The sky was blue, as blue as his tunic, and all signs of a storm had been brushed aside. The failure of Euro 2021 and his missed shot against Switzerland was digested, so well digested that he took advantage of the start of the 2021-2022 season to become the boss of a Paris Saint-Germain that has become galactic with the reinforcement of Lionel Messi. Kylian Mbappé finds himself in the spotlight again, but not for his performances on the pitch.
Monday, December 13, after believing to find Manchester United, the French international learned after a second draw that he would find Real Madrid in the knockout stages of the Champions League (first leg 15 February, return March 9). It is therefore against the club he wanted to join last summer and that he could join free in June that the centerpiece of the capital club will play part of his future and that of his current team.
What were only rumors was confirmed by the person himself in the columns of L’Equipe on October 13: “Real made an offer. Before the Euro, I told the club that I didn’t want to extend, and after the Euro, I said that I wanted to leave. I am attached to Paris, and if I had left this summer, it would only have been for Real“. Three days later, the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, assumed to have transmitted an offer of 200 million euros for Mbappé, refused by the PSG to his dismay.
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Following the new draw, the @PSG_inside will face the @real Madrid during the 8th finals of the @ChampionsLeague #UCLdraw pic.twitter.com/OE9sCI8bMj
– Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) December 13, 2021
Despite the formalization of the mutual interest between the player and the White House, the future of the Parisian prodigy has remained in the background, in the shadow of the beginnings in the game of his team and his impeccable individual performances. Decisive 25 times in all competitions this season (13 goals, 12 assists), he is directly involved in 51% of Paris goals. During his last outing on Sunday, he scored the two victory goals against Monaco (2-0). He remains on five goals in two games with the France team. And in addition to progress in his head game, he is currently the best passer in the five major European championships in all competitions.
The fact is that Kylian Mbappé’s contract binding him to PSG expires on June 30, 2022. No progress on an extension has been formalized and he could therefore join his next club without the latter having to pay any transfer fee next summer. Pérez’s recent statements prove that Real have not abandoned the case, even more now that Mbappé has assumed he will only cast off in the direction of Madrid. If the player’s contractual situation does not change, he could either participate in bringing down his future club early by depriving him of several million euros, necessary for the writing of a potential contract, or else complete his Parisian adventure, started in 2017, by a failure against the club who would recover it for free at the end of the season.