Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 1:37 PM• Jeroen van Poppel

Paris Saint-Germain wants to sell Kylian Mbappé to Al-Hilal in ten days, reports RMC Sports. The wealthy Saudi Arabian top club is willing to pay 200 million euros for the 24-year-old superstar. Mbappé can sign for a salary of 200 million euros net per year for two seasons and also receives a very attractive clause: after the first season he can transfer to Real Madrid, it sounds like. Chelsea is also interested, but has not yet made a concrete offer.

It seems unlikely that Kylian Mbappé will ever play for PSG again. The Parisians declare war on the 24-year-old superstar, who was not taken on a training tour in Asia on Friday. A day later, Mbappé has been removed from the advertising poster that is distributed worldwide. His place has been taken by Lucas Hernández, who came over from Bayern Munich this summer. Marquinhos already took the most prominent place on the poster, with Neymar and initially Mbappé immediately behind him. Newcomer Lee Kang-in and Marco Verratti also pose on the poster.

Mbappé officially has until July 31 to consider the option included in his contract with PSG. This allows the attacker to extend his contract by one year. In that case, he automatically receives a loyalty bonus of no less than eighty million euros. PSG are pressuring Mbappé to do so, but the star attacker seems completely unintentional. Mbappé already announced publicly in June that he would not exercise the option. If he sticks to that position, PSG will sell on August 1. However, the ball will always remain with Mbappé: he can always refuse a transfer. PSG is even prepared to leave Mbappé out of the squad for a year, as happened with Adrien Rabiot in the 2018/19 season.

PSG is convinced that Mbappé has signed an agreement with Real Madrid behind the French club’s back. The Royal would the attacker be incorporated on a free transfer in a year’s time. PSG cannot afford that, chairman Nasser Al-Khelaïfi recently said openly. “You simply cannot let one of the best players in the world leave on a free transfer,” said the PSG president when he presented Luis Enrique as new coach.