Last summer, the Kylian Mbappé soap opera once again livened up the summer during the transfer window. For several years now, the Bondynois has only been linked to one club or almost: Real Madrid. The Spanish club is the French international’s favorite club who has never hidden his desire to play there one day. Yes, but in recent years, Mbappé has had the opportunity several times to join Spain but each time, he ended up staying in Paris and even extended his contract to 2022.
A situation which did not please Casa Blanca at all at the time and in particular Florentino Perez, emblematic president of the club, who nevertheless seemed to be on very good terms with KM7. But it wasn’t enough to convince him to leave PSG. This summer, while the club from the French capital had clearly excluded Mbappé from the pro group after refusing to activate his extension year (until 2025), Real Madrid did not really move. To the great regret of Madrid supporters who were waiting for a replacement for Karim Benzema. So a rumor grew: that of seeing the Spanish club trying to recruit Erling Haaland, the other star of world football who is crushing everything with Manchester City.
Florentino Perez doesn’t hold grudges
Like Mbappé, the Norwegian giant has long been associated with Real Madrid in the past, but he initially decided to join Manchester City. But the idea of seeing him evolve in Spain is clearly not so far-fetched as the Spanish press even revealed that the Merengues, upset by the Mbappé failure, were now turning priority to the Norwegian. But according to information from the Team. It is not so. And this is what Florentino Perez wants. The Spanish president made it known internally that if financial efforts were made, it would only be for Kylian Mbappé. By Erling Haaland.
According to the indiscretions of the French daily, the Spanish president, who experienced the Frenchman’s non-arrival as a failure, believes that sportingly Mbappé would be a much more logical choice than Haaland. According to him, it is the Frenchman who will also allow Bellingham to continue its momentum next season. Regardless, Real Madrid are aware that a superstar must be recruited in the summer of 2024 and being able to recover free (for the moment) Kylian Mbappé is an opportunity not to be missed. But for that, Mbappé will obviously have to make efforts on his salary while the media El Chiringuito revealed this Thursday that the man who scored 12 goals in 11 matches this season should reduce his salary by 20 million euros and receive 35 million net to Real.
