Mbappé doubts, Madrid wants certainties. Now or never. The Madrid club has warned the French star that his offer to wear white has an expiration dateas published this Sunday The Sunday Times. The British Sunday newspaper states that the entity has transferred Kylian who has no turning back: if he changes his mind and decides not to sign this summer, his childhood dream of playing for Real Madrid will vanish and the white entity will go for another star. An ultimatum to dissuade Mbappé from listening to the siren songs, and pressures (which transcend the sports field), which come to him to renew with PSG, which tries to convince him with a short contract (two years), an astronomical offer economically (increase and a renewal bonus of 25 million euros) and the promise to improve the projection of his image in the club’s commercial strategy (where he now occupies a secondary position with respect to Messi and Neymar), according to his repercussion and importance in the team.
Madrid launches this órdago before the last movements of the Parisian club in search of the renewal of the player. Mbappé is not just an important player for the Parisian club. For the Qatari property of the entity, it is about much more: keeping in his portfolio a strategic asset for the promotion of the World Cup that is held in Qatar this coming fall. Selling the appointment with the World Cup having under the Qatari umbrella three of the biggest stars on the planet: Mbappé, Messi and Neymar.
Madrid does not want to prolong a soap opera that has experienced different episodes since the emergence of Mbappé with Monaco in 2017. That summer the whites already entered the bid to take over the then still emerging pearl of French football, which finally opted for the Parisian club. After many ups and downs, Madrid had almost tied the player and arranged the transfer with Monaco, after having assumed responsibility for an extra tax burden that the Monegasque club had to face, as revealed at the time in the papers published by Football Leaks.
The interest in Mbappé, who has followed a sustained upward projection over time, has not faded since then. Madrid has followed a long-term strategy to undertake his signing one day, either through a negotiation with PSG or waiting for the moment when Mbappé would have the freedom letter. From the Bernabéu they walked with lead feet to maintain an exquisite cordiality with the PSG leaders. Madrid has denied with official statements different information about Mbappé and an alleged interest in signing Neymar. Relations between the clubs have been fluid, as in the Keylor Navas-Areola swap agreed in 2019 on the verge of closing the market.
Madrid throws the rest
Until last summer, when the time came to go for Mbappé before the horizon of a final year of contract that could have PSG negotiate his transfer to make his departure profitable. A strategy that Madrid already used with Courtois or Hazard. Madrid presented two offers as a symbol of respect for the Parisian clubwho did not even reply to the Madrid counteroffer of 180 million euros, after rejecting the first, of 160 million euros. The communication channels between the clubs, already tense since the announcement of the Super League project, from which PSG distanced itself to align with UEFA, were broken.
Statistical comparison of Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland.
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Madrid does not want that, now that it is closer and more feasible than ever, nothing truncates the long-awaited signing of Mbappé. She doesn’t want to put it off any longer. In the past she has shown that she is not bluffing. Last spring, when Ramos decided to accept the club’s renewal offer after months of indecision, he found that the offer had expired. The Champions League round of 16 pairing, a repeat of the draw, disrupted the plans and delayed the roadmap so as not to distract the player, who still owes PSG, from the strictly sporting. But the final goal remains immovable, that Mbappé be a Real Madrid player this summer.