Mbappé "I understand the disappointment, I will be the first Madrid fan in the Champions League final"
Soccer The frustrated signing of Mbappé: blank checks from Qatar, calls from Macron and Sarkozy and the effect of the KO at the Bernabéu
"Now what?
Now a European
Cup
final ».
At the
Santiago Bernabéu ,
Kylian Mbappé
's "no" hurt
.
He has hurt a lot.
But on the horizon there is no transfer market, but a new attempt to rule the continent.
The Madridista forces now rest there, despite the fact that part of the fans on the street are thirsty for transfers, for
new names
that cover for a second the one that will continue to be
PSG's number 7
.
Mbappé 's
third "no"
to the Chamartín board has been the most surprising.
In
Valdebebas
they understood the first, in
2012 , when he was just a
14-year
-old teenager
who visited the sports city of the Spanish capital and decided a few days later to leave his neighborhood of
Bondy
to enter the
Monaco academy
.
They also assumed with a certain logic, although already with a little anger, that Mbappé, after his explosion in the Principality at the age of
18
, would want to succeed first in the big club of his country and of his hometown.
What was not expected in the upper echelons of the Bernabéu is the French footballer's change of heart this year, signing
the largest contract in the history of football
.
50 million net
per season plus a premium of
100 'kilos
' (61 gross (30 net) and 97 renewal premium paid by
Barça to Messi in 2017
).
In Madrid they feared that the situation would go wrong, but they trusted in his wish from last summer and in what was agreed in recent months.
A confidence that has been the
basis of the management of the squad
during the last two seasons.
Without Haaland and without big names
After signing
Hazard
to replace
Cristiano Ronaldo
twelve months later , since the summer of 2020 Madrid has only spent the
30 million
that
Camavinga
cost .
A signing, in addition, executed when PSG rejected the 200 million for Mbappé.
The striker conditioned everything.
The salary space that Marcelo, Isco and Bale
are going to leave
(almost 60 million) was for him and the 178 million entered in transfers in the last two windows, for his salary and his
transfer bonus
after covering the economic holes of the pandemic .
Such was the confidence and insistence in him that Madrid
withdrew from the bid for Haaland
by not being able to fit the economic obligations of signing the Norwegian with the offer agreed with Mbappé's entourage.
And such is the significance of the Gaul that there is no other similar piece, due to its age and quality, on the market.
There is no 'Plan B'
on the table of just one name and two surnames.
When the Champions League final is over, Madrid will begin to sound out their chances.
It will announce the signing of
Rudiger
, a Chelsea central defender who will arrive on a free transfer, and will speed up the official
renewal
of
Militao
and, especially,
Vinicius Júnior
.
The Brazilian attacker, who according to this newspaper was "crazy" to play with Mbappé, will now maintain his position on the left side and will earn stripes for next season.
The directive prepares for him an important salary improvement that will place him in the main steps of the squad.
Vinicius will be, along with
Rodrygo
,
Valverde and Camavinga
, the young pillar of the future Madrid.
"It is inexplicable to win with this shirt," Vinicius posted on social media moments after the announcement of Mbappé's renewal.
"
Being from Madrid is a privilege
that not everyone can have," Valverde wrote, while Rodrygo uploaded a photo kissing the Madrid shield.
Young blood and madridista
, one of the keys to the good atmosphere in the current locker room, is what will be sought in the market.
Signings like those of Vinicius, Rodrygo, Valverde and Camavinga.
The fear for the experience of the signing of Hazard, who arrived at the
age of 28
, rules out doing crazy things for other great stars already consolidated and almost impossible to get out of their teams, such as
Lewandowski
,
Kane
or
Salah
, so the fan will have to start investigating other names, such as
Darwin Núñez
(22-year-old forward for Benfica),
Bellingham
, (18-year-old midfielder for Dortmund),
Wirtz
(19-year-old midfielder for Leverkusen),
Leao
(forward of 22 for Milan),
Tchouamení
(midfielder of 22 for Monaco).
200 million in cash and salary space, but "calm and without madness", sounds by Chamartín.
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