After an intense market closure in which much of the attention was focused the possible signing of Kylian Mbappé (22 years old) by Real Madrid, French newspapers have begun to explain those frenzied 24 and last hours. Thus, the newspaper L’Équipe offered new details of what it has dubbed “no signing of the century.” According to this medium, after the moments in which it was close until the succession of offers (whites came to present a figure of 200 million to take over the French striker, something that Bondy’s liked because it means that the Madridistas were not bluffing and were going hard for his signing), all without an answer, several agents tried to intervene, showing off the good relations between the two clubs. The newspaper does not dare to really explain what his role was, but assures that his fate was decided in Qatar.
More specifically in the palace of Emir Tamim ben Hamad Al-Thani. This newspaper assures that there were doubts within the PSG. They understood the capital importance of the French player at all levels, but given the white offers and the threat of being free at the end of his contract, there were voices who chose to sell. The emir, who made the final decision, appreciated it, but decided not to give the green light to his departure: “The last word was the Emir. He listened to the positions of the pros and cons, but he remained in his initial line: it was not a matter of depriving himself of the opportunity to live a season with the Messi-Mbappé-Neymar trio even rejecting offers XXL “, sentence.
Record salary.
Likewise, Le Parisien explains that Bondy’s has said ‘no’ to a last renewal offer from Leonardo that it was irreplaceable in economic terms. The newspaper emphasizes that the last offer from PSG to Mbappé to renew him has been of 45 million euros net, that is, an amount that would amount to 135 million if we take into account the tax charges and that also included an “astronomical renewal bonus” that has never been seen in football, according to said media.
An offer that, as usual, has been rejected by the striker. If he had accepted, he would have become the highest paid of the squad, surpassing Messi and Neymar. Mbappé will be free to negotiate with any team from January 1. Al-Khelaïfi has four months to make him change his mind. But for the moment, he remains firm in his decision not to accept any renewal offer even if he is promoted as the highest paid of the squad …