A departure of Kylian Mbappé from PSG is no longer unthinkable since Monday for this summer. A terrible blow for French football, which was betting big on September TV rights, and can lose a huge star.
Kylian Mbappé does nothing by chance, and his speaking out through a letter addressed to his club but passed through the media first, indicates that he has a precise strategy in mind. His goal was to warn PSG that an extension was out of the question, and the idea was also to let everyone know. History to wake up Real Madrid, convinced that this summer 2023 would not be the right one to recruit him anyway, while a number 9 is ardently requested after the sudden departure of Karim Benzema. In any case, the Paris SG striker threw a real bomb, and Qatar did not like this firm and therefore almost public position at all.
To the point of causing the sale of the prodigy of French football? Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and the Emir of Qatar are on the same wavelength for the moment, they are tired of the club’s stars who decide the timing and have such demands as to impose the procedure to follow on PSG. The idea of selling the French striker would fill the club’s coffers even if it would be a huge sporting loss. After the departure of Lionel Messi for the United States, and the clear sale of Neymar, Paris would see his face be completely turned upside down. And Ligue 1 too. Without the headliners who also allow the highlighting of a championship which only exists abroad through PSG, French football would clearly risk falling back into oblivion.
The billion to forget in the event of Mbappé’s departure?
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Vincent Labrune announced it recently, he plans to reach one billion euros in TV rights during the next call for tenders, which will be launched in September. This would have great financial consequences for the League, CVC and the French clubs who would benefit from such a windfall. But the timing of a possible departure of Kylian Mbappé would be literally catastrophic. Especially since the boss of the LFP is betting very heavily on the sale of TV rights internationally to improve the overall envelope. And without Mbappé, Messi and Neymar, Ligue 1 will not really make neighboring or more distant countries dream.
Mbappé Messi and Neymar who will get out of L1 the year when we have to renegotiate TV rights and reach one billion according to Vincent Labrune! pic.twitter.com/Jfpk8N8WYh
— Valderamou (@Valdera_Mou) June 12, 2023
Even before this summer soap opera which could lead to the departure of Mbappé, the specialist in the economy of football Pierre Rondeau explained that it would be very difficult to get this famous billion, before the withdrawal of Canal +, the GAFAM which do not put in crazy sums and the departure of the stars of PSG. Same thing for Sacha Nokovitch, the media specialist of the newspaper L’Equipe: “ Mbappé info? Not a gift for the L1 TV rights tender next September “. Enough to make all French football cry, which sees its present and future income being endangered in the event of the PSG star’s departure earlier than expected.
