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Real Madrid can’t afford to hold their own in pursuit of £ 173million Kylian Mbappe ahead of Liverpool … Cristiano Ronaldo is an idol for the PSG superstar but Real can only sign him if it’s FREE is
It wasn’t that long ago that Liverpool, in order to beat Real Madrid and Barcelona in the transfer market, had to beat that player’s hearts faster – to win him over with You’ll Never Walk Alone against the greater financial power of the Spanish Societies.
Now the roles are reversed. If Real Madrid want Kylian Mbappe to move to Spain off Merseyside or Manchester, they have to sell him the idea of wearing Cristiano Ronaldo’s old No. 7 jersey and setting fire to the renovated Santiago Bernabeu – money alone is no longer enough because that’s The Premier League has the greater financial strength.
Madrid are yet to negotiate a cap-wide wage cut this season to avoid £ 78m in losses. They let Martin Odegaard and Luca Jovic on loan in January, despite both being potentially key squad players to ease pressure on wage costs.
And they fear the return of top earner Gareth Bale next summer, with one year left on his lucrative contract.
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You just can’t afford Mbappe this summer as there is a € 200m (£ 173m) transfer fee on top of wages.
The PSG’s rating of the player can be interpreted in two ways. Either this suggests a pessimism towards the player signing a new contract that would keep him at the Ligue 1 club beyond the summer of 2022.
Or it’s just their way of saying it’s just not for sale. That’s PSG, so € 200m means € 200m, it’s not an invitation to haggle and if they have to lose it for free in a year’s time, they will. They did it with other players, they even left Adrien Rabiot in the stands for half a season. Money does not matter. Financial fair play rules are important, but finances are not.
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Increasingly, Madrid see the best chance of landing the player coming from him who only has eyes for them. As Ronaldo Nazario once said: “Top players always play where they want”.
Mbappe appears to have learned Spanish when he said to Jordi Alba in the Nou camp on Tuesday: “I would kill you on the street”.
If he’s ready to see his current contract with PSG and then pursue a childhood dream of being the new Ronaldo and joining the club his mother once said he should play for, then Madrid will have her husband . But it has to be a sentimental decision, at least in part.
Mbappe attended Real Madrid’s training ground in Valdebebas as a teenager in 2012. He came on the recommendation of the then youth team coach Zinedine Zidane. The connection with Zidane would be another incentive if the French coach can stay in the job long enough.
Mbappe was photographed during the visit with Cristiano Ronaldo, the man whose posters were pasted over his bedroom wall. And a Madrid-based L’Equipe journalist spoke about Mbappe’s mother, Fayza Lamari, admitting to friends that her son would play at the club.
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