Maximum tension between Florentino and Al Khelaïfi

The presence in Paris of the delegation of the Real Madrid for the dispute of the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions against PSG served to stage, and even accentuate, the strained relationship maintained by the leaders of both clubs.

The most striking fact, without a doubt, was the duration of the formal lunch between both boards on the same day of the match. Appointed in a luxurious restaurant in the world gastronomic capital, Florentino Pérez, white president, and Nasser Al Khelaïfi, his counterpart at PSG, shared a tablecloth for the space of just an hour and a quarter.

Some information indicates that the tension during lunch it was evident. As much as the seriousness of the faces of each other in the stageduring the game, that part of the white expedition had to follow from some locations closer to the corner than to the center of the field.

It did not sit well either, quite the contrary, the decision of the president of PSG and its sports director, the Brazilian Leonardo, to go down to the match break to the referee’s locker room of the shock, the Italian Daniele Orsato. According to what was reported by the SER chain, the Gallic leaders they recriminated, in a bad way, his way of directing the clashwhile Florentino and his companions were left alone in the area of ​​authorities.

The undisguised merengue interest in Kylian Mbappéwhich has torpedoed and frustrated all PSG’s attempts to close its renewal, and the confrontation between both entities for the project of the Superliga led by Florentino and to whom the French side never lent their support, are two of the great friction points that explain the terrible relationship between two of the most powerful characters in European football.

A situation that invites us to think that, if the ‘huida‘ from Mbappe to the Bernabéu this summer, from Paris they could try to return the ball to the white team in the form of signing of some key player of the current Real Madrid. bad enemy even for Florentino Pérez.

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