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"Hope is never lost, but there is less and less." In the high command of

Real Madrid

the great question of the football market is not ignored, the one that white fans ask themselves in the after-hours of Tarifa or the early mornings of Ibiza. Will Mbappe come this summer? The club is ready to activate the operation, eager to execute its most important signing in recent years, but so far, from what they say in Madrid, there has been no attempt to start talks.

"There is no open communication with PSG on this issue," they point to the disappointment of many fans who still have faith in seeing

Mbappé

in white in a few days, clinging to the memory of those late market purchases in which

Florentino Pérez

-skinned and with the cell phone to his ear - he became an expert. From the agony of

Ronaldo Nazario

to the arrival of

Gareth Bale

. But these are other times, the pandemic has shaken football and the priority of Madrid and its president, as a present philosophical idea, is another: taking care of the accounts at a very delicate moment and finishing the ambitious reform of the Bernabéu, which must become a key sources of income in the future.

But this does not mean that, if Mbappé is within range, Madrid will go after him with everything. This option would only arise if at the last minute of the transfer market (until August 31),

Nasser Al-Khelaifi

, the manager of the team that broke the bank this summer, decides to sell his star at the risk of seeing her escape for free in 2022, when your contract ends. A logical position for the majority of leaders, especially in this time of crisis, but not for a club where money is not a problem and the interests that move its owners go beyond winning the Champions League.

For Qatar, the kingdom behind

PSG

, football is a matter of state. It is a means of advertising, brand image and national pride that should be crowned with the photograph on the lawn of the Parque de los Príncipes of the best forward that football has seen in many years (Messi, Neymar, Mbappe) and with the Successful execution of the strange 2022 World Cup, winter but with August temperatures and with all venues less than two hours away, as if it were held in an Olympic park.

The two shields look at each other sideways, with respect and also suspicion, while in the center of the equation the French player maintains a freezing silence that translates into illusion in Madrid and fear in Paris. In September he would be just four months away from being free to negotiate and sign with any club, without breaking any regulations. On January 1, Madrid could call

Mbappé

, something that would now be reportable to FIFA. Hence the leaden feet of the white club in the operation, especially since in front of it is an institution that it does not want to disturb. Qatar is much more than PSG. And PSG must be a fundamental leg in the pending revolution of European football (Super League).

Madrid never lost contact with Mbappé's surroundings, since in 2017 he was one step away from his signing. They have not lacked a cordial message with his family, with whom he has maintained a relationship since when he was a kid he went to try Valdebebas and confess his childhood Madridismo. When he ended up exchanging Monaco for Paris, he left the white emissaries the promise of "seeing each other again."

That he has not renewed is interpreted in the Concha Espina club with optimism. But will Mbappé resist these months of offers from PSG to sign for Madrid even for less money? "He is only 22 years old but he knows what he wants," they point out in the white club about a player who could be tired of the somewhat artificial aroma of his current club and who would prefer to wear a historical shirt, one of those that cannot be absent in the career of the great footballers.

Madrid is waiting on the prowl, hands tied and unwilling to be the loser of a fight that he says he has not even started. On the one hand, given the economic tightness of the Covid, the option of being done next summer without transfer cost with a player of the importance of Mbappé is very attractive, but

Florentino

and his collaborators know that if

PSG

puts it up for sale in the In the next few days, he will have to open the treasury and put on the table a powerful amount - over 150 million - to sign him now. If he doesn't, someone else could. They see him as a franchise player, called to become an icon of the club.


If this call does not take place from Paris, there will be four months for

Al-Khelaifi to

convince the Frenchman that where he will be better playing is next to Messi.

Sign the best of the moment to tie the best of the next decade.

It will be enough?

In Madrid they hope not.

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