It was a long time ago when a youngster named Kylian Mbappe came from Monaco and signed a monster 180 million euros deal with Paris Saint-German, a record for a teenager but a huge contract for any player, even by today’s standards. And now, six years later, we have a transfer drama with Mbappe, who informed his club via letter that he doesn’t want to renew his contract but wants to stay another season in the club. That basically means that he will collect a massive amount of money for another season and then leave on a free transfer, and that’s something that the Parisians are reportedly reluctant to allow this time. Mbappe’s mother and Macron step in to solve the problem with PSGBut if we look at the past, the drama between Mbappe and his current club was constant over the years and can only be compared with the Robert Lewandowski – Bayern Munich saga, which also burst into the open every few years and ended with his transfer to Barcelona at the start of the last season. And same thing can happen with Mbappe come September 1st. Mbappe reveals he told Paris Saint-Germain A YEAR AGO that he wouldn’t renewThe first vague signs of trouble happened two years after his arrival. He exploded in Paris and soon became the goal machine. He went to Russia to the World Cup in 2018 and won it with France, securing the best player of the tournament award along the way. After the celebrations, he said: “I am coming to a second turning point in my career. I discovered a lot of things here. I feel that it is perhaps the time to have more responsibilities. I hope it may be at PSG, it would be with great pleasure. Or maybe it will be elsewhere for a new project” he revealed. 🚨💣 Real Madrid’s idea has always been to wait for Mbappé till 2024. The club will approach him to sign an agreement from January 1. If that agreement is not signed, Real Madrid will not repeat the error they made in 2022. @marca pic.twitter.com/nIJ02rtxHC— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) June 17, 2023 Two years later, he again hinted that he needed to leave the club to progress. This time it was after failures to win the Champions League trophies in 2020 (lost in the final to Bayern) and 2021 (semi-final with Manchester City). “What I want is to win and for there to be a solid project around me. This is the most important. There is only one club that wins the Champions League every year, but you have to feel that you are leaving with a team that wants to win. We will discuss with the club and we will see what will happen. Anyway, I’ve always been happy here. I understand that everyone is waiting for my answer. We will do things in order” he told to Canal +, who asked about his renewal since the contract was about to end in 2022. 🚨🌕| Florentino Perez prefers to pay Mbappé a €100M signing bonus in 2024 & offer him a contract of 6 or 7 years, than help to make PSG richer – a club with whom the relationship is completely BROKEN. @Rodra10_97 #rmalive pic.twitter.com/jR5DepsOpi— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) June 16, 2023 And then Real Madrid, given the nod by Mbappe, decided to buy him one year before the end of his contract. PSG refused 160 million euros, but then the Frenchman openly admitted he wanted to join Real Madrid and didn’t want to renew. “I asked to leave, because from the moment I didn’t want to extend, I wanted the club to have transfer compensation to have a quality replacement. I announced it early enough for the club to be able to turn around. I said I wanted to leave and I said that quite early. I said at the end of July that I wanted to leave” he told RMC Sport after the news became public. ##NAJAVA_MECA_7324393##Long and painful months then followed, with his desire not to renew and PSG’s owners’ desire to renew him ahead of the World Cup in their homeland clashed and with a huge amount of money and friendly pressure from the French president Emmanuel Macron himself, Mbappe finally agreed to a three-year extension, but the tricky part was that only he, not the club could unlock that third year, which meant that he basically signed a two-year deal. And right after the season started, the press reported after a Benfica game in the Champions League that he was seeking an exit in the January transfer window. The player then believed that the promises made at the time of his extension were not kept. He soon denied all the press rumours and said he was happy to stay.Saints’ captain on assignment even with Brazil: Mbappe is a genius and leader of PSG, we all want him to stayHe followed with his ’I’m happy to be here, I’ll be back next year’ statements at the end of this season, but then came the letter. To be fair to Mbappe, he didn’t lie, as he stated he does want to stay in PSG until June 2024 but just doesn’t want to extend. And here we are in June, still talking about Kylian Mbappe’s desire to leave and still reporting about the ongoing transfer saga with PSG, which basically never ended anyway.
