Florentino Pérez,
president of
Real Madrid,
revealed everything that happened in the negotiation with
Kylian Mbappé,
who 15 days before making a decision and opting for his continuity at
PSG
changed his behavior, saying that "the pressure affected him", and left clear that "no player is above the club".
"He did not betray me, Mbappé conveyed to everyone his desire to play for Real Madrid, it was his dream as he has stated. We wanted to do it in August and they did not let him. They did not accept the offer, they did not want to sell him. He told the club that he wanted go but you had to wait a year, he always said that his dream was to come but fifteen days before he changed the situation due to the political pressure he had and the economic one. He had a blockage and came out on the easier side, "he said in
El Chiringuito.
Florentino Pérez and general manager
José Ángel Sánchez
had continuous contact with Mbappé, but noticed a suspicious change in his attitude.
"He told us that he wanted to come and we saw that he changed."
"An important detail was when he did not want to do a sponsorship act with his teammates. Football is a collective sport, everyone is on equal terms, there is no one different. They had offered him to be the team leader and the management of the club. I saw that it was not the Mbappé that I wanted to bring.
He had to change his dream,"
he admitted.
"He is very young and the pressure affects him more. The president of the Republic called him to ask him not to leave. It is not normal. It does not make any sense because there are more clubs there. He will want him to prosper,
Zidane
and
Benzema
have done it in Real Madrid and they are great for the president to feel proud of. The mayor called him and they offered him crazy things in
Qatar
. That made him block himself and influenced him a lot," he added.
The latest proposals from PSG changed Mbappé's decision, according to Florentino Pérez, who discovered things about the player that he did not like.
"At Real Madrid
there is no one above the club.
He is a great footballer but football is a collective sport and we have values and principles that we do not want to change".
"I took a liking to him, he made an effort but
the pressure made the circumstances change.
At 23, it's not easy to have the necessary peace of mind. His mother wanted him to come to Real Madrid because it was his dream as a little boy. They have confessed it. They tell us that She was saddened, everything was on track and circumstances changed. She made another decision and we have to respect it. She didn't come because she didn't want to," she said.
An important point that was pending clarification was the absence of a clause that would have allowed Real Madrid to receive an economic amount as a penalty for the change of opinion of the French striker.
"It can't be done," said Florentino Pérez.
"There is a rule and you have to go to the club to report that you are negotiating with another club.
It would have been a great disturbance to say that you were negotiating with Real Madrid.
The normal thing was to wait for the season to end. It would have been added pressure and for not harming Mbappé it was not done", he clarified.
"The madridistas
have been a little disappointed
but the Mbappé who was going to come is not the one from the end, if that's the case, it's better that he stays at PSG. The one I knew was the one from the dream. Now I no longer dream of seeing him from white because
this Mbappé is not my Mbappé. They have confused him. I wish him the best there,
I have nothing against him. I believed the dream but no player throughout the history of Real Madrid has been above the club.
No We will make no exceptions," he
said.
The top manager of Real Madrid ruled out that
the negotiation with Mbappé did not harm him so as not to fight for the arrival of Haaland.
"It had nothing to do with it, we have the best center forward in the world who is Benzema and he is incompatible at the moment with a magnificent player like Haaland. We were not going to bring him in to sit on the bench".
The president of Real Madrid also assured that the
Super League
project is still alive, although it will depend on what happens in court.
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