Monday, September 6, 2021 at 15:14• Jeroen van Poppel • Last update: 15:15

Kylian Mbappe may be transfer-free after this season, but his arrival will by no means be ‘free’. The 22-year-old attacker of Paris Saint-Germain, who is likely to move to Real Madrid, demands according to marca a sign premium of no less than eighty million euros. That would be the highest signing bonus in football history.

In football it is now good practice that top players who move from club transfer-free are hugely rewarded by means of a signing bonus. It is a kind of compensation for the transfer fee that is saved with such a transfer. Real Madrid is now used to this and, according to of the mirror already 29.2 million euros in signing commission to David Alaba, who was taken over from Bayern Munich this summer on a free transfer. The Royal is according to marca willing to dig even deeper for Mbappe’s arrival.

However, it is not excluded that Real Madrid will still have to pay a transfer fee for Mbappe. The attacker has now rejected six contract offers from PSG, but the French superpower continues to try to extend his expiring contract. According to marca PSG could win a new contract for Mbappe if the club agree to a special breakaway clause for Real Madrid. In that case, the attacker could go to the Spanish capital for a limited amount. That way, Mbappé would not leave PSG on a free transfer, which Leonardo has always promised. PSG’s technical director said that in talks with RMC Sports.

Until the end of the summer transfer window, Real Madrid made frantic efforts to sign Mbappe immediately. The last bid from the Spaniards was 200 million euros. Although the huge offer in view of the expiring contract of Mbappe caused a lot of surprise in the football world, according to Real marca arguments for the offer. For example, Mbappé would immediately be of enormous added value in Real’s attacking game, while the club would also still fear that the Frenchman will still respond to the advances of PSG to sign a mega contract. Mbappe will have to resist that temptation for another four months to be able to sign transfer-free in Madrid as of January 1. He would then make the switch on July 1.