Daily Mirror

PSG THE NEW WORLD ORDER Paris rich kids close in on £163M Mbappe.. even City, United, Chelsea, Real and Barcelona can’t compete

- BY DARREN LEWIS

KYLIAN MBAPPE is set to join Paris Saint-Germain for £163million in another stunning transfer for the French club.

The young striker’s move from Monaco means that PSG, owned by Oryx Qatar Sports Investment, will have spent a mindblowin­g £362m on two players in the past week to create a new global order in the football transfer business. Last week the club set a new

record by signing Brazilian star Neymar (above) from Barcelona for £199m.

In recent years five clubs have emerged as European superpower­s. Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain, and England’s Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea have cornered the market for the world’s most expensive signings.

Now PSG, funded by their Qatari owners, are smashing their way into that exclusive club and threatenin­g to shatter UEFA’s attempts to impose Financial Fair Play rules.

Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev said: “Mbappe will make the right decision. He has never expressed a wish to leave us. The player needs to move for the sake of sporting reasons.”

Real Madrid had been in talks to buy Mbappe, 18, but even the mighty Spaniards are being brushed aside.

In the wake of Neymar’s transfer last week, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger warned: “Once countries own football clubs everything is possible and it has become difficult to respect Financial Fair Play.”

Oryx Qatar Sports Investment­s has close ties to the Qatar government, which can inject extra funds into PSG through sponsorshi­p deals.

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