Madrid sees Mbappé possible

Real Madrid sees Kylian Mbappé closer than ever. The white entity has gone from resigning itself to the fact that the French star was almost impossible this summer to seeing how Messi, who would have thought it, becomes the lever to activate that intricate operation.

In Madrid, a window has been detected through which to remove Mbappé from Paris without waiting for the crack to fulfill his plan to terminate his contract in 2022, something that would always entail a risk with PSG pressing the player by land, sea and air to that I renew. Messi, with one foot in the Parc des Princes, has changed everything.

Madrid, despite the important news with Messi and the derivative it entails with respect to Mbappé's situation, has not made a direct approach to PSG. Florentino Pérez's position has always been to be tactful so as not to provoke the anger of the Qatari property of the Parisian club, but now the board is different. PSG cannot structure a team with Messi, Neymar and Mbappé together and Mbappé's repeated refusal to renew only points the solution towards one point: its sale.

In Madrid we are waiting to see Messi first signing his contract with PSG. From there and not before, a gesture from Al Khelaifi or Leonardo will be expected to establish the bases of the negotiation for Mbappé. Madrid has always been, in the Mbappé affair, at the expense of external movements because there has never been the option of signing him based on a checkbook. The madridista part has been done for a long time, which is having the crack on their side and putting off the renovation; also that of having an economic space to house a new galactic (Mbappé or Haaland). He just needs PSG to give in.

The Madrid entity is not excessively affected by the possible advantages of the appearance of the controversial LaLiga-CVC agreement because it rowed to avoid endangering its salary limit with the agreed reduction of 10 percent to the entire staff and the containment of spending. Alaba, without going any further, has arrived for a salary similar to that charged by Ramos. It also has its own mechanism to finance the mega-ticketing: has access to favorable loans and in the latest bank accounts, presented last month, Real Madrid announced that it has 120 million euros in treasury. Part of that money, together with that obtained by footballers with a market to be transferred and who are not considered untouchable (Odegaard and Jovic, essentially), would go to satisfy PSG and manage to dress Mbappé in white.

The double game of PSG

While in Concha Espina the illusion grows, the PSG does not leave an opportunity to maintain the pressure to which it has been subjecting both Mbappé and those around him. Yesterday, in full hangover from the bombshell of Messi's goodbye and although the information about the first movements of the French club to tie Leo flourished, L’Equipe He published that Al Khelaifi's top priority continued to be to extend the French international's contract. Message for sailors: as long as he does not have Messi's signature, Mbappé is one hundred percent untouchable …

In fact, Pochettino has the green light to dispose of Kylian as he sees fit. Yesterday the Argentine confirmed that “There is a high percentage of chances” that the Parisian 7 will start today in the premiere against Troyes (9:00 p.m.) in this Ligue1 2021-22 that PSG has taken as a matter of pride. After suffering the sorpasso from Lille in the last championship and in the recent French Super Cup, the order is to spare no artillery and even less with Neymar just arrived on vacation and out of the call.

Patience

Thirteen hundred kilometers to the south, Real Madrid is patient and keeps an eye on what happens over the weekend with Messi. The announcement of his signing would be the starting gun in parallel by Mbappé with the respite that allows the comfortable deadline until the close of the market, on August 31. Enough time to complete the operation once PSG assumes that they cannot do magic with the numbers (To comply with the Financial Fair Play, he still needs to sell players for at least € 180M … and that before Messi appears) and that “freeing” Mbappé by selling him becomes inevitable. I read to Paris and Kylian to Madrid, getting closer and closer.