Paris Saint-Germain’ sporting director Leonardo Araujo revealed on Wednesday that Kylian Mbappe would be granted his wish to leave the club, but only if Real Madrid meet the Saints’ evaluation of the player.The highly influential Brazilian, who is in charge of all transfer dealings for the Parisian club, told RMC Sport that Real Madrid’s last offer of $188 million is not good enough.”We wanted to keep Mbappe in years to come. We’ve made him two contract offers, the second of which was better than what we’ve offered to our recent recruits. We wanted to show him that he’s appreciated here and consider him an important part of the project we’re developing. But we cannot put anyone above the project itself.”Sunday, 21.45: (13.0) Reims (7.75) PSG (1.18)Leonardo accused Real Madrid of talking to the player with no permission in an attempt to convince Mbappe to wind his contract down and then move to Madrid as a free agent, saving the Spanish giants from paying a substantial transfer fee – and leaving the Parisians with nothing.”It appears that Real were trying to get Kylian for free. It’s not right, and it’s illegal to talk to any player without the permission of his club. That’s unacceptable. Their strategy of waiting for the player to have only a year of contract left and only seven days of the transfer window left. They only made the offer to show Kylian that they are interested in him and that they’d offer him a contract when he becomes free to speak to any club with no transfer fee involved.”Still can’t believe Mbappe wants to leave PSG miss out on playing with Messi and NeymarDreams cannot really be bought!!❤️⚽️ pic.twitter.com/YC0HRxtzCw— FootBall Transfer’s (@football_trfrs) August 25, 2021 The offer was refused by the Ligue 1 runners-up.”Yes, we have rejected the offer. It was around $188 million – less than what we paid for him in 2017. The offer itself isn’t the problem, but how it was made.”Saturday, 23.00: (4.40) Betis (3.60) Real Madrid (1.83)According to Leonardo, Mbappe has spoken to the club officials many times, and he promised that he wouldn’t leave the club on a free transfer – no matter what happens.”Kylian now wants to leave, it’s clear. But our stance is clear also. We cannot change our plans so late in the transfer window. Still, if he wishes to leave, we won’t stop him, but it will be under our conditions. We spoke to Mbappe a lot, many times. Every time he told us that running down his contract isn’t an option.”‘Real will make another offer on Friday. Pay for Mbappe or play with a golfer’Selling Kylian Mbappe was never an option for neither Leonardo nor the club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, but sometimes it’s not club officials who have the last say.”We wanted to extend Kylian’s contract because it’s in the club’s best interest. We haven’t changed our stance. We want the player to stay and extend his contract. But if he is keen on joining Real Madrid, they will have to make a better offer.”
