Mbappe steps toward Real Madrid after rejecting SPECIAL PSG contract - Romano

Robin Bairner

• 5 Aug 2023 20:34 BST
• 3 min read

Fabrizio Romano has dropped the latest update on Kylian Mbappe’s dispute with PSG and also how Real Madrid might act in response.

Taking to his YouTube channel, Romano reports that PSG tried to offer Mbappe a new contract that included a special clause that would be triggered next summer and would have allowed him to move to Los Blancos.

The 24-year-old superstar turned down the offer, according to the transfer market specialist, and amid whispers that he will be left out of next weekend’s Ligue 1 opener against Lorient, appears quite content to play a waiting game.

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Romano explains: “There are rumours PSG preparing to bench for the first games of the season, or to exclude him for the first game of the season and also to keep with Kylian Mbappe not training with the main squad and working with the players who are excluded by PSG.

“What I’m told is that the decision on Kylian Mbappe and how to arrange his daily work on the training ground will be made early next week, probably on Monday, but at the same time the tension remains.

“In recent days, PSG have been trying to include a specific clause for summer 2024. So basically, what PSG did in a secret way a few days and also a few weeks ago was to propose to Kylian Mbappe a contract to extend with Paris Saint-Germain but also to include a kind of buy-out clause to pick his new club in summer 2024 and leave for that amount. That was, for PSG, the best solution to offer to Kylian Mbappe, but the player said no again.

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“He is not signing a new deal with Paris Saint-Germain. This is the message that he has sent again to the club. No answer and no chance to agree on that kind of condition.

“Again, Paris Saint-Germain and Kylian Mbappe are very far apart in their positions and again the feeling remains that PSG will wait for the best proposal this summer.”

Romano on Real Madrid’s Mbappe transfer plan

If PSG are no closer to finding a resolution with Mbappe, they are not about to get any help from Real Madrid, who continue to patiently wait on the sidelines.

Romano says: “Still waiting to see what Real Madrid will do, if they will enter the scene this summer or if they will wait for next summer. PSG believe that Mbappe wants to go to Real Madrid in the summer 2024 to get the biggest money from this deal. Let’s see what Real Madrid do later this month for Kylian Mbappe.”