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Kylian Mbappé is strongly leaning toward leaving Paris Saint-Germain for Real Madrid at the end of his contract this summer, ESPN and Le Parisian reported on Saturday.
Mbappe is yet to reach an agreement with Real, according to reports, but other people close to the matter have made their decision; will move to Spain.
Mbappe’s current contract with PSG, signed in 2022, expires in June, when he will become a free agent. Since January 1, he has been free to negotiate and sign a pre-contract with Real Madrid or any other club.
He has stewed on the decision, even as officials at Real and PSG got antsy. But reports emerged this week that he would announce his choice soon.
Saturday’s reports, therefore, are either a sign that an announcement is coming — that Mbappé has nearly agreed to join Real Madrid — or a bargaining ploy. If it’s public knowledge that Mbappé wants to join Real, pressure could shift onto the Spanish club to meet his demands in contract negotiations. And those negotiations, it seems, are ongoing.
According to reports last month, PSG presented Mbappe with two things Real Madrid didn’t have: a higher salary and the chance to play in the Paris Olympics in 2024. It’s unclear how vital cash is to Mbappe; It is abundantly clear, however, that the Olympic Games are vital, even decisive.
“The Paris Games. . . they mean everything to me,” Mbappe said last month in a television interview. “The idea of participating in the Games with France would be a normal opportunity, it’s more of a dream. “
However, FIFA regulations do not require clubs to release their players into national groups for the Olympics, where men’s soccer is a festival usually reserved for under-23s. Most clubs don’t, as the Olympics clash with pre-seasons and even the start of some European seasons in August. In theory, Real Madrid could exclude Mbappe from the Olympics, unless his new contract includes a clause that secures his release, a similar deal to the one he has lately with PSG.
Mbappé is said to be negotiating that deal and, in all likelihood, other terms. Therefore, until Real Madrid announce his imminent arrival – or at least until the Madrid newspapers report that agreements have been reached – he may yet replace his mind. Real Madrid or PSG of any decision, as reported on Saturday. He can still turn around, as he did in 2022 in a similar situation.
But it appear now that the 25-year-old French forward, soccer’s most coveted player, a Real fan ever since he was a boy, has his heart set on Madrid.