Mbappé puts conditions

Few footballers can boast of having won a World Cup without having turned 20. And less than having had an important role in the path of his team to the title that represents the pinnacle in the international career of any footballer. An achievement that Mbappé does show in his record. The French star is 60 days away from entering his last six months of his contract with PSG and, therefore, faces the final stretch to reach the threshold at which he will already be free to sign for Real Madrid.

A moment to consider your challenges for the future, with your national team and with Real Madrid. And being able to face any of those challenges entails imposing conditions. Besides in the white club, Mbappé has his mind set on the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, when he will be 25 years old. Last week, in a letter in The team Kylian expressed his desire to participate in the Games in his city to mark the 1,000 days remaining until the next summer Olympic event. He would have liked to go to Tokyo in the summer, but “they cut the grass under my feet,” he said in reference to PSG’s refusal to authorize his participation this past summer in Japan. Your contract may include a clause or some other type of commitment to ensure that Madrid frees you to be at the Games, whose Olympic tournament will begin on July 25, in full preseason and a few weeks after the end of the European Championship in Germany 2024. The French men’s soccer team has not risen to an Olympic podium since Los Angeles 84, when it was gold.

Mbappé will arrive in Madrid free, with a lower salary than he could earn in the Parque de los Príncipes. That sacrifice requires counterparts from the white club. Kylian will arrive to be the leader of the white project. He wants to be the headliner, shake off the prominence that in Paris he has to share with Neymar and now also with Messi. He comes to fight for titles, that Champions League that resists PSG and that acquires a different dimension by lifting it up with the white club’s crest on his chest. And also for individual awards. Madrid is the perfect springboard to present its candidacy for the Ballon d’Or. With the Madrid shirt, he was picked up by Figo, Ronaldo, Cannavaro, Cristiano Ronaldo on four occasions and Modric. Mbappé has been between fourth and seventh in the three editions in which he has participated in the award.

Your family also plays an important role. His affairs are run, with outside advice, by his father Wilfried. And his mother, Fayza Lamari, is also aware of the player’s affairs. There is another Mbappé in the making, his brother Ethan, who joined PSG in 2017 with Kylian. He is a midfielder, he will turn 15 on December 29 and last summer he extended his contract with the Parisian entity until 2024. If the clan wants the fate of both to remain linked in the future, it will be another derivative that Madrid must take into account .