This week the two main objectives of Real Madrid in the transfer market have become much more difficultAs they were already starting two very complex incorporations that require, both, a significant outlay at a time of financial stress for all the big clubs, also the target. Madrid's plan is to go for Mbappé and Haaland, in that order, the first this summer and the second the next, when its price goes down. But circumstances play a little more against him after the latest events.
The white bet is clear: this summer Kylian Mbappé has to come to Madrid. The player already knows that the Madrid team will bet heavily if PSG opens up to negotiation and that the opportunity should arise in this next summer market, since Mbappé ends his contract in 2022 and for the moment he has refused to renew. It is the same tactic that was already used to remove Courtois and Hazard from Chelsea: wait until there was a year for them to be free and for the owner club to be obliged to transfer them so as not to let them go without entering a euro.
The problem comes from the statements of the president of PSG, Nasser Al Khelaifi, to L'Équipe: “I will be clear. Kylian Mbappé will continue to Paris, we will never sell him and he will never go free I never give details to the media of the negotiations (for their renewal). All I can say is that they are progressing. I hope to find a common point. He is one of the best players today and a fantastic boy. He will win the Ballon d'Or in the coming years, I'm sure. “A full-blown threat from PSG to Mbappé, although not entirely sustained: the Parisian club may refuse to transfer him this summer, as it did with Rabiot recently, but if not signing a contract extension will be able to go out for free in June 2022.
Mbappé can go free
Rabiot forced the machine and PSG responded by leaving him in the stands for six months; It seems more complicated that I can do something like this with Mbappé, an idol for the fans of the club and for the whole of France, being as he is one of the heroes of the World Cup won in 2018. It seems, from the words of Al Khelaifi, that PSG is not up to the task of letting the forward dictates how the team's sport planning should be: “If Kylian wants to decide who we sign or not, that's not possible. Where can you go? What clubs, in terms of ambition and project, can compete with PSG?
In Madrid they expected such a reaction from PSG and they know that for the operation to be possible they must treat the Parisian club with the utmost tact. It was already a few summers ago that Madrid denied several information on its website, related to Neymar and Mbappé, when it is not something that the white entity is used to doing. From the beginning, he has tried to convey his maximum respect to PSG and stay away from information that hinted that he had contacted the player through alternative channels.
These contacts have, however, been carried out through third parties and Mbappé's decision to play for Madrid is firm. In the white club they hope that PSG understands throughout the summer that if it does not transfer him now, he will lose it within a year without receiving a transfer in exchange. PSG has not behaved in the past like a team to which money moves (Rabiot, Verratti, Marquinhos …), but this case is different: no matter how much Qatari economic support supports it, the Financial Fair Play is there Y the club plans to lose 200 million this season. A transfer like that of Mbappé could solve much of those problems.
If there is no white smoke and PSG refuses to sell this summer, Madrid's plan would rotate towards Haaland. The white idea is to close the French this summer and try to transfer the Norwegian the next, so that both form a first-rate young forward who can play a full decade for Madrid. Borussia Dortmund does not want to sell Haaland this summer, it considers him essential for its sports project and also to promote the return of the fans to the stadium, once the hand is opened in that sense.
Haaland is 200 million
The Norwegian and his agent, Mino Raiola, have an agreement with Borussia that would facilitate their departure from 2022; There is no agreed price, but a figure close to 75 million transcended, although this figure was leaked when Haaland had not yet unleashed its full potential in Germany. Now that amount sounds very slim. As reported by AS, Borussia has been transferring that this summer the price of Haaland is 200 million: it is actually a dissuasive price, the club does not want to sell and knows that this amount, in the current context, is almost unattainable. Although from England it has already been reported that, if there is an option to leave this summer, Chelsea will be among the first in line waiting to make an offer.
If Mbappé cannot arrive this summer, Madrid already know what Haaland's starting price would be, although he has an excellent relationship with Borussia (Florentino and Hans-Joaquim Watzke, Dortmund president, are good friends) to try to lower that amount if necessary. Everything is still open, but the selling clubs, PSG and Dortmund are already warning that they will not deliver the spoon without fighting.