Mbappé and Neymar. Neymar and Mbappé. Two sides of the same coin that depending on the moment have alternated heads and tails. The Brazilian went through turbulence in the past for PSG, with Barça as a gale that shook the waters, but everything happened, the storm abated, and now the Brazilian is happy in Paris and his renewal, as 'TNT' well advanced it is about to take shape. Now, the cross is another, a Mbappé whose future is less clear and with Madrid attentive to everything that revolves around him.
However, in the Park of the Princes they have an asset, the good relationship between their stars. A new sample was evident after the Parisian victory in Le Classique (0-2), when Bondy's was asked about the continuity of the '10'. “Everyone knows the importance of this player, it is very good news for us. I hope he can write history for many years. He and the club deserve it.“Kylian said before the cameras of 'Canal + France'. The message is clear, I want Neymar to continue in Paris. Is it a condition for him to sign his own renewal?
And is that, if the contract extension of Ney taken for granted, Mbappé's has yet to be drawn. As AS has learned, an option that has already been considered in the past is gaining strength at this time: renewing the contract with a pro Real Madrid clause. In this way, the operation to sign Mbappé, the master plan of the white team this coming summer, would have to be extended for a couple of more seasons. The reason is none other than the economic difficulties that the white group is going through due to the pandemic, a monetary bump that would not let him face the transaction until he regained financial muscle.
In search of the double face
With his future surrounded by unknowns, It is expected that Mbappé will continue to defoliate the daisy until the Eurocup, the deadline for sealing, or not, the new deal. His contract ends in 2022 (like Neymar's and, entering the last year of the same without a signed extension is totally chimerical, since this would allow any team (Madrid, Liverpool?) To negotiate with him from next January These public statements between stars are nothing new, since days ago it was Neymar who advocated the continuity of his partner, while giving office to his own. “I'm staying at PSG and I hope Mbappé will too”. In the last words of Kylian a similar message is understood and that 'we' that he includes as part of the statement can be revealing.
If in the past it seemed that the future of PSG went through choosing a leader, now it seems that their cracks They have signed the pipe of peace and hope to take the capital's team to the top of Europe together. “We are like brothers, but I am the oldest. We love playing together because I want to get the best out of him.”, said the one from Mogi da Cruzes. I have always believed that great players are made to play together. And that was clear between us. The statuses were established since I arrived in Paris: Neymar is the center of the project, and I am there to help him“, the Frenchman recently said in France Football. The fight of egos seems more than buried. Neymar has become the face and Mbappé the cross. Although at PSG they are working to get a double-sided coin.