Kylian Mbappé will remain at PSG, after the French club rejected the offer made by Real Madrid for the services of the world champion forward in Russia 2018
Paris Saint-Germain sporting director Leonardo considers Real Madrid to have behaved incorrectly and “illegally” in their attempt to sign Kylian Mbappé and has made it clear that the Parisian club has rejected the first offer. move by the white club.
Tuesday ESPN already reported that PSG had rejected an offer of 160 million euros for the footballer. From the Parisian club insisted that Mbappé is not for sale but at the same time a source close to the negotiation slip to ESPN that the Parisian team could change its mind if Madrid raises its offer to 200 million euros.
Leonardo confirms that PSG considers the amount to be insufficient but leaves the door open for the striker to leave if the striker asks to leave and Madrid meets their conditions.
“We consider that the offer is not enough“Leonardo said during a meeting with The Team, Le Parisien, AFP, RMC and Marca.
“I will not confirm figures but it is about 160 million. It’s less than we pay for it [fueron 180 más bonus], But that goes beyond that. It’s the way it’s been done, disrespectfully. We have done everything so that Mbappé is with us and in a week we will not change the plan. Kylian is the center of the project, but he’s not on top. But whether he stays or leaves, it will always be on our terms. If he wants to leave, he leaves, but with our conditions like any other player. We cannot change the plan one week after the market closes. If a player wants to leave, he leaves, but under our conditions. “Leonardo confirmed that Madrid has not yet made a second offer and it lasted with the behavior of the white club in qualifying as “illegal.” Verbally we said no to Madrid. And we have not received another offer from Madrid. We never wanted him to leave, nor did we imagine him, and we made a very important offer and a second one even better for him to renew. The player gave his word as well that he would not leave the PSG free but the strategy seems in the end that it was this one, that he would leave. We have seen a lot of information that they had no money, that there were debts in Madrid. I can’t confirm it but that’s what was said, “added Leonardo.
However, Leonardo admitted his disappointment with Mbappé because the French striker himself is the one who has asked the PSG to let him go to Real Madrid. “Doesn’t that seem right? Why does Madrid make an offer of seeds, “he replied when asked if Mbappé has asked to leave.” If he has told us he wants to leave? You know me well, internal things are internal. I don’t know, it doesn’t matter, we don’t want him to leave and there are a lot of things left inside, “said the manager, who recalled that there is an understanding with the player not to leave for free.
“I have always said this, that he will not go free, we have talked a lot with Mbappé, with him, with his parents, with his environment, we have come a long way with him. We have never opened the door for him, we would have done it before. I know people say I want to sell, but Nasser and I have the same opinion, we have the same opinion [incide], We are not divided. If someone wants to leave, we won’t tell them no, but they will do so under our conditions. We’ll see what happens. “
“The position of the PSG has always been to retain Kylian, to renew. Always, for the past two years, the goal has been and is the same. And it still is. We made a very important offer two months ago at the height of the best players, another makes even less than the last top players, but for me this seems like a strategy of Real Madrid, to have a name of a player of ours. For the past two years, Madrid has behaved incorrectly, illegally, in contact with its environment, unacceptable, not at all correct towards us. And the proof of this strategy is to submit an offer seven days after the end of the market and one year after the end of their contract and it seems a strategy to imply that they have tried everything. It’s not the amount we consider, far from what we think, and we’re not going to sell to a player for less than what we paid at 18 years old. We have to give a pending amount to Monaco and we don’t consider the offer enough. “
Mbappé ends his contract next summer and Leonardo suggested they don’t want him to leave for free but at the same time he assured that Madrid will have to considerably increase their first offer if they want the French striker to end up wearing the white shirt before closing. market.
“For everyone: if someone wants to leave, no one is going to destroy our dream. The club is going to protect itself, that’s what I do. We do not negotiate through the press. If Madrid uses the press for negotiation, this is not our case. I don’t know what Madrid thinks, but he knows we have to pay Monaco [se habla de 35 millones]. There has been a global strategy for two years to get to this point and make a one week offer at the end of the market that they know we are not going to accept and say, well, we have tried and they have not wanted and we will have the right to file-free. Kylian has always made it clear that he will not go free, “Leonardo said.