Despite the financial crisis that Barcelona is in, the club has ASH The goal is to sign Kylian Mbappe on a free transfer in the summer of 2022. The Catalans want to outdo Real Madrid by giving the Paris Saint-Germain attacker ninety million euros in signing money. In addition, Barcelona is willing to offer a hefty salary to Mbappe.
The thought that Barcelona could sign a star next season sounds like a utopia today. Especially after the most recent financial reports, supported by audits and statements from President Joan Laporta, which indicate that Barcelona is on the brink of bankruptcy. But los Azulgrana believe they will be able to sign at least one major acquisition for the 2022/23 season. The salary cap and the amount of money Barcelona can spend on the squad will go up next season.
Although Vice President Eduard Romeu admitted this week that Barcelona will only be able to sign players of name in two years’ time, other sources around the club think that something is already possible next summer. One of the main objectives would be to persuade Mbappe to make the transfer to the Camp Nou on a free transfer. It seems an almost impossible task. Real Madrid’s interest in the attacker is well known; in turn, Mbappe has publicly admitted that he wanted to leave PSG and that he was counting on a departure to Madrid last summer. However, the French superpower did not want to let him go.
From January 1, Mbappe will be allowed to talk to interested clubs who want to hire him transfer-free at the end of the current season. Barcelona expects the accounts to allow next July to pay him ninety million euros in signing money, according to sources around the club. Barcelona expects Real Madrid to be only willing to pay fifty million. The Catalans could also tempt the player with a salary higher than that offered by Real Madrid. It is expected that the Madrilenians will not offer Mbappe more than the seventeen million euros net that Gareth Bale earns. However, Real Madrid have healthier records than Barcelona, so the club is able to pay more in salary than its rival if necessary.
Barcelona were close to Mbappe’s arrival in the summer of 2017, former club president Josep Maria Bartomeu revealed earlier this week on TV3. The French superstar was actually Neymar’s intended successor after his departure to Paris Saint-Germain, but Ousmane Dembélé eventually came. The intermediary Josep María Minguella, now a sports commentator, already told four years ago what Bartomeu has now admitted. Minguella explained at the time that the deal was 120 million euros plus 30 million in variables.
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