Real Madrid is waiting impatiently for the events surrounding Mbappé, an interest that has skyrocketed in recent hours after the Frenchman's hat-trick at the Camp Nou against Barcelona. The idea of the white team was always to attack the signing this summer, when the forward only has one year left on his contract (it ends in June 2022) with PSG, although the pandemic and its economic consequences have largely sabotaged that plan, But Madrid will also bet if there is a possibility for Mbappé to be the cornerstone of his next project.
On paper, the plan makes sense: one year after the end of the contract and after Mbappé has rejected several renewal offers, PSG would be forced to put it on the market before the possibility of it leaving in June 2022 for free, without leaving a euro in the box of the Parc des Princes. It's the same tactic he used with Courtois and Hazard to get them out of Chelsea, with success in both cases. However, PSG will be much harder to fight in that sense.
The idea of the Parisian club is not to negotiate with anyone for Mbappé, whom it considers at the same level as Neymar in importance within the team (in fact, he wants to match him on salary with the Brazilian, who earns 36 million clean per season) and force him to end his contract. That is to say, apply the 'Rabiot Formula' that he already carried out with the French media, now in Juventus.
Rabiot and Mbappé, along with Tuchel.
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Rabiot repeatedly rejected PSG's renewal offers during the 2017-18 season and in the first leg of the 2018-19; His intention was to finish his contract and change his scene, benefiting from an operation without transfer costs that would bring him a juicy transfer bonus and a first-rate salary. The tension between the player's mother and agent reached such a point that Rabiot ended up being punished without being summoned during the last six months of his contract with PSG. When it finished, he went to Juventus with Cristiano.
In the case of Mbappé, PSG threatens Madrid and the footballer with doing the same, although it is not within the plans to leave the striker in the stands if he does not agree to renew his contract with the Parisian club. The hope of PSG is that Mbappé signs an extension of their bond that contemplates at some point an exit in case the striker wants to leave Paris in the future; but not this coming summer, as it is imperative for PSG to do a good job in Europe for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (the French club is owned by Qatar).
PSG, a “golden prison”
It is a new sign that PSG is a bad rival when it comes to a confrontation like the one that Mbappé can experience in the coming months. Several players in the past tried unsuccessfully to exit; the general feeling is that there is no way to soften the French club in any way, because the economic amounts that are offered do not seduce you. Neymar, without going any further, tried to leave in recent years, first to Madrid and then to Barcelona, and there was no way.
There are other cases in the past, curiously always with Barcelona as the protagonist. The club culé tried to sign in his day to the central Marquinhos when he was not even a starter, as the heads of the rear were David Luiz and Thiago Silva; PSG refused. And above all, with Verratti, a very Barcelona-style midfielder whom the Barça club tried to sign on several occasions, always without luck. In conversation with 'El Larguero' of Cadena SER, Gerard Piqué summed up the situation well: “We told Neymar when he told us that he was leaving for PSG that he was going to a golden prison.”