The presentation, which will also be galactic, is scheduled for mid-July. PSG doesn’t collect a single euro (he arrives as a free agent, he signs for 5 seasons), but the player is covered in gold: a five-year contract of 15 million net per season, which will rise up to 20
It was an open secret, and it has finally been revealed: Kylian Mbappé will play for Real Madrid. All that was missing was the announcement, and it has arrived. The club that has won 6 Champions League in the last 11 seasons is strengthened with one of the best players in the world, someone who has never won the Champions League, despite various Parisian attempts.
PRESENTATION POSTPONED
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At 25 years old and after 7 seasons at the Parc des Princes, the French world champion and vice-champion arrives in the Galactico world with a five-year contract. They wanted to present him this week, but the bad relations between Kylian and Nasser at Khelaifi and between Real Madrid and PSG prevented this, given that Mbappé’s stellar June salary is still at the expense of the French club. The presentation, also galactic, is scheduled for mid-July, ideally on the 15th or 16th, after the end of the European Championship in which Mbappé will play as a protagonist.
EUROPEAN FROM MADRIDISTA
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And as a Madrid player. Because this was Florentino Perez’s idea. And Kylian’s family: everyone wants to clean the air Kylian breathes of Parisian waste, give the player peace of mind to answer questions as a Madridista, and not as a player in an unproductive limbo.
THIRD ATTEMPT
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And so after two no’s, the second very painful for Florentino Perez, Kylian said yes to Real Madrid. Who had offered 180 million euros for him two summers ago despite his contract expiring a few months later, millions disdainfully rejected by the never-destitute club of the emir of Qatar. In that torrid August, Sarkozy and Macron took to the field, with all their political weight, to convince Mbappé to stay in Paris until 2024, the year of the Olympics in the French capital. Kylian said yes, and now he’s leaving for free.
THE FIGURES
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Well, free isn’t exactly the right term. Let’s say he is a free agent and therefore PSG doesn’t collect a euro, but the player is covered in gold. Not so much with the salary, because Madrid has a serious and not exaggerated salary structure, but the salary will be solidly supported by a signing bonus worth tens of millions. The figures circulating are these: the starting salary will be 15 million net per season, which will progressively rise up to 20. Then there are the bonuses for objectives, but above all there is a “signing on fee”, the signing bonus , which is 125 million euros. If we divide it by 5 that’s 25 million euros more per season. On the image rights front, Mbappé has achieved another victory: compared to ‘fifty-fifty’ normally applied to super stars at the Casa Blanca, the Frenchman will have 80% against the club’s 20%. All in all, not bad.
TACTICAL PUZZLE
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Because then another thing must be added to this rain of money: the real possibility of winning the Champions League and the Ballon d’Or. Kylian will have the ‘9’ left vacant by Karim Benzema on his shoulders. Now it will be up to Carlo Ancelotti to put in place the golden pieces of the tactical puzzle of Real Madrid 24-25, which has lost the architect Kroos and which in attack has Mbappé, Vinicius, Rodrygo, the other Brazilian acquisition Endrick, Joselu, Brahim and Arda Guler, a Turk who Ancelotti indicated as the crack of the future during the celebrations in Cibeles for the Champions League. A lot of players, a lot of talent, a complex puzzle in search of balance.
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JUDE FURTHER BACK?
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The names we have indicated deliberately lack that of Jude Bellingham, Madrid’s star in the last Liga: there is a good chance that given the abundance in attack the Englishman will return to his natural position in the middle of the pitch, where he played at Borussia Dortmund, to compete with Tchouameni (or Camavinga) and Valverde. We will see. Meanwhile, Madrid is getting bigger and bigger. Ah, one last thing: Mbappé’s official competition debut will be against Atalanta, in Warsaw in the European Super Cup on 14 August. For Gasperini, one more thought.
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