Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 4:58 PM• Yanick Vos • Last update: 17:05

Real Madrid have made a new offer to Paris Saint-Germain for Kylian Mbappe. According to Sky Sports has the Royal made an offer of 170 million euros for the French international, whose contract in Paris expires next year. Le Parisien writes about a new offer of 180 million euros. Earlier this week, PSG rejected an offer from Madrid of 160 million euros.

Sporting director Leonardo said the 160 million offer was rejected because it is “far from what PSG want”. In the Spanish television program El Chiringuito It is stated that Real Madrid expects an asking price of 215 million euros for Mbappe. The stated asking price is in line with the reporting of L’Equipe and Le Parisien. L’Equipe reported Wednesday morning that the French superpower is taking into account an amount of between 190 and 200 million euros for Mbappe, while it has not been ruled out that he may even have to become the most expensive player of all time to leave Paris. That record is still in the name of Neymar, for whom PSG paid 222 million euros in 2017. Also Le Parisien mentions an asking price of 220 million euros.

“Yes, we turned it down, but we’re not holding anyone back. I cannot confirm any amounts, but the offer is around 160 million euros. The offer is far from what we want for Kylian. We have to hand over part of the amount to AS Monaco and we do not think the current proposal is sufficient,” Leonardo said on Wednesday RMC Sports. Mbappe was taken over from AS Monaco for 180 million euros and has a contract until the summer of 2022, but has refused to extend it for the time being. As it looks now, he can be picked up in Paris in a year’s time on a free transfer.

“We made two big offers to Kylian: first an equivalent to the highest paid players on the roster two months ago and then one above that very recently. We want to show him that he is an important player, the center of the project, but he is not above the project,” said Leonardo. “It seems Real’s strategy is to get a ‘no’ from us on their offer, so they showed Kylian that they did everything they could to bring him in. Then they can wait another year to get it for free. Real Madrid has been acting like this for two years now. It is unfair and even illegal as they have also contacted the player. It is unacceptable to us because it is not correct.”