Year 2022. January. Kylian Mbappé can negotiate with the team he wants, since his contract expires in June. After long, drawn-out months of negotiations, Qatar and PSG manage to reverse a situation that seemed unapproachable, signing a renewal agreement for two seasons, a third optional, which allows the Parisians to keep one of the best players in the game in their ranks. world.
Year 2024. January. Kylian Mbappé can negotiate with the team he wants, since his contract ends in June. The situation is a complete déjà vu, despite the fact that in these two years, very long for the PSG fan, they have been marked by the future of the captain of the French team, with constant threats of leaving and joining, in the summer, after PSG ruled him out for his refusal to renew the last year of his remaining contract.
The scenario is identical, although with nuances. Since May 2022, many things have changed in Paris. Messi and Neymar have left, the club has oriented its policy towards a young team, without big stars and the Champions League continues to resist Paris Saint Germain. Meanwhile, Mbappé has decided to take a step forward, becoming the top scorer in the club’s history, insufficient to bring the Ligue 1 leader closer to achieving the top continental competition.
A World Cup, a final for history against Messi, whom he was able to unseat with a hat-trick, and many doubts about his future, have further fueled a soap opera that seems like, after almost five years, it will come to an end in June. If Mbappé renews with PSG, something that is by no means ruled out, he will do so on a long-term contract. If, finally, he decides to leave Paris, the team from the French capital will enter a new era, abandoning the 2011 project that Qatar started, conceived to bring together the best players in the world in PSG through external capital.
Since August, the date on which he was reinstated in the first team after a hellish summer, marked by the letter he sent on June 12 in which he informed PSG that he was not going to activate the unilateral clause to renew until 2025, also for being ruled out of the tour of Japan and the club having forced him to leave if he did not renew, the rumors about his renewal have diminished. The player has avoided speaking in public, he has applied silence in the French team, PSG does not want an incessant bombardment of news as in 2022 and both parties are, were until January, focused solely on sporting performance.
Both Qatar and PSG are going to address Mbappé’s renewal in the coming weeks. Aware that the Champions League can play a decisive, but not defining, role in its renewal, tranquility prevails in the upper echelons of the capital club. The rush is not going to mark the roadmap for the possible extension of his contract and the forward, in addition, has already reiterated that he does not want to fuel rumors and that he only thinks about the field of play. We enter the same scenario of 2022, with many parties involved, with a PSG that will seek to protect him for the next five seasons and with a player who must decide whether to continue in Paris or take a step forward in his career in another team.
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2024-01-01 01:32:33
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