Mbappe makes ‘NO MATTER WHAT’ Real Madrid transfer decision
Robin Bairner
- Updated: 10 Aug 2023 13:26 BST
- 3 min read
Kylian Mbappe’s mind over a transfer to Real Madrid this summer is made up, according to a report: the France superstar will not move to the Bernabeu in 2023.
Mbappe is presently at war with PSG over his future. The club wants to sell him to prevent him departing in 2024 on a free transfer, but the player has been insistent that he will remain at Parc des Princes.
According to Le Parisien, he is ready to double down on that stance, despite being frozen out of PSG’s first team by the hierarchy of the club.
“Kylian Mbappe will not join Real Madrid in 2023. He has decided to stay at PSG no matter what,” Le Parisien states.
PSG believe that Mbappe already has an agreement in place to sign for Real Madrid next summer when he will be a free agent.
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Mbappe and Al-Khelaifi’s fiery meeting
The paper claims that there was a “lively” meeting between Mbappe and PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi held at the club’s Poissy training centre on Tuesday, in which the striker told the supremo that he has not changed his mind.
Mbappe remains furious at what he perceives to have been broken promises on the part of Al-Khelaifi last summer. He had been told that Robert Lewandowski and Bernardo Silva would be signed by the club, yet the former went to Barcelona and the latter remains at Manchester City.
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Al-Khelaifi, meanwhile, told the striker that if he extends his contract with the club until 2025 – as part of an entirely new deal – that he will be reinstated into the first team. He reiterated that if no contract is signed, Mbappe will be deprived of playing time in a season that concludes with the European Championship in Germany and the Paris Olympics – a competition that the attacker has indicated that he would like to play in.
The battle between Mbappe and PSG, therefore, seems to wage on, with even Real Madrid unlikely to win from it... this summer at least.
