Under contract with Paris Saint-Germain until next June, French striker Kylian Mbappé could have signed for Real Madrid last summer, leaving a small check to the club in the capital, which had spent 180 million euros to debauch him from AS Monaco in the last hours of the summer transfer window of 2017. However, since January 1, the Bondynois has the possibility of signing a new contract elsewhere and thus leave PSG for free. However, according to information from Parisian, a departure to Real Madrid in June 2022 is no longer an obligation.
Indeed, the international tricolor (53 caps, 24 goals) would be happy at the club since the start of this season, despite the abortive departure to Spain. He even returned to training earlier than everyone else to prepare for the second part of the 2021/2022 exercise, which he achieved with a hat-trick in the Coupe de France against Vannes (4-0). A behavior that could reassure the Parisian sports director Leonardo, who had already said that he would not let go of the case in mid-December: “If he decides to stay, he will stay because it is our desire. I think we still have good possibilities (to extend it). I believe it.”
He does not tie his future to Zinedine Zidane
In addition to seeming more motivated than ever, the native of Bondy would not be so sure to leave PSG at the end of the season. “Mbappé wanted to go to Real Madrid in August 2021 but that was the position of August 2021”, declares the daily, which would imply that his decision would have changed over the past few months. After an XXL recruitment last summer, Kylian Mbappé would have seen his requests answered in order to build a competitive team and thus win the Champions League, which has been missing from his club record since his arrival five seasons ago.
Moreover, the 23-year-old would not judge his final decision by the name of the coach. If Mauricio Pochettino should end the year on the bench of PSG, the name of Zinedine Zidane is often mentioned to succeed him. But the daily is categorical on Mbappé’s love for the Argentine: “He loves this technician, he even adores him, so that a change of coach would not necessarily be a good idea if the Parisian staff thinks about it.” What to leave a little more vagueness in this soap opera, which animates the world of football for several months.
