In less than two months time, Paris Saint-Germain striker, Kylian Mbappe, will be free to talk to other clubs about a free transfer from the end of the current 2021/22 season.
It’s expected that the Frenchman will almost certainly enter into negotiations with Real Madrid, and move to the Santiago Bernabeu next summer.
Given that the French giants could’ve earned €200m for his transfer last summer, per ESPN, it seems an incredibly odd stance for them to take, however, perhaps they truly believed they had a chance of keeping the World Cup winner in Paris.
It’s the French capital that could come into play during negotiations with Los Blancos too.
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According to AS, Mbappe wants to take part in the Olympics in 2024, taking place in Paris. Not only that, but it appears he wants a clause inserted in any Real contract by president, Florentino Perez.
Perez isn’t known as being a man that takes instruction or accedes to demands from anyone, however high-profile they may be, and issuing the same before putting pen to paper isn’t likely to curry favour with him.
Mbappe’s ego too is, supposedly, alienating him from team-mates, and even former PSG star, Jerome Rothen told RMC Sport cited by Goal that the young Frenchman’s ego off the pitch ‘bothers’ him.
Can Perez really afford to have a player like that on his team…