While he has made the French his priority target for several years, Real Madrid did not want to move this summer when PSG put him on the market.
Real Madrid will still have to wait before seeing Kylian Mbappé land. The merengue club however had a golden opportunity this summer to sign the tricolor world champion. Two years after seeing PSG reject their offer of 200 million euros and a year after seeing the former Monegasque turn around and choose to extend his lease with the Rouge et Bleu, the vice-champion of Spain s is seen offering the Bondynois on a set or almost.
“For three weeks, Kylian Mbappé was on the transfer market”, thus told the Spanish journalist of AS, Andres Onrubia. But Real Madrid did not move. “The offer from Real Madrid never arrived”, indeed added the PSG specialist. During the month of August, relations between Kylian Mbappé and PSG warmed up and the French striker left the loft, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi making it known that his star player was staying in Paris.
Did Real Madrid miss their chance? The merengue club still hopes to see Kylian Mbappé go through with his contract and get him free next summer. But his turnaround last spring and the confidence displayed by the Parisian president do not bode well, according to some of many Spanish commentators. There are rumors of talks about an extension of a year or more, and Real Madrid, who faced the departure of Karim Benzema in the spring, could be biting their fingers for not seizing the opportunity.
