On Friday evening, after PSG beat Brest 4-2 in Ligue 1 and Kylian Mbappe scored his first goal of the season during another really good performance, the France star didn’t travel to Paris with the rest of the team.
Then on Wednesday, PSG sporting director Leonardo said that Mbappe wants to leave for Real Madrid if the two clubs could agree to a transfer.
“Mbappe wants to leave, that seems clear,” Leonardo told French outlet RMC on Wednesday.
Then he started against Toulouse in Monaco’s first game of the new Ligue 1 season, before being sidelined for the rest of August until the transfer was agreed at 6:30 p.m.
When people close to Mbappe ask him about the Barcelona star joining his team, he can’t hide his amazement.
They’ve formed a strong partnership already on the field and they spend a lot of time off it together, listening to music, playing video games or board games when not training.
Everyone knows the attraction of Real Madrid in Mbappe’s mind: it’s no secret that he has a dream of wearing the famous white shirt and playing at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Sources still insist that PSG doesn’t want to let him leave this summer.
At the moment, he has not agreed to a new deal at the club, nor has he rejected any new offers; the original contract proposal of five years with a 50 percent pay increase is still on the table if he wants to sign it.
Could PSG really say no to an improved offer if Real Madrid came back with a revised bid? They repeat they will not do business and that they don’t need the money, even after the Messi deal and even with the eventual resumption of Financial Fair Play after the coronavirus pandemic.