France’s World Cup-winning forward has agreed to a three-year contract extension that is close to being signed.
PARIS — Kylian Mbappé, one of soccer’s most-coveted players, is set to stay at Paris Saint-Germain after again turning down the chance to join Real Madrid.
Instead of joining 13-time European champion Madrid, which has chased him for so long, Mbappé is staying to try to deliver PSG its first Champions League title. The wealth of the club’s Qatar sovereign wealth fund ownership linked to the emir allows PSG to resist bids that could prove irresistible to other clubs without state funding.
“It is an INSULT to soccer that PSG is going to renew Mbappé with huge quantities of money after losses of 700 million euros in recent seasons and more than 600 million euros in salaries,” Mbappé, who starred for France at the 2018 World Cup, would have been a statement signing for Pérez — especially if he had lured Mbappé away from a team that emerged as a rival only in the last decade through its Qatari funding.
He visited Madrid’s facilities at age 14, and was greeted by France great Zinedine Zidane, but he insteadParis Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe scores during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg match against FC Barcelona in February.Mbappé’s first professional goal came at the age of 17 years, 62 days, which beat the Monaco club record held by Thierry Henry.
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