Mbappe contacts Real Madrid.. and Marca reveals Florentino Perez’s respond
They were surprised at Real Madrid when they received the first call from Mbappe’s agents at the end of last summer. Although it seemed like a joke, a bad joke, it was true.
In this call, Mbappe expressed his regret over the decision to renew with Paris Saint-Germain, which he had taken only three months before that call.
After giving the necessary explanations to Real Madrid about the reasons for his change of heart in May after negotiating his transfer and the terms of his contract for weeks, he wanted to check the readiness of the white club to sign him.
Mbappe wanted to know if they at Real Madrid were still interested in signing him. It is as surreal as elite football but as real as life itself.
Those communications have followed one another in the past few months. Real Madrid didn’t show too much interest, but they didn’t close the door either. He can’t do that, Mbappe being the best striker in the world and the club have a clear need to sign a striker to succeed Benzema in 2024.
Real Madrid replied
But it was clear that this bargain, if it were to be enacted again, would have to be dealt with in a very different way. Mbappe has to do a lot of his own and lower his expectations in all areas, not just financially.
In parallel, the white club manages the alternative option, Haaland, who in the same summer of 2024 can implement a clause allowing him to leave Manchester City after paying $ 200 million, according to Marca newspaper.
Since then several things have happened. The first is that Mbappe seems determined not to activate the clause to extend his contract for a third season until 2025, which Paris Saint-Germain will know about this summer as this must be reported before June 30, and he can pressure his club to agree to sell him this summer instead of leaving him for free in a year. 2024.
In fact, it is the same situation as two years ago, when Paris Saint-Germain ignored as many as three offers from Real Madrid for 160, 180 and 200 million euros.
What is happening is that in these two years Mbappe has added new disappointments in the Champions League (the most recent of which is this week) and he sees that time is passing and his role in the highest competition after six seasons is the role of a secondary representative and the main disappointment.
In any case, he should be the one to convince PSG and get a transfer price because Real Madrid would never negotiate with them. Relations between Florentino Perez and Al-Khelaifi are severed.
The other thing that happened was Benzema’s bad season. The Frenchman’s slump and a worrisome string of injuries could change the striker’s strategy.
If the team does not win any important title and Benzema remains on this gray level, it is likely that Real Madrid will rethink its initial idea and try to sign a world-class No. 9 striker.
Source: Marca
