Friday, December 3, 2021 at 5:42 PM• Jeroen van Poppel

Real Madrid are one hundred percent sure that Kylian Mbappe will come to the Spanish capital, reports ASH. The 22-year-old has turned down all lucrative offers from Paris Saint-Germain to extend his contract and is set for a free transfer to Madrid. Real has to wait a little more than 672 hours (28 days) for that: the negotiations can be officially opened on January 1, 2022.

After the arrival of Mbappe on the final day of the summer transfer window, there was initially some unrest within the ranks of Real. The Royal knew that the Qatari owners of PSG would pull out all the stops to get Mbappe to sign a new contract. Real now knows that the arrival of the Frenchman is guaranteed, now that he has ignored all proposals. “The signing of Mbappé is no longer in danger”, according to ASH from the club.

Mbappe has never made a secret of the fact that Real Madrid is his dream club. He sent for a transfer last summer so that PSG could recoup its investment in him. However, the Qataris wanted nothing to do with that and even kept Mbappe in Paris after offers above 200 million euros. The 53-time international resigned himself to this, but at the same time resolved not to sit at the negotiating table at PSG at all.

It hurt Mbappé that he recently finished ‘only’ ninth in the Ballon d’Or election, he says ASH. The striker finished fourth four years ago as an eighteen-year-old top talent and therefore sees his last ranking as a decline. Mbappe attributes this in large part to the fact that he plays for PSG, a club that does not fully live up to expectations. He knows that the chances of a Ballon d’Or are much higher at Real Madrid, as his idol Cristiano Ronaldo has shown over the past decade.

It also plays a role that Mbappe wants to step out of the shadow of Lionel Messi and Neymar. “Here he will poster boy are an ambitious project,” says a source from Real. Carlo Ancelotti dreams of a vanguard consisting of Mbappé, Karim Benzema and Vinícius Júnior. Mbappé played by far the most matches in his career as a center striker, but is initially seen by Ancelotti as right attacker, partly due to the breakthrough of Vinicius, who has been doing great on the left wing since this season, and Benzema’s role as center striker is also undisputed.