The issue of French star Kylian Mbappe's transfer from Real Madrid to Paris Saint-Germain occupies the world of football, and fills the "round witch" space with rumors and news about or after the French international from moving to the Spanish capital.
This prompted the Brazilian Leonardo, the sporting director of Paris Saint-Germain, to leave in media statements confirming that "Mbappe wants to join Real Madrid, and we will not prevent him from that. We rejected the first offer made by the Spanish team, but if he meets our conditions, we will see."
He continued, "There are no plans to speak with Real again about Mbappe, the deadline is midnight on the 31st of this month, and we will not allow him to leave for less than the amount we paid to bring him from Monaco. We still owe money to Monaco."
Leonardo explained that "Real Madrid made an official offer to include Mbappe for 160 million euros, and this is less than what we paid for the player in 2017."
The Paris team had paid 180 million euros for Mbappe, while the media reported that Monaco would get 35 million if the deal was completed.
Leonardo pointed out that Real's offer appears to be "a plan to extract the rejection from us, and to show that they have tried everything they can to include him this summer, and they are waiting until the summer of 2022 to sign the player for free, but Mbappe promised not to leave for free."
He revealed that "the team made two valuable offers for Mbappe to extend his contract, the first two months ago with a salary that reaches the stars of the first class, and the second offer a few days ago and exceeds the salaries of these stars. We wanted to show him that he is an important player and a fulcrum, but certainly not above the project."
It is noteworthy that the French newspaper L'Equipe revealed that Saint-Germain set the sale price of Mbappe, 22, for 200 million euros, adding that this price may rise to a record request that breaks the 222 million that the capital team paid to join the Brazilian Neymar from Barcelona in 2017.