There will be no last minute offers on August 31 or September 1 or so to pretend. In the heart of summer 2023 there will not be a presentation with great fanfare at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in front of a triumphant audience. Kylian Mbappé will not join Real Madrid in 2023. He has decided to stay at PSG no matter what. He repeated it this Tuesday to Nasser Al-Khelaïfi during a lively face-to-face interview at the Poissy Campus. He has not changed an inch in his choice since he publicly exhibited on June 16 in Faro, Portugal on the sidelines of a match for the France team against Gibraltar. “Staying at PSG is my only option at the moment,” he said. A moment that will last all season, therefore.
The star and the president told each other their four truths in the privacy of a camera and the dialogue of the deaf persists. The captain of the France team has maintained a position known to all within the club since… July 2022. Feeling betrayed after having extended in May 2022, in particular because of the non-arrivals of Bernardo Silva and Robert Lewandowski presented as acquired internally, he had informed his management at the time that he would not go beyond his lease, scheduled for 2024, with an optional season until 2025 that he does not intend to raise for the instant. He is the sole decision maker for this last year of contract.
No budget exercise took into account a commercial transfer of Kylian Mbappé
The manager, for his part, told him again that the moment he extended, he would be reinstated in the workforce of Luis Enrique. The Qatari president’s entourage has communicated that without this outcome, the striker would be deprived of playing time this season, which ends with Euro 2024 and the Paris Olympics. An almost white season would harm the competitiveness of the Blues and PSG, which will have a hard time depriving itself of its top scorer in Ligue 1 in the past five years.
Since Kylian Mbappé once again formulated his desire not to extend in a letter disclosed on June 12, the club has responded in the same way with a succession of missives which take up all the elements of language distilled here and there by PSG. They are mainly articulated around this argument: without sound and stumbling sale of number 7, the finances of the club are in danger and will not pass the stages of financial fair play. According to our information, no budget exercise has yet taken into account a commercial sale of Kylian Mbappé so far, neither for 2023 nor for 2024 nor the following seasons.
Beyond the communication quarrel between two parties who no longer get along, the way out of the crisis does not appear to date. The top scorer in the history of PSG therefore remains one more season and his employer threatens not to use him under the incredulous gaze of Luis Enrique, the new coach who sometimes wonders where he set foot when signing in Paris . Offensively, the club has just strengthened with the signings of Gonçalo Ramos and the imminent one of Ousmane Dembélé. There is also Marco Asensio and Kang-in Lee, more promised to lining roles. Finally, there is the uncertainty of Neymar, whom the owner has wanted to see leave for two summers and who has not given up on this idea even today. Even if Mbappé’s choice is clear, everything remains unclear.