Mbappé is only really known in his closest circle. His mother, Fayza Lamari, his father, Wilfried Mbappé, his brother Ethan (also at PSG) and his adoptive brother, Jires Kembo-Ekoko. From the dressing room of the French club, only Hakimi Achraf can boast of having an ascendant over the Prince of Bondy. That environment knows that the bravado, the threats, the ordeals and the poisoned darts that Al Khelaïfi and PSG are distilling on Kylian will not scare him or change his initial position even one centimeter. The last one has been to propose a possible one-year loan to save the player’s salary, as published by Sky Sports.
Sources consulted by AS from the Parisian player’s environment confirm that PSG’s decision to leave him out of the Asian tour as a pressure measure has emboldened him even more. If he had any doubts about the position he should take when PSG began to use direct fire on him to force him to surrender and accept the order of the Qatari club. “Either renew or sell, it’s impossible for the best player in the world to leave for free,” snapped Al Khelaïfi a few weeks ago at Luis Enrique’s presentation, believing that this would alter Mbappé’s emotional pulse.
Nothing is further from reality. Mbappé has the two jokers in the deck in this poker game in which he hides nothing. He doesn’t need to bluff. He has a one-year contract and wants to fulfill it. The most professional posture that can be asked of an elite soccer player. And he is not fooling anyone. Even the National Union of Professional Soccer Players of France (UNFP) has joined forces with Kylian, supporting him in the face of a possible complaint by the player if he mobbing that PSG is applying to him reaches the courts. Al Khelaïfi wanted to win over the fans of the Parc des Princes by putting Mbappé at the foot of the horses, but this position entails a contradiction: Kylian wants to continue in Paris and it is the club that puts him up for sale to sell him to the highest bidder. Mbappé plays with that trick and his position, to date, is invariable: “I continue and I want to fulfill my contract.” Staying in the stands all season is a challenge that he has assumed and he enters his roadmap if everything remains the same. So what French fans are upset at this possibility because let’s not forget that Les Bleus will play the Euro Cup and the 2024 Games next summerthat for more INRI are held in Paris.
It is hard to believe that the flagship player of the French team is going to spend the course in the stands before a double date of such lineage and social and sporting hierarchy. But from Qatar the order is launched as a slogan: “You will never go to Real Madrid for free.”
The conflict is bound to end in court
The contract that Mbappé signed in May 2022 was, without a doubt, the most important in the history of the sport. After several months of intense negotiations, PSG managed to persuade the French striker, who signed a two-year contract with an option for another season, which could disappear in the coming weeks if the sale materializes. The operation includes different edges that cannot be ignored to analyze its complexity. Mbappé receives a salary of 72 million euros per season, he has to receive 60 million of a signing bonus of 180 million that was divided into three installments and he still has to receive, in addition, a loyalty bonus of 80 million, 70 last year and 90 if he continues next year, half of which will be paid on July 31, Monday. PSG is already working and analyzing the points of Mbappé’s contract to try to emerge victorious from a fight in which he starts with a considerable disadvantage. The club considers that the striker, by sending the letter on June 13 stating that he was not going to renew, was already expressing his intention not to continue in Paris, so he will squeeze all the options to try to save 80 million euros. Despite everything, Bondy’s star has everything to win. He has limited himself to not executing a unilateral clause of his contract to not renew until 2025. The soap opera could lead to a legal dispute for figures never contemplated in another contract in the history of football. -TO. onblonde
A position that goes against labor laws and sports ethics, because no one can be deprived of fulfilling their contract and more so with Mbappé’s behavior, who has assumed his departure from the tour of Japan and Korea without question and goes to train every day with the so-called ‘undesirables’, which is the crude way that PSG has of treating players it does not have. It is not surprising that megastars prefer another destination, given that Paris has become a golden cage where the Champions League and the Ballon d’Or are unattainable chimeras, while excessive money ends up destroying your competitive zeal. Neymar is the best example of this.