“When the real Madrid win one Champions Leaguethat same night he begins to think about the next one.” The phrase was uttered at the time by president Florentino Pérez, who would be about to fulfill one of his dreams: announcing the signing of Kylian Mbappé.
After the 36th Spanish League title and now the 15th in the Champions League, Real Madrid can almost coincide the celebrations for the European title with the announcement of the signing of Mbappé, which the French agency AFP learned from a source close to the matter could occur at the beginning of the new week.
No one seems to doubt for months that Mbappé ends up playing at the Santiago Bernabéu, although at the moment official confirmation is missing.
The player confirmed on May 10 in a video the open secret of his departure from PSG after seven seasons, when his contract ends this June. But without communicating his destination.
This Saturday in London, Mbappé’s name was heard in the conversations of Real Madrid fans on the streets of the city.
With his arrival, one of the longest soap operas in recent football history would end, and which has given rise to more rumors, speculation and script twists.
One of the most important was in 2022, when for months it seemed that Mbappé was going to join Real Madrid, the club of which he was a fan as a child and where his idol Cristiano Ronaldo played. But Qatari president Nasser Al Khelaifi then managed to retain the French idol with a very succulent contract.
But two years later, Mbappé seems ready to change course and the issue even reaches political spheres.
The French Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudea-Castera, confirmed last week that the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had a “private” conversation with the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, about Mbappé’s eventual participation with France. At the olympic games.
That event is not a ‘FIFA date’ and clubs are not obliged to release their players. The men’s Olympic football tournament is reserved for players in the Under 23 category, with the possibility of each team having three places for those over 23 years of age. That would be the way in which Mbappé (25 years old) could be with his country in Paris 2024, as he wishes.
However, Real Madrid has already announced that it will not make its players available for the Olympic event as it conflicts with its own interests. The Eurocup ends on July 14 and the Olympic Games run from July 26 to August 11, while the Spanish League is scheduled to start on August 16.
Before that date, Real Madrid has its preseason, which includes a North American tour, and on August 12 it has its first official match of the season, against the Italian Atalanta in Warsaw, in the European Super Cup, which the white team will play thanks to to the title won this Saturday.
According to the Spanish press, Mbappé would not be officially presented until after the Euro Cup, in mid-July.
He would earn around 35 million euros gross at Real Madrid, an amount significantly lower than what he received at PSG. And upon arriving with the letter of freedom he could receive a signing bonus of 100 million euros, always according to the estimates of the Madrid media.
How will Mbappé’s arrival affect the current figures of the white team? On Friday, on the eve of the final, Carlo Ancelotti sent a reassuring message to one of them, the Brazilian Rodrygo, about whom he predicted that “he is an important piece” and “will also be in the future.”
Source: Ambito
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