Pending to know the decision that Zinedine Zidane makes and regardless of whether he continues or not, within Real Madrid they are convinced that Kylian Mbappé, the great objective to strengthen the team, will end up playing of white. It remains to be seen if that will happen this summer or we will have to wait until June 2022 when he ends his contract. Although the impressions they handle in the offices are optimistic due to the sensations they receive from the striker's environment, PSG is far from giving up despite seeing how it has rejected up to three renewal proposals. The French are confident that they can convince him to renew with a higher financial offer than Madrid could offer him (now he earns 18 million net) but also with his sports project. From the Parisian club they maintain that Mbappé will be closer to lifting the Champions League if he continues in Paris than if he goes to Madrid.
A solid project
The season ended with the disappointment of losing the League to Lille, interrupting PSG's six-time Ligue 1 reign in the last eight years, on Sunday Mbappé was crowned best player for his 27 goals and 7 assists in 31 games. When picking up the trophy, he showed respect for his club, although he did not hide his ambition: "Everyone knows what unites me with this club. I have always been grateful to the president and to all my coaches. What I want is to win, to feel that I am in a place where I can do it, that there is a solid project around me. I 'eat' football, I live for football, so for me the sports project is essential". The star of the French team, who was calculatedly ambiguous, continued to give clues as to what he will take into account to make the expected decision about his future: "I want to feel that the team I'm in can do things. I talk to the club, "We'll see what happens. In any case, I'm happy for the four exceptional years I've lived here. They know the relationship I have with the club, with the city and the country. Things will be done as they should be done, whether in one way or the other."
The agreed strategy
This way of doing things involves following to the letter a script that Real Madrid and Mbappé drew up a long time ago on the basis of not generating any tension with PSG and that the player has been fulfilling. The agreement with Kylian is consolidated because contact has been maintained closely since in the summer of 2017 his signing from Monaco was cut short at the last moment when he decided to keep the BBC in attack and not giving him sufficient guarantees that he was going to Be the owner at 18 years of age. Since then, both through Zidane, his idol, and a white manager, Madrid has worked hard on the signing, always close to the young man and his family, agreeing with them on the strategy of not renewing in order to force negotiations on the summer before his contract expired in an advantageous position. The same script that they followed with Hazard and Chelsea.
Madrid will ask
At this point, in the near future from Madrid they will contact the sports director of PSG, the Brazilian Leonardo, to ask him if there is a possibility of negotiating for the player given that he has left one year contract. They know that it won't be easy for PSG to agree to negotiate, which is why the words of president Nasser Al Khelaifi shortly after Mbappé's statements were made public did not come as a surprise: "Kylian is a PSG player and he will be a PSG player, I'm not worried about his future, absolutely. He is French and Parisian, he has a contract and he wants to stay 100%. Currently we are an ambitious project and in the summer we will be financially." Madrid has always managed that in the event that Qatar agreed to negotiate, they would raise a very high price that would actually mean an invitation to desist, an amount close to 180 million for a player who is free in 12 months. Florentino Pérez should then decide how far he is willing to go.
PSG will not transfer him
However, it seems that this situation is not going to happen. Sources very close to the Parisian club are convinced that PSG will not negotiate and Mbappé will have to fulfill his contract in full. They maintain that in Qatar they value more being able to aspire with guarantees to win the Champions League in the next edition with Mbappé and the recently renewed Neymar than obtaining an amount of money that cannot be waived for any other club. In fact, at PSG they still hope to be able to convince him to renew, redoubling the tremendous pressure they have been putting on a boy who is only 22 years old. To avoid this temptation, the white club, in the event that Mbappe had to complete the last year of his contract, would guarantee him a significant amount as a transfer bonus that could be around 30-40 million.
Target: between 130 and 150 million
Thus, in the white club the priority these days is to clarify what is happening with Zidane. It is important to know as soon as possible in order to plan the list of casualties, which this summer will be extensive given that the club has decided to face a profound renewal of the squad. Once that is defined, the general director will begin to work on placing the footballers who are not available.
