La Semana

MBAPPÉ HAS ALREADY SIGNED HIS CONTRACT WITH REAL MADRID

The Frenchman will be a Madrid player and will sign for ve seasons

- By CARLOS CARPIO

Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid have a closed and signed agreement for two weeks by which from July 1 the French striker will become a brand new player of the white team, as MARCA has been able to conDrm. In this way, within 133 days, the most extensive courtst that the world of soccer has experience­d in recent decades will o'cially end. Player and club fuldll their wishes and Dnally unite their destinies leaving behind a path that since the summer of 2017 has experience­d all kinds of vicissitud­es. In recent days one of the most powerful clubs on the soccer scene has probed the possibilit­y of presenting an offer to the still PSG striker, but from the player's environmen­t they have been told not to bother because Kylian has already made a Drm commitment to Real Madrid.

He doesn't want any more offers from PSG

When last Tuesday the soccer player met with the president of the PSG to inform him that on June 30 he would disassocia­te himself from the club, he asked him not to be presented with any new renewal offer. The reason was that he had already stamped his signature on the contract that will link him to Real Madrid for Dve seasons, as they had suspected in Paris for a long time.

That conversati­on took place in an atmosphere of cordiality because since in June last year he made the formal communicat­ion that he would not exercise the optional third season in his contract, Nasser Al Khelaid was aware that his options to convince him again had been greatly reduced. At that point, the Qatari leader was already more interested in his star fuldlling the commitment agreed in the summer to renounce a very important amount, the third term of the loyalty premium, so that he could be reintegrat­ed to the Drst team.

Contact in January

The script of this dednitive chapter in the negotiatio­n has been followed scrupulous­ly both by Real Madrid, which wanted to avoid any slightest irregulari­ty that could give reasons to PSG to protest against UEFA and FIFA, and by the player, aware that after what happened in May 2022 he needed to 'reconcile' with the directors of the Madrid club and especially with its fans. In the Drst days of January, once their contract entered the last six months of duration, from Madrid they contacted Mbappé's entourage to Dnd out if the plan agreed in May of last year was still in force and there were no changes. The answer was positive. When eight months ago he communicat­ed by letter to the Parisian club that he was renouncing the optional third season in his contract, he had already made a Drm decision: his destinatio­n would be Real Madrid.

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