular because of its overflowing payroll estimated by the platform Football Benchmark to €728 million annually for the 2021/2022 season, a record for a football club. An amount that has since skyrocketed with the new lease of Kylian Mbappewho would receive a salary of €72 million gross per year, i.e. €2.7 million net per month after tax according to figures from the Parisian. « I think Mbappé needs to be aware of himself, why have PSG become so financially constrained in the transfer market? This is probably largely due to his contract extension last year, because PSG made a huge financial effort to renew it. “, today analyzes the journalist Jonathan Johnson on CaughtOffside.
“This kind of decision has consequences”
« It is true that Mbappé stayed for the project, not for the finances, but the fact remains that it is a significant financial commitment on the part of PSG, and with the Financial Fair Play being reviewed, this kind of decision has consequences and one of those consequences is a transfer window last summer which by all accounts did not go particularly well or was not a great success “, continues Jonathan Johnsonadding that Kylian Mbappe should stay at least one more year at PSG.