To buy expensive beforehand, it is convenient to sell well, knowing that with the post-pandemic market situation, these sales cannot be upwards. Even so, the goal set is to enter between 130 and 150 million for player transfers. They hope to get about 25 million for Jovic by selling him to Eintracht and another 25 for Ceballos. In the case of Mariano, the expectations are lower, due to the little he has played and his high record: 15 million would be a good sale. And it is counted on that Roma will execute the purchase option for Mayoral, set at 15 million. With his great performance (he has 17 goals) the striker is liked by Mourinho. If a good offer for Hazard came from 50 million, it would be studied. And the case of Asensio is unknown but nothing is ruled out. On the other hand, an attempt will be made to lower the salary mass by facilitating the departure of veterans who have one last year of contract left but who are not counted on and it is assumed that it will be very difficult to enter money since they have a very high record. These are the cases of Bale, Marcelo and Isco. But the renewal of the squad inevitably goes through his departure.
The Varane case
However, the main avenue of income to raise 130 million in sales is Raphael Varane. At MARCA we advanced on February 9 the suspicions that the white club had regarding the intentions of the central defender, whose contract ends in June 2022. His agent gave up when he was asked to start talks for the renewal, since then three months have passed and the player keeps saying that he has to think about it. Varane (28 years old) wants to end his contract and be free to decide his future as a free agent, he knows that Manchester United loves him, who already probed his signing in 2019, and after ten years in Madrid the idea of starting a new adventure appeals to him as much as substantially improving his current salary of 6 million.
Given this situation, if he does not agree to renew, Madrid will try to transfer him this summer, and the ideal scenario for the whites would be to be able to establish an operation parallel to the signing of Mbappe by selling him to PSG. In Valdebebas, they have the ability to get 70 million for an accredited footballer like Varane who, due to experience, proven quality and the world champion poster, is one of the most sought-after center-backs in the world. Last week from England the Mirror reported that United were preparing an offer of 46 million for him. His possible departure, whatever happens with Sergio Ramos, is well covered with the arrival of the versatile David Alaba and the confirmation in recent months of Eder Militao and Nacho.
Haaland would become the first option
Although Real Madrid's priority is the signing of Mbappé, if, as everything indicates, PSG flatly refuses to negotiate for him, Erling Haaland will immediately become the first option to reinforce the front. Despite the disappointment caused by the failed Super League project and the 350 million it was going to report, the white club maintains its objective of bringing together the two most desired scorers on the football scene. His plan was to wait until the summer of 2022 to sign Haaland, but he would readapt his strategy on the fly to focus on getting his signing now. The Norwegian's situation is as follows: his club, Borussia Dortmund, has been insisting for the last few weeks that he will not transfer him this summer and even less after achieving a place in the next Champions League, an essential condition for Haaland to agree to continue for another year. The general director, Hans-Joachim Watzke, was blunt: "I hope Haaland will play with us next season, I am totally relaxed about it. Madrid and Barcelona know the contractual situation and our position."
75 million clause
However, the white club is also aware of the existence of a clause in the contract of the very young scorer (21 years old) by which he could part ways with Dortmund in the summer of 2022 paying a very affordable amount: 75 million. A bargain when it comes to the great sensation of the course with his 41 goals in 41 games. Madrid learned of this possibility in the meeting they held on April 1 in Valdebebas with the player's father, Alf-Inge Haaland, and his agent, the controversial Mino Raiola. There they learned that even if they claimed otherwise, Dortmund would end up accepting an offer of more than 140 million this summer. The bad thing is that they also verified that the conditions for the signing that Raiola proposed were excessive: he asked for a salary of 30 million net a year for the player and no less than 40 million in commissions to be divided between the father and the agent. Too much for a boy of just 21 years with only one year in the elite, despite his impressive numbers.
Madrid believes that when push comes to shove, the player's agent will be a bigger obstacle than his club, but they have several assets. The most important, that Erling told them that he wants to wear white. Another argument in favor is the friendship between Florentino Pérez and the club's president, Reinhard Rauball, which would give him a preferential option when bidding for the top scorer. Because more than one Premier team is very interested in Haaland.
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