Mbappe forces PSG to pay HIM to sign for Real Madrid

Carlo Garganese

Updated: 11 Jul 2023 11:36 BST
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Kylian Mbappe, PSG, 2022/23 — © ProShots

PSG could be humiliatingly forced to PAY for Kylian Mbappe to join Real Madrid this summer.

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According to journalist Ramon Alvarez, the reason Mbappe wants to leave PSG next summer rather than this one is because he is due to receive €150 million in salary and loyalty bonuses in the next year.

Alvarez reports that PSG are set to agree to pay Mbappe part of the loyalty bonus providing the Frenchman leaves immediately. This is so that PSG receive a transfer fee and don’t lose him on a free transfer next year.

Last month, Mbappe told PSG that he doesn’t intend to trigger the option in his current contract - which expires in 2024 - of extending by a further year.

Mbappe notified PSG in a written letter, which immediately sparked reports that the attacker will make his long-expected transfer to Real Madrid this summer.

However, Mbappe has stressed that he will see out the final year of his PSG contract and will not leave in 2023.

What did Mbappe say?

“I have already said that I will stay,” Mbappe told Telefoot.

“I have already said that long before all this happened.

“There are a lot of things that happen in a year, even more so at a club like Paris Saint-Germain.”

This sparked a furious reaction from PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who publicly made it clear that Mbappe would not be allowed to run down his contract.

PSG plan to sell Mbappe this summer unless he activates the option to extend.

Madrid have already bought Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund in a €100 million-plus deal but are able to finance Mbappe’s transfer also this summer.

Throughout the 2021-22 season, it had been unanimously accepted that he would sign for Madrid on a Bosman transfer when his previous PSG contract expired.

But, in a shock twist, Mbappe decided to sign a new deal at PSG.

It was thought that the new deal at PSG ran until 2025 but it has since been revealed it actually expires in 2024, with the option of a further year.

Only Mbappe himself – and not PSG – have the option of extending the deal by a further year.

Nevertheless, a transfer to Real Madrid finally this summer now looks likely.