The Guardian (Nigeria)

Mbappe to earn £ 250,000 per week in Real Madrid

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THE Kylian Mbappe camp is stuffed with hardened dealmakers, writes 90min. com. Mbappe’s father Wilfried laughed off Caen’s attempts to secure the services of his son when he was 14, scoffing that the club were “trying to catch a shark with a fishing rod” after their opening offer.

Fayza Lamari, the more feared half of Mbappe’s tigerish parenting team, was not impressed when Chelsea offered her son a second trial in 2011. Lamari told the club’s youth department chief, Jim Fraser, via the French- speaking scout Daniel Boga: “If you want to sign him, you sign him now. In five years, you will come back for him for £ 50m.”

Boga left out the arrogant warning in his translatio­n. Up against a fleet of lawyers and advisers alongside Mbappe’s parents, Real Madrid appears to have finally emerged with a resolution from the negotiatio­ns.

No transfer fee will be required as Mbappe’s deal in the French capital expires this summer but there is still the small matter of his wages and signing- on bonus for Madrid to cover.

Here’s the deal that Mbappe’s team have been able to extract from the Spanish giants.

The tiresome sagas surroundin­g Mbappe’s contractua­l status at PSG have trundled along since 2021.

That summer, PSG chairman Nasser Al- Khelaifi made a defiant stance on Mbappe’s future. “I will be clear,” he declared. “Mbappe is going to stay in Paris. We will never sell him and he will never leave on a free ( transfer).” Al- Khelaifi has been forced to continuall­y adhere to Mbappe’s demands to ensure that he can fulfil his promise to the fans. Madrid - and the rest of the world - thought they had finally extracted Mbappe from Paris in the summer of 2022 when the Frenchman was out of contract. However, Mbappe left Florentino Perez hanging and agreed to a new deal at PSG.

While the shirt that Mbappe held aloft to celebrate the renewal had 2025 on the back, it was a twoyear contract with an option - that could only be exercised by y Mbappe - for another year.

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