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We still have to wait for formal steps with Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid, as from what I’m hearing nothing is signed yet. Still, I really think this time it’s the end of the saga and the formal step will happen soon, and Mbappe will communicate with PSG once he’s formally signed the document. At that moment, PSG will announce that Mbappe will leave the club as a free agent.
I can confirm that Mbappe, his mother, his lawyers, all have the contract proposal from Real Madrid in their hands. So it’s a matter of time now. Of course, this has been a long time in the making, and it seems that last summer something was broken between Mbappe and PSG, when he was left out of Luis Enrique’s pre-season squad and it was a really tense situation.
In the end, PSG were able to fix that situation, but in December Mbappe decided to leave the club and in January he took some time to communicate with his camp and then to inform Nasser Al-Khelaifi on his decision. It seems it’s time for him to leave and try something different – he was already tempted by Real Madrid two years ago, and now he felt it was time to try a new project, a new league after a long time at PSG.
To replace Mbappe, I think it’s going to be a different kind of plan for PSG. Not only do they want to sign a forward to replace him, they plan to sign three important players for the present and future. For sure there will be an important offensive player, and names like Victor Osimhen and Rafael Leao are all names appreciated by PSG. These two specific players were also signed by Luis Campos when he was director at Lille, so he knows them and their representatives well, and they have a good relationship, so they could be two…
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