Every club in the world has its business principles: Real Madrid likes to buy the biggest stars, Juventus in recent years has been collecting free players and then selling them on, Chelsea liked to spend during Roman Abramovich’s era, and even Manchester City doesn’t spare money now…But the most unusual way of functioning belongs to Paris Saint-Germain: Les Parisiens like to let their biggest stars leave for free! No matter how many millions they spend on the best players, and for some, they paid huge sums just to bring them in, in the end, they don’t take a single penny for them. It’s as if there’s some kind of resentment involved, so they refuse to “charge” for them.The case of Kylian Mbappe is the latest and most drastic. Because the biggest star of French football was paid in gold in Paris. He was practically given the keys to the club to lead Les Parisiens when he signed his last contract. And how did that look? It’s been circulating on the internet in the last two days because someone somewhere wrote that the expensive PSG team with Messi, Neymar, and Ramos was torn apart because Mbappe felt threatened, because he thought they were overshadowing his glory and because less and less French was spoken in the locker room… Well, Neymar liked that post. In the internet language, the Brazilian confirmed that it’s true.##NAJAVA_MECA_7891912##Despite all this, Mbappe informed PSG that he’s leaving at the end of the season. When his contract expires, Paris Saint-Germain won’t get a single dollar in compensation for his move to Real Madrid. It’s not like the club from Parc des Princes will go bankrupt because of this; if there’s nothing wrong with the French champions, it’s money, but it’s somewhat twisted, especially since it’s not the first time. And it’s unsurprising that PSG couldn’t promise Mbappe trophies in the Champions League. Last year, PSG let Lionel Messi leave for free. According to many, the greatest footballer of all time and, at that time, was crowned as the world champion with Argentina in the World Cup in Qatar. Okay, Messi came as a free player from Barcelona, but it’s hard to imagine another club in the world that has Messi in their hands and doesn’t try to get at least something from his departure.In that same transfer window, Sergio Ramos also packed his bags for free and returned to Spain to join Sevilla. A year earlier, Angel Di Maria left PSG as a free player and is now at Benfica, while there was a bizarre case with Xavi Simons, who was let go to PSV Eindhoven with a return clause for $6,600,000, which PSG activated just a year later. And now he’s on loan at Leipzig.Kylian Mbappé has agreed to join Real Madrid on a 5-year deal, he will receive a € 150M signing-on bonus to be paid over 5 years and a € 15M per year wage: in total € 45M per year for 5 years. The announcement is to be delayed until Real Madrid can no longer face PSG in this… pic.twitter.com/RyuIWOiYob— PSG Report (@PSG_Report) February 20, 2024 PSG also showed a strange sense of transfers with the case of Edinson Cavani, then the top scorer of Les Parisiens. In 2020, he wanted to go to Atletico Madrid, but Leonardo, the sports director of the French giant, rejected the offer and kept raising the price until the Spaniards gave up. The story’s outcome is total dissatisfaction of the Uruguayan striker, who didn’t even play at the final stage of the Champions League in Lisbon during the pandemic, and then left for Manchester United – without compensation. Thiago Silva was brought from Milan to Paris in a transfer worth $50 million in 2012. He wore the PSG shirt for eight years and can be said to have repaid them in footballing terms. And then, in 2020, he went to Chelsea. Guess what – for free.Incidentally, the first case in Paris where the biggest star left as a free player happened with Zlatan Ibrahimovic. From him, Les Parisiens started their rise to today’s giant, at least economically, if not yet footballing, and in 2016, he informed the club’s officials that he didn’t want to extend his contract. Although he was a veteran, there was still good football in Ibra’s legs, that year he moved to Manchester United without compensation and later to Los Angeles, then Milan.##EDITORS_CHOICE##So: Mbappe, Messi, Di Maria, Ramos, Cavani, Thiago Silva, Ibrahimovic. The company for which PSG didn’t take a single cent on departure!The only one Saints have “charged” was Neymar, but far below the price they could have taken earlier. The Brazilian was brought from Barcelona in 2017 in a transfer that was then a world record – well over 200 million. Two years later, Neymar realized he had made a mistake and wanted to leave Paris; he didn’t show up at the beginning of the preparations, trying to force the club officials to let him go. He had an agreement with Barca to return, but alas. At Parc des Princes, they didn’t even want to hear about it. In the end, the Brazilian remained part of PSG when he was sold to Al Hilal for $100 million. More than double less than the money invested in him when he was bought from Barcelona.
