• Real Madrid Image, prestige and power: the signing of Mbappé and the last world football war

Not

160 million

, not

180

, not

200

, not practically any amount.

PSG has not yielded to

Real Madrid

in the negotiation for

Kylian Mbappé

and has decided to stay with the footballer this season, despite the fact that he ends his contract in June 2022 and has repeatedly rejected the various renewal offers that

Al-Khelaifi

has put on your table.

The last day of the transfer market produced more silences than words in the tense battle between Madrid and Parisians.

Early in the day pessimism already reigned at the Bernabéu, where it was assumed that the PSG sheikhs did not want to sell their star in the process of publicity escalation after the signing of Messi.

The only possibility was that

Leonardo

, sports director of the French team who had opened the door to Mbappé in the middle of the week, would find a

substitute for guarantees

in the market. They visited

Borussia Dortmund's

door

, where they asked about

Haaland

, the other great diamond in world football, and when they received a "no" for an answer, they ruled out selling Mbappé. Not even the remote possibility of

Richarlison

, a great friend of Neymar, convinced them to endure the media lights of that trio dreamed of Messi. "No one else is going to come," they slipped in Madrid after Camavinga's announcement.

Florentino Pérez

went to

Valdebebas

in the afternoon to

attend the debut of the women's team in the Champions League, and there he met José Ángel Sánchez, his trusted man.

One last idea flew over the environment, offering a figure close to 220 million euros, touching the historical record of the signing of Neymar by PSG (222), but it was unnecessary.

In Paris they did not think about money but about the image.

The hidden war in the signing

The transfer of the young attacker has confronted the two sides of the current soccer elite: Florentino Pérez, on the one hand, and the Emir of Qatar, on the other, with

Nasser Al-Khelaifi

, president of PSG, as the executing arm of the Qatari movements . That is why in the transfer of Mbappé the economic amounts do not matter, it is not about money, but about

image, prestige and power

. Three things that the leaders of both sides share and for which they have been fighting all these years.

Florentino chairs the

Super League

and Al-Khelaifi the

Association of European Clubs

. The first wanted Mbappé as an image of the historic

new Bernabéu

and the second has refused to sell the great star of French football without having another tied, equally or more important, just before the

Qatar World Cup

, the first in history in the Arab world and the

turning point for the sheikhs

, who arrived in Paris a decade ago convinced that they would use sport to change the image the world had of them. They may not have succeeded, but they remain on that path. That's why they paid 222 million for

Neymar

In a record transfer, that is why 180 were left to win the race for Mbappé when he was at

Monaco

and that is why they were the first to knock on the door of

Leo Messi

and

Sergio Ramos

.

Once again: money does not matter, image and prestige do.

Mbappé's reflection

Now, in September, a new window will open for Madrid to try to sign Mbappé on

January 1, 2022

, in just five months.

It will be almost half a year of a lot of external pressure for the forward and his family, but in the upper echelons of the Madrid team they trust the promise that the player made in 2017, when he left Monaco for PSG and said "no" to Madrid:

see each other again

.

The Chamartín club knows that in

January it will be cheaper, but more difficult

.

The bid will be opened for all the big clubs in Europe and the expenses in commissions to agents and intermediaries will mean that the signature is not far from 'free', but the will of the player is there.

Yesterday, just before closing, Mbappé shared on Instagram a message from a friend of his that said: “I respect your professionalism.

Reschedule your dreams for soon.

Life is beautiful

.

The telenovela of this market ends ... For now.

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